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[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hypnotic Pattern.

FIreball is good, don't get me wrong. AoE damage with absolutely fucked range and radius is hard to argue with.

But Hypnotic Pattern coming off a Bard (due to Cutting/Unsettling Words, and possibly the horrifyingly overpowered Instrument of the Bards) completely destroys any encounter it touches.

It effectively does one of three things:

-At worst, it burns a Legendary Resistance

-Second worst, it wastes several enemy actions as they all need to spend turns waking each other up instead of doing damage

-Likely: Turns any swarm encounter into a bunch of very easy 'party against one mook' fights

-Likely: Allows you to just skip a boss' turn