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If they cleric hits it and grants it Vulnerable Radiant 5 then you hit it for 17. If you hit the creature for 12 points of (untyped) damage with Resist Radiant 15 you do 12 points of damage. That's a synergy at the cost of 2 feats (1 for each) and the situation you describe is pretty rare given the number of creatures out there with resistance to radiant damage (Mithral dragons, Battle Dragons, Angels have it, compendium search doesn't seem to work when I put a wildcard in the search to find the two words next to each other!).Įssentially, you're not doing radiant damage with your weapon attack. Your understanding is correct, and no, it's not cheesy (to me at least). Each rule specifically effects damage, even in similar ways, but they do not reduce the other directly If they cancel/balance each other out its because they effect the same thing: the amount of damage you take. Is this cheesy? Against the spirit of the rules? Cause to me it doesn't feel like that, in fact it feels right in the way the rules are and not an abusive mechanic.Ĭlick to expand.Nowhere in the rules does it say 'Applying Vulnerability less than a resistance of the same type reduces that Resistance by the amount of the vulnerability'.
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That's how i see it happening, if i or another attacks with radiant damage they lose some due to resistance, but if i get the bonus damage due to a radiant vulnerability i get full bonus damage due to my damage not being radiant to begin with. Normal attack -> bonus normal damage from vulnerability -> no reduction as no resistance to normal damage. Radiant attack -> bonus damage from vulnerability -> reduced damage from resistance Radiant vulnerability applied to bad guy with radiant resistance. So from my interpretation of the rules the mob has both the resistance and the vulnerability. To simplify things you could just say he now has resist 10, but resistance and vulnerability are seperate rulings and nothing in the rules say that they cancel each other out like that. Now, the damage i do from that feat is untyped and therefore the same damage as my attacks, either physical or in one case necrotic.Įnter a mob with resist 15, the cleric applies vulnerability 5. My avenger has the Pervase Light feat which does this:īenefit: When you hit a target that has vulnerability to radiant damage with an attack that does not deal radiant damage, you deal extra damage equal to that vulnerability. I started talking in the chat thread about this but figured it needed its own discussion thread created.Ī cleric in my group has powers that create radiant vulnerabilities.