I’ve personally found great effectiveness using cloud of daggers maybe more than any other spell. Funnelling enemies through a passageway with multiple cloud of daggers cast on the spot is probably my current meta. Then I utilize thunder wave/ black hole to keep the enemies on the other side of the daggers once they make it through.

Another thing if found amazing success with is getting a party to strength 20 as fast as I can, which then I find 90% of enemies can be thrown off cliffs for instant kills. Throwing enemies off cliffs also only requires stealth checks where the body hits the ground and dies.

Lastly there is a fun little cheese strategy I’ve picked up that I don’t see anyone talking about. If you cancel an improvised weapon attack with an NPC before you deal damage, you can move NPC’s without angering anyone.

  • PoetSII@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Keep in mind this is theoretical, so assumes perfect setup + max damage rolls

    Hasted sorcerer attacking a grouping of five enemies

    • action 1: throw a bottle of water at them
    • action 2: twinned spell Chain Lightning
    • initial targets hit once, doubled for wet (80x2=160)
    • each enemy aside from the initial two targets is hit twice, doubled for wet (80x2x3=480)
    • (very) theoretical max damage of 640 for one spell slot and 6 sorc points

    Meta it is not, due to the very specific use-case and the setup required, but it’s a great opener or closer, and I pretty commonly hit +200/250dmg using this. Cleared every single ad in the >!Orin!< fight in one shot this way lol