Acidic Ray (Sp): Starting at 1st level, you can fire an acidic ray as a standard action, targeting any foe within 30 feet as a ranged touch attack. The acidic ray deals 1d6 points of acid damage + 1 for every two sorcerer levels you possess. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.
Does this mean 1d6 and only the +1 bumps up every 2 levels, or does it mean it does 1d6+1 at 1st & 2nd level, 2d6 + 2 @ 4th, etc?
Thanks.
I think only the bonus damage increases every 2 lvls. 1d6+1 1st lvl ; 1d6+2 3rd lvl ; 1d6+3 5th lvl and so on
It deals 1d6 + (level/2) damage.
That's what I was figuring. Am I wrong in thinking that gets to be obsolete very quickly, especially as a spell-like ability that provokes? I guess it's the "you've run out everything else and still can do this" ability?
That is more or less correct - it's not a powerful ability that allows the sorcerer to deal lots of damage. It's an ability that's better than nothing and allows a sorcerer who's out of spells to say 'Hey! I'm not useless!'
That's about it. You'll use it once in a while at low levels. At 20th, 1d6+10 isn't impressive. XD
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Would it be so overpowered if it did stack both the bonus damage as well as the d6's? At level 20, that's only 10d6+10 with an average of 45 points of damage. The tanks are doing more than that with a single crit and have at least four attacks per round. Even the ranger/archer is doing 30+ damage with each arrow and likely firing 6+ times per round. Stacking the d6 damage for the bloodline attacks does seem to be unbalancing. Thoughts?
Would it be so overpowered if it did stack both the bonus damage as well as the d6's? At level 20, that's only 10d6+10 with an average of 45 points of damage. The tanks are doing more than that with a single crit and have at least four attacks per round. Even the ranger/archer is doing 30+ damage with each arrow and likely firing 6+ times per round. Stacking the d6 damage for the bloodline attacks does seem to be unbalancing. Thoughts?
I was wondering originally because this did not seem to stack up some of the other bloodlines, such as those that get progressively cooler claw attacks.
But I think if it did gain damage dice it would go from being under powered to being more powerful than the others?