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[IronyOwl]

Oh. I never seem to have equipped my pendant.

Equip pendant while doing other things.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

If I cast chill, does the effect apply before or after everyone attacks?

Chill if it applies before our attacks.
More frozen burst if chill isn't retroactive to people who posted before me.

Chill applies to every action after you cast it. If you go first, then it will apply to everyone's attacks. Unless someone objects to you going first, you can just do that.

[Virroken]

Did some math. Frozen burst is more beneficial than chill right now (probable), assuming I don't botch the spell and teamkill everyone (also probable). In any case, getting that summoner down is more important than helping everyone else's combat rolls.

Frozen burst on the skeletal demon and his guards.

[IronyOwl]

Dunno, I was pretty underwhelmed by the imp quasit. I guess we could get overwhelmed if we're not careful, or the poison could be nasty.

AoE pounding them sounds like a nice plan, however.

[kilakan]

you were underwhelmed by a creature that could one hit any of us except me,  Or the armored people?

[IronyOwl]

Eh? His poison isn't that bad, is it?

[kilakan]

well according to the wiki, it's basically death, and after my healing I was moderately wounded, I mean with poison and no healing, I'd probably have been critical.

[IronyOwl]

Eh? In D&D, it's just Dex damage, meaning it harms your ability to move around and dodge.

Also, I'm not sure your healing actually kicked in (to heal), though if it did I guess the claws did a bit more damage than I expected. Avoiding the poison was nice, but I don't think it would have been instantly fatal.

[Virroken]

Point is, we don't know what the poison does since he overshot for resistance. We do know the claws deal moderate damage in one strike, which is more than enough reason to not want more of them around.

[IronyOwl]

*poke*

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Patience. Finals week and all that.

[Virroken]

I finished on Thursday. Am getting wasted tonight. Good luck, RNG.

[IronyOwl]

So, in my eternal obsession interest with the party's makeup, I decided to arrange all the characters' skills by virtue of whether they were best, or second or third best out of the group, just looking at the current skill level. While this wasn't especially useful for anything, it did reveal some interesting things, most of which I hadn't noticed earlier.

Spoiler: Meaningless but Interesting (click to show/hide)

Everyone is the best in at least one field, though in Tarran's case (swords) he's tied with Marcus, and my own claim to fame is Novice Blacksmith.

Aarchan and Dunib are fairly unique; they have no skills they're not the best at.

Tarran and Kin are the only ones who have skills they're third-best at by position, but in several cases the position above theirs is tied, making them the third-best person at that skill. Nirur and Marcus (Elementalism) and Davar (Runecrafting) also have third-best skills by this measure.

Everyone except Nirur and Davar has some weapon skill. Everyone with a weapon skill also happens to be the best with at least one weapon, though in Virroken's case this is Wrestling, and Marcus and Tarran are tied for swords.

Aarchan is the best in a whopping six skills, even if four of them are Novice level and mostly noncombat or of questionable utility. Nirur comes in second at four, though again one is a Novice noncombat skill (Diplomancer). Fully half the party has three skills they're best at, but a lot of those skills are tied. Again, that leaves poor Tarran at sharing his best skill with Marcus (Swords), and Davar's only best being Novice Blacksmith.

We have four Necromancers, four Elementalists, three Runecrafters, two of almost everything else, and just one Alchemist and Invoker (both being Aarchan). "Necromancer" in this case means "at least a Novice Necromancer," rather than anything more substantial. Elementalism is only used routinely by two of us, for instance.

So yeah. I found that interesting, dunno what you guys consider noteworthy.

[Dermonster]

Um, I (Dunib) Am the best Demonologist (Fel-Magic) in the group, I think. The only other one is novice.

Edit: Oh wait I think I misread that. You said that we have no skills that we're NOT the best at.

Stupid me.

[kilakan]

hahah YES! I'm the best at all the mostly useless skills!  Though to be honest, with dagger's I've killed 4 npc's, throwing 3, alchemy 2 (but created a ton of useful effects), holy (none, but assisted in a number of deaths)  and I've got to train my medic skill.....  quick someone get hurt!