Trusted Spell casting + Hexblade

[Larrin]

So ,a hexblade get one encounter power that they get multiple uses of and Trusted Spellcasting says:

Choose one arcane encounter attack power that you know and that does not already deal damage on a miss. That power now deals half damage on a miss.

By taking this feat, do each of my multiple uses of my Hexblade encounter now do half damage on a miss?

I sure think so! It doesn't seem tooooo powerful, and its good fun for my hexblade. Anyone have comments or objections?

 

[aurance]

Sure looks like it.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Parsing the wording, sure, assuming the power in question says 'Attack' and 'Encounter' and has the 'Arcane' keyword.

But, that feat was written for Arcane Power long before there was any inkling that there might someday be Arcanists who could take the same Encounter Attack Power more than once (since that was strictly forbidden). However, there were already ways for Archanists, especially at Epic, to get /back/ expended Encounter powers, so the possibility of the power being used more than once in the same encounter should have been considered.

Given those considerations, a DM might want to think about it and make a ruling, rather than just going with the letter of the rule.

 

[storm_wolf]

Considering it's an epic tier feat, it shouldn't be too unbalancing overall.

 

[BobTheNob]

Another way to think of it is this. the hexblade is railroaded in terms of encounter power selection...that is a loss of (potential) power compared to pre-essentials design.

Here is the payback...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sacrifice to Caiphon should work for Hexblades, too, right?