Tactical presence + area attack?

[jorashash]

I apologize if this has already been answered (which it probably has), but in that case this will hopefully have an easy answer.

Warlord with tactical presence and tactical assault. Let's see he has 18 int.

Wizard uses an action point and makes an area attack (say, Scorching Burst), with multiple enemies in the blast radius. Let's say the wizard is level 1 with 18 int.

Does the wizard (assuming no relevant feats):
a) attack each enemy @ +6 for 1d6+8 / each?
b) attack one enemy @ +6 for 1d6+8 and the rest @ +4 for 1d6+8 ?
c) attack one enemy @ +6 for 1d6+8 and the rest @ +4 for 1d6+4?
c) attack one enemy @ +6 for 1d6+8 and the rest @ +6 for 1d6+4?

The basic question is whether tactical assault & presence apply to the whole area attack, or just one attack, and whether tactical assault & presence apply (or don't) in the same situations.

The text suggests to me that tactical assault only applies to one attack, which of course would make it synergistic with area attacks, but I can hope...

 

[Kordeth]

Tactical assault adds to the damage of the attack, which is only rolled once, so yes, Tactical Assault applies to all targets.

Tactical Presence doesn't specify "a single attack roll," so I'm inclined to say it applies to the whole attack.

 

[Nifft]

I'd say yes: +4 extra to all attack rolls.

I'd also say a Ranger using Twin Strike gets the bonus to both attack rolls -- it's not just for area attacks.

Cheers, -- N

 

[jorashash]

Tactical assault adds to the damage of the attack, which is only rolled once, so yes, Tactical Assault applies to all targets.

Tactical Presence doesn't specify "a single attack roll," so I'm inclined to say it applies to the whole attack.

Good call on Assault, forgot about that.

Interesting thing about TP is that Action Surge is worded appropriately to support multiple rolls, but TP is not. Why they didn't make it clearer is strange.

Along those lines...how *should* Tactical Assault apply to multiple-attack actions that roll separately? E.g. Twin Strike.

 

[Nifft]

Along those lines...how *should* Tactical Assault apply to multiple-attack actions that roll separately? E.g. Twin Strike.

(Psst! Area attacks are also rolled separately.)

 

[small pumpkin man]

(Psst! Area attacks are also rolled separately.)

The attack rolls are yes, the damage isn't.

 

[jorashash]

The attack rolls are yes, the damage isn't.

That's what I was getting at. W/ scorching burst, we have multiple attack rolls, 1 dmg roll. w/ twin strike, we have multiple of each. This makes the applicability of the +int to dmg slightly more ambiguous.