General Discussion

[Jarre]

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I.e. next time you buy spells choose something other than fire including bolts so you don't heal the enemies your attack!

[Armando]

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SOOO.... what did i miss? Cid? detailed notes?

The group filled me in on what I missed. Before going into the foundry I suggested we have another mock fight in the training grounds since it'd been over a month since I last played. We challenged a minotaur to a fight, but as soon as its turn came up the ground underneath it erupted and two fire bats, a hell hound, and a fire elemental came out of the rift. Me and Jarre were enlarged, the group had a hard time using your character, and I remembered I have Create Water halfway through the fight.

[Mezlo]

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LOL at Yyg! He created that scenario strictly to fuck with me... Glad i missed it! LOL!!!

[Firewind]

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We did managed to create a Flanking Chain at one point which was hilarious. Two Rogues and a giant Fighter getting flanking bonuses...It was beautiful...

[Yygdrasil]

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It was meant to be a stalemate. You can't hurt them and due to your fire negation cloak... They can't hurt you. Ultimately I wanted the party to figure out that YOU SHOULD BE TANKING.

That didn't happen... And they just let you sit on the back line.

The mobs were dealing between 1d6+2 and 1d8+2 damage. Your cloak negates 10 from each hit.

The encounter was meant to empower you into a battle role you normally wouldn't take... the tank.

[Firewind]

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To be fair I DID activate the robe but then...

Armando busted out the Create Water spells.
Jarre remembered about Combat Patrol and we realised that he could win a battle of attrition with his ridiculous HP total, especially with Theron standing right within Channel Energy range.
We realised that we had two Enlarge Person spells in the party which meant Giant Theron and Giant Jarre.
Cid and I were mobile enough to get the bats into a "Flanking Chain" of sorts with Lili, Vince and Giant Jarre all getting a flanking bonus against something.

Not the way that Yyg intended us to win the fight but we still won. And we won without using a single Offensive Spell, which is something Yyg seemed to be grumpy about when we kept using Mezlo as a glorified BLM, and the rest to clean up the stuff that survived the Fireballs. So if anything we proved that we can win a fight without relying on the Arcane Spellcasters Blasting rather then using spells that benefit other party members.

But seriously Mezlo, buy some regular bolts next time we can, you having only elemental bolts made things complicated. Also it would be hilarious to see Heroism put on a Giant Jarre some time.

[Armando]

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I wasn't aware that all the monsters were dealing elemental damage exclusively. I knew the Fire Elemental was throwing fireballs so no big surprise there, but I figured the others were still capable of physical damage.

EDIT:

But seriously Mezlo, buy some regular bolts next time we can, you having only elemental bolts made things complicated.

Also consider Resist Energy/Resist Energy Communal in case we run into other fire mobs. I'm preparing one instance of Resist Energy but that only covers one of us.

[Firewind]

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I wasn't aware that all the monsters were dealing elemental damage exclusively. I knew the Fire Elemental was throwing fireballs so no big surprise there, but I figured the others were still capable of physical damage.

This too. The Bats seemed to be dealing exclusively physical damage.

[Mezlo]

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But seriously Mezlo, buy some regular bolts next time we can, you having only elemental bolts made things complicated. Also it would be hilarious to see Heroism put on a Giant Jarre some time.

I buy regular bolts and then i canst fire arrow which has them add 1d6 to them. If i were shooting at them with gravity bow adn the 1d6 fire damage would heal the mob, I would still damage the mob. The damage roll would be 2d8-1d6. Sooo... still more damage than any of the thief's regular attacks... And i will always have fire arrows, how many times do you think we are going to run into all fire mobs???

[cidbahamut]

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I thought you got your fire infused bolts from Lord Oran.

[Mezlo]

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I've already gone through those, that was a while ago...

[Jarre]

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Well whatever you can't carry mezlo, theirs always room in my pack to store

[Firewind]

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I've already gone through those, that was a while ago...

Your character sheet still says you're doing +1d6 Fire damage from fire bolts

[Mezlo]

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from my fire arrow spell

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I'm at work and cant see my sheet, I'm just going off memory...

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either way, the damage would still be 2d8 - 1d6, whether i had the fire bolts from Lord Oran or the fire bolts from my spell...

[Firewind]

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I think I worked out everyone's true alignment and would like to request a motion to get everyone's character sheets changed accordingly:

Jarre: Chaotic New
Lili: Chaotic Greedy
Mezlo: Arrogant Evil
Theron: Luchadore Good
Vince: True Paranoid