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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alamankarazieff" data-source="post: 4686726" data-attributes="member: 17484">I'm going to do something that borders on obscene in these walls, but if we set aside the Magic-style rule lawyering, and get back to the meaning in game of an opportunity attack, what does provoke attacks of opportunity ?Ranged attacks and ranged powers, area attacks and powers (and I don't see any specific reason to think that both are interchangeable), and why so ?Because, as it has been stated since 3ed, you provoke an area of opportunity when you shift your attention to the dangerous psychopath immediately next to you to try to affect something further away on the battlefield. So does mere sustaining provokes area of opportunity ? Nothing in the rule says so, and it seems adequate to think that it doesn't require as much concentration. So what about Freezing cloud or Flaming sphere ? The customer service answers seem to side with my non-strictly-ruly interpretation to bring into the fold the question of intention.Does the wizard participates in the attack of the Flaming Sphere ? Yes, it costs him a standard action, and the attacking is a separate effect of the passive damage received by everyone in the vicinity.For Freezing Cloud, does the wizard have a choice to roll or not roll ? an intention to attack ? No, it happens automatically. It uses the wizard roll and stats, since he is the one who created the thing, but there is no indication in the power that the wizard is actively attacking.I would settle down for a semantic and not grammatical interpretation of the powers based on an active/passive grid about the wizard's action.</blockquote>

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