Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

Tekill wrote:And on another note going off topic for some comical relief- can someone explain in detail what kind of karate chop the monks use to deflect an Eldritch blast??

i think and would need confirmation, but i think deflect arrows only applies if you use gloves (maybe anything) that increase AB/EB.

If the caster has a weapon in his hands then the RTAs can be deflected, if you fight monks or anything with deflect arrow then do it without anything in your hands (gloves included indeed I think).

Oh yeah plus 10...that math seems to make more sense.
OP stated plus 15 - it threw me off.
My dc are currently 24.

10
ESL (effective spell level) +6
CHR +7
=23....not sure how I get the last +1.

So fienish power is not adding plus 1 to dcs?
So ability focus invocation is not adding plus 2 to dcs?

Sorry aaron22, I did'nt quite understand you, regarding you last post. I was making a (bad) joke about how the monks deflect arrows ability also deflects blasts. My gloves give +4 deflection AC and I either hold a shield or nothing. During my last duel with a monk he was able to deflect my blasts. Although it was half the time. I can blast once per round. The monk can deflect once per round. But my blast would only be deflected every send round for some reason.

I also brought up overcoming spell resistance as well. I was worried that warlocks blasts were not counting caster levels, the same way regular spells do in overcoming spell resistance,
I found recently while dueling, that someone with the spell resistance spell was able to block most of my blasts. He was higher level than my lock- which must have tipped the balance in getting my blasts to penetrate, so I suppose that could explain a thing or two.
If I had an assay resistance scroll, would it work with my blasts?

Is Warlock level and Spell Penetration Feats STILL HALVED when placed against Spell Resistance?

@ Tekill, what is your caster level ? If it's something between 23 and 25 then that +1 should come from epic caster bonus (+1 at CL 23, +2 at CL 26, +3 CL 29, etc). Otherwise perhaps you have spellcasting prodigy, which modifies your effective CHA score and would give you +1 DC.

Regarding assay resistance it gives you +10 bonus to beat SR so : probably, you can also combine assay resistance and mordenkainen (which gives an SR penalty to the target even if it fails to dispel the eventual spell resistance spell).

@ Steve : doubtful, I'll look at the code when I can but if that was the case drows would be immune to warlocks and I think that would be known

Well I am cl 22 with practiced invoker....so that would be 25 (my current level). So I think that the epic caster bonus would explains the extra +1.

Okay so, I have an Eldritch blast feat right now of 11D6 (plus a epic Eldritch blast feat of 2d6). According to Steve's quote that means I should be skipping SR altogether at this point- which I suppose also means I could get rid of Vitriolic blast altogether... I wish!
But unfortunately that is not what is happening. Spell resist is blocking my blasts. From what I understand the info in Steves quote was the way it was before the last fix. Now the blasts should include full CL against SR. I think....
Well, its really good to hear about Mords and Assay, anyways. I will start duel testing it out with opponents SR.
So I will need to figure out what I'm rolling versus my opponents SR...should be: cl plus d20 plus assay....hopefully.

So last question/issue (for now): I'm not too concerned with fey/fiendish power but is Ability focus Eldritch blast and Ability focus Invocation, actually bugged?

I'm pretty sure Steve's quote is straight from the nwn2 wikia however the SR system is customized on BG so it might not be accurate. I can't be more precise for now until I actually read the relevant code.

From the custom changes thread:

"Kaedrins Warlock SR Fix has been applied, solving the Spell Resistance Bug with warlocks"

So there should be some custom code working to fix those SR issues.

- The 10d6 blast bypassing SR is the BASE blast (No essence, shape. Just the feat taken from feat list on the char sheet and put on a quick slot. Better off with vitoric unless acid resistance)
- Spell Penetration helps with warlocks. Couple of items around with that on, if you don't want to take the feat.
- The DC calculation is the same as wizards, they just have more modifers they can add (Epic Focus, PrC class feats)
- Noxious blast is 6, but apply it to a doom and it use the higher esl, ie 8 (why doom is so popular, even least/lessers can have esl 8)
- Ability Focus (Invocations) - I *believe* this doesn't effect blast Dc's as Keardin had a separate feat for that, unless we merged them?
- Lesser / Grt Breach also reduce SR on the target for 1 minute. Useful scrolls for warlocks.

As a side note right now casting heroism onto my Meleelock added +2 to his essence DC, is that a bug?

BigJ

So I tried my 11d6 base Eldritch blast (no essence shape) on the white dragon and it did not bypass spell resistance.

Was there a problem with the feat: Ability Focus (Eldritch Blast)?

So I just levelled - and got to choose a new feat upon levelling. I discovered I could not even find Ability focus (Eldritch Blast) amoung the feats listed. Ability Focus (invocation) was there, but the feat Ability Focus (Eldritch Blast) was not.

Anyone shed some light?