The new Disintigrate?
Elder-Basilisk
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Maximized? Possibly. 240 points of damage will kill most NPCs if they fail their saves. (Although, against the rare monster with lousy fort saves, it's still not likely to kill it unless the creature is undead).
Empowered--probably not. 183 points of damage on average isn't likely to kill much of anything you'll be fighting when you're casting 8th level spells.
Either way, however, you have to deal with this question: If you can get your opponents to fail a (DC 16+bonus) fort save, why aren't you just casting Wierd, Wail of the Banshee, or Finger of Death (for a DC 17-19+bonus save)? And if you can't get your opponent to fail a fort save, why bother with Disintegrate?
Empowered--probably not. 183 points of damage on average isn't likely to kill much of anything you'll be fighting when you're casting 8th level spells.
Either way, however, you have to deal with this question: If you can get your opponents to fail a (DC 16+bonus) fort save, why aren't you just casting Wierd, Wail of the Banshee, or Finger of Death (for a DC 17-19+bonus save)? And if you can't get your opponent to fail a fort save, why bother with Disintegrate?
Limper said:
Elder-Basilisk
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Re: Re: Re: The new Disintigrate?
Opposition school of Necromancy and Illusion would be a decent reason to empower or maximize Disintegrate. Fighting undead would be another reason. (Although Sunburst and Sunbeam would probably be better, all things considered). Most high CR constructs are immune to nearly all spells though so fighting them wouldn't be a very good reason to metamagic disintegrate.
My point, however, is that characters generally have better options than an empowered or maximized disintegrate. It needs a touch attack, allows a fort save (for next to nothing), and even then may not do enough damage to kill its target. A genuine death spell cuts out two of the ways that the spell can fail (touch attack and hit points) and would have a higher DC to boot.
Opposition school of Necromancy and Illusion would be a decent reason to empower or maximize Disintegrate. Fighting undead would be another reason. (Although Sunburst and Sunbeam would probably be better, all things considered). Most high CR constructs are immune to nearly all spells though so fighting them wouldn't be a very good reason to metamagic disintegrate.
My point, however, is that characters generally have better options than an empowered or maximized disintegrate. It needs a touch attack, allows a fort save (for next to nothing), and even then may not do enough damage to kill its target. A genuine death spell cuts out two of the ways that the spell can fail (touch attack and hit points) and would have a higher DC to boot.
Someone said:
Lord Pendragon
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Re: Re: Re: Re: The new Disintigrate?
*runs away*
And with all that in mind, I don't see why Disintegrate was changed to begin with.Elder-Basilisk said:
*runs away*
(Psi)SeveredHead
Adventurer
Disintegrate was changed since it was blatantly better than Finger of Death. WotC had to either change it's level or change it's effects - and they wanted to change as few spell levels as possible.
