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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4460455" data-attributes="member: 56189">Personally I think that would just be too powerful. Even as it is, it's far more powerful than what it's replacing. But that's just my opinion.Hmm, yeah, perhaps changing it to allow choosing any energy type on the fly? Broadens it's range and from what I gather of energy resistance, it's fairly common for monsters so overall this would be quite useful, especially if you like specialising as a 'fire' mage or 'ice' mage, etc.I don't know, I'm still thinking it's just not that great. Sure, it's nice, but put it into an actual usage perspective. It would only affect the initial attack, so no maximum ongoing damage like with Flaming Sphere, just the first attack, wouldn't affect zone damage (except for the first attacks) and you'd have to decide to use it before casting the spell. Imagine if you cast it and only hit one person in a zone of ten (I've seen this happen, and more often than not, wizards tend to only hit about half the targets)?So it's only doing maximum damage against an average of half the targets. And it's not like wizard damage is huge. As a daily, it's just a nice little boost for when they really need it.I guess you could always do it like the brutal axe and just make it reroll one's or something?A free action, decided before casting the spell, and only one metamagic ability can be added to a spell. I think also probably limiting the feat to make it like a channel divinity thing (multiple choices, only one use) is probably a good idea too. Don't want this to be TOO powerful.</blockquote>

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