Andor
First Post
Aside from wonky math and spells that were broken and weren't truly fixed until late into the edition's life. Polymorph, Flurry of Blows, substandard rangers were all problems from the outset.
Except those weren't problems. One of the design decisions for 3e was to allow sub-optimal choice so that people who gamed the system were rewarded. You may disagree with that design goal but you can't point to it's results and claim they were errors in writing or editing, they were deliberate inclusions. And polymorph did not start out as an enormous problem, it became one as more and more monster books were added to the mix.
Radiant. Unlike flaming and frost weapons, there is no ability to convert the magic item's weapon damage into necrotic damage (only bonus necrotic on a critical hit).
Agreed. Ahh. Except that according to CustServ any blow struck by a flaming or Frost weapon had those keywords, what the powers do when active is convert all damage delt to fire or frost, thus stripping out any other keywords.
No, because the power (Holy Strike) does not have the Necrotic or Psychic keywords, which is the requirement for Dark Fury to work. The weapon does not give the power new keywords.
But on page 55 it say "The other keywords define the fundamental effects of a power. For instance, a power that deals acid damage is an acid effect and thus has the acid keyword."
That seems to state that the keywords follow the damage type and not the other way around. Something cust serve has directly contradicted when discussing the Illusion powers from the Wizard web enhancement. So CustServ and the RAW seem to disagree (nothing new to 4e.)
At very least there is a lack of clarity. At worst you're going to have upset players as you try to tell them that no their feats don't work the way they thought they did after all. And it's a problem that would have been utterly avoided by better writing and examples.
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