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ericthered · 01-02-2018, 09:25 PM

Smite is an area attack. It hits everything in its radius, but it only has the ability to hurt evil supernatural creatures. If you do it next to your vampire buddy, he's going to hurt just like everyone else.

This means it can be dodged. Its hard to do so for two reasons:

1) low signature means not every foe will realize what you're about to bring down on them.

2) area effect means only dodges that move the subject out of the effected area will save them. so either they are at the edge of effect and leap back, or they have a way to dodge more than one yard.

Blink is particularly effective at escaping the effect.

01-02-2018, 09:25 PM	#2
ericthered Hero of Democracy Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: far from the ocean	Re: Divine favor - Smite wrong cost or effect? Smite is an area attack. It hits everything in its radius, but it only has the ability to hurt evil supernatural creatures. If you do it next to your vampire buddy, he's going to hurt just like everyone else. This means it can be dodged. Its hard to do so for two reasons: 1) low signature means not every foe will realize what you're about to bring down on them. 2) area effect means only dodges that move the subject out of the effected area will save them. so either they are at the edge of effect and leap back, or they have a way to dodge more than one yard. Blink is particularly effective at escaping the effect. __________________ Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one!