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In beta there was an increase in the difficulty in casting defensivly if there were more opponents around while you were attemtping to cast. I no longer see mention of that rule.
As a player I ran my character up next to a caster to try to impede their casting, but once I got there I couldn't find any mention that my presence in addition to the fighter's presence in any way made casting defensively more difficult.
Did I just not look hard enough? Or is it no harder to cast defensively when being attacked by 8 goblins than when being attacked by 1?
Did I just not look hard enough? Or is it no harder to cast defensively when being attacked by 8 goblins than when being attacked by 1?
That rule is gone. Only the Disruptive feat now increases the failure chance of casting defensively. Furthermore, casting defensively is usually a pretty bad deal unless you have certain feats/traits and your spellcasting modifier is maxed out.
A level 17 wizard with a 19 Int has a 55% chance to fail casting 9th level spells (+21 vs DC 33) while casting defensively.
A level 17 wizard with a 28 Int, Combat Casting, and the Focused Mind trait has a 0% chance of failing to cast 9th level spells (+32 vs DC 33) while casting defensively.