Styptic most useless spell ever?

[greycastle]

After reading the spell, i find it seems to be the most useless spell yet...a Cure minor wounds seems to do the exact same effects, with a bonus of curing 1 point.

Is it just me or is this spell truly as useless as i think?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Well, you can cast Styptic if you're Silenced...

Otherwise, yeah, it's pointless

-Hyp.

 

[Piratecat]

It's even less useful than exploding familiar.

 

[Hypersmurf]

It's even less useful than exploding familiar.

Oooooh...

You know, if that's "Target: One familiar" instead of "Target: Your familiar", I'd carry a wand of it, just in case...

Source?

-Hyp.

 

[Ziggy]

Back to the topic of styptic...

At the Wizard's site they just published this spell;

Hemorrhage
Necromancy
Level: Clr 1
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 2 rounds/level (maximum 5 rounds)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

Your touch inflicts a deep, painful wound that bleeds profusely and refuses to heal. The target takes 1d3 points of damage per round from bleeding until the spell's duration expires. Nonmagical healing neither stops the blood loss nor restores hit points lost from such bleeding. A cure spell restores hit points normally but does not stop the bleeding. A styptic or heal spell both stops the bleeding and restores lost hit points as it normally would.

Hemorrhage is countered by styptic.

So there is at least one spell where styptic can be useful. 3.5 might remove the rule that bleeding is stopped by any cure spell (only a heal), and in this setting styptic suddenly looks more useful.

.Ziggy

 

[Witch Doctor]

Percussion from Song and Silence is pretty worthless as far as crunchiness is concerned. All it does is give you background drums.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Percussion from Song and Silence is pretty worthless as far as crunchiness is concerned. All it does is give you background drums.

At least that's useful flavour.

By 3.0 Rules at least, Styptic didn't even have any flavour that CMiW didn't already cover...

-Hyp.

 

[Witch Doctor]

But isn't judging a spell from 3.5e before all the facts about 3.5e revealed a little inprudent?

 

[Hypersmurf]

But isn't judging a spell from 3.5e before all the facts about 3.5e revealed a little inprudent?

Judging anything about 3.5 is imprudent. But you're not going to stop people doing it

Caliban will chime in with an "I know something you don't know" post about now

-Hyp.

 

[greycastle]

yet i find it hard to believe that in 3.5 they'll change the 'any cure spell heals bleeding damage'. i refuse to believe a cure serious wounds won't stop a minor bleeding wound. Not to mention you'd have to memorize styptic then, as you can't simply 'spontaneously' cast it *if you were good*

Doesn't even add flavour...Hemorage on the other hand i like very much...if only i was evil *sigh*