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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9758356" data-attributes="member: 72555">What?  That ability is crazy.  In a multi-creature fight, for an action you get to remove a creature from the fight.  You are now only using concentration to turn a N opponent fight into an N-1 opponent fight, followed by a 1 opponent fight.It is basically banish as a 1st level spell.Maybe I understood how strong it was because I used to play an enchanter in everquest - "mez" was basically that effect.  Two one-monster fights is insanely easier than a two-monster fight.  And while concentration is strong, so is this effect.  The force multiplication is nuts.In a classic 2 creature fight, you focus down one (in say 2 turns), then kill the other (in, say, 2 turns).  You take 6 rounds of monster attacks.If you shut down a monster with this ability, then kill one foe, then kill the other, you now take 4 rounds of monster attacks total.  A 33% reduction in incoming damage.  Plus, the max rate you take damage is significantly reduced, and you can take a breather to set stuff up (everyone patches themselves up, readies an action, you trigger them all right after the enemy's turn, then you all go again), possibly completely nullifying a monster's threat.All for the cost of a 1st level slot and concentration.It is even cheap enough that if things are going poorly, you can drop concentration and use it again mid-fight to save a party member.Hell, against a single foe, you can wait until just before they go, use it, have them lose their turn, then whale on them.</blockquote>

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