Does Mystery Of The Unblinking Flame Have A Usless Ability?


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


The Mystery of the Unblinking Flame for Winding Path Renegade gets an ability at level 8 that hurts people that grapple them. While at first it seems rather neat, unless you fight a lot of enemies that have grab or something, it begins to seems like a bad one on further thought. Basically you have to be grappled by someone else, then you punish them for it. This of course will lead to a quick release. Then you can not use your ability any more. So then, thoughts?


A lot of classes have fairly useless abilities. Unblinking Flame really isn't that much of an anomaly in that regard, but I dispute the idea that taking 2d6 fire would ensure a quick release; lots of things have fire resistance to the point that 2d6 is a joke and even if they don't 2d6 is still mostly a joke.

The level 14 ability would be kinda cool though if it wasn't 1/day.

Edit: Stabbitty has a point. Unblinking Flame is merely a bleh ability, not an actively worthless one.

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You also have the "Grappled" condition when you are the one in control of the grapple, including when the foe is pinned. This ability is most decidedly not useless, because it also works when YOU grapple THEM.


If there is then there's magic items with this same "useless" ability. Shirt of Immolation, which my druid was all to happy to take for flaming pouncing kitty doom. It has a use. You may not have a use for it, so? Don't pick it.

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