[CF-Devel] Divine shock, et al.

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David McIlwraith wrote:
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      It has come to my attention that divine shock is a pitifully weak spell. At
     
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      level 15, I am virtually unable to kill even basic creatures, such as
     
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      skeletons, with it. Despite the fact it is a "level 1" praying spell, level
     
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      12-13 (approx.) is required to obtain it from Sorig. By comparison,
     
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      banishment, which is denied to Sorig followers, is far more powerful. Given
     
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      that god-given spells are meant to be more powerful -- due to their
     
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      rarity -- irrespective of level, the wc -30 it has been assigned on poof's
     
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      request is still too low. Moreover, it was once far more powerful again; the
     
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      reduction in power has been severe and quite noticable. The sparseness of
     
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      spells given by Sorig is another contributing factor; thus, I propose a
     
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      change of the wc of the archetype for divine_shock to -45. Attached is a
     
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      patch. Banishment's wc is -40.
     
     
  wc is only relevant for it actually hitting the target.  Is that so much the 
problem, vs it not doing enough damage/lasting long enough/etc?

  It may very well be that the change to make is to increase the dam, or 
decrease teh dam_modifier value so that damage goes up faster.  At least at low 
levels, I can't see a wc of -30 vs -40 being all significant (creatures that low 
aren't going to have that low an ac anyays).  So I think changing the wc isn't 
likely to make any signficant improvement for the spell.




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