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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6622582" data-attributes="member: 6677017">What I mean is that while firebolt can benefit from the sorcerer's Cha mod (or an evoker's Int mod), eldritch blast can benefit from a warlocks Cha mod on each strike.* That's an extra +20 damage compared to +5. So that was the basis of comparison. This spell seems to work wonderfully as long as you only allow the ability mod to work against the same creature once. Your maximum single target damage is going to be quite a bit less than firebolt, and even if you split it against two targets and add the damage together it's still doing less overall damage than firebolt. It's not until you split it to attack 3 creatures that the overall damage slightly exceeds firebolt.Hmm... Now that I compare it to acid splash I begin to wonder if it might actually need to use d8s to keep up with the ability mod only applying once per target.*Provided they took Agonizing Blast, which they probably did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6622582, member: 6677017"] What I mean is that while [I]firebolt[/I] can benefit from the sorcerer's Cha mod (or an evoker's Int mod), [I]eldritch blast[/I] can benefit from a warlocks Cha mod on each strike.* That's an extra +20 damage compared to +5. So that was the basis of comparison. This spell seems to work wonderfully as long as you only allow the ability mod to work against the same creature once. Your maximum single target damage is going to be quite a bit less than [I]firebolt[/I], and even if you split it against two targets and add the damage together it's still doing less overall damage than [I]firebolt[/I]. It's not until you split it to attack 3 creatures that the overall damage slightly exceeds [I]firebolt[/I]. Hmm... Now that I compare it to [I]acid splash[/I] I begin to wonder if it might actually need to use d8s to keep up with the ability mod only applying once per target. *Provided they took Agonizing Blast, which they probably did. [/QUOTE]

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