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This has prob been answered before, but I can't seem to find the solution. What gets resolved first if a caster has Mirror Image and Blur active? Are the Images blurred as well? Or when an attack is made the mischance is only active if it hits the "true" caster?
This has prob been answered before, but I can't seem to find the solution. What gets resolved first if a caster has Mirror Image and Blur active? Are the Images blurred as well? Or when an attack is made the mischance is only active if it hits the "true" caster?
I'd personally go with the side of fewer die rolls; if you bypass the images, roll vs. concealment.
I don't know that this is correct though :/ Its just more sane.
Yes. The images look just like the caster so you have to bypass the misschance from blur also.
I would roll the miss chance then check against images personally.
Mirror Image is a fairly unique spell effect. As such, I don't believe there are much, if any, relevant rulings on the subject in the combat or magic sections of the core rulebook, so this is likely to be a pretty heavily DM-adjudicated question.
Logically, I would approach it like this: if you're about to strike someone with a melee attack, you'll have to pick an image to attack before you actually hit the image in question. Thus, I'd say that you'd roll to see if you hit an image rather than the actual creature first, then apply the blur chance as normal. As to whether or not images get the blur 20% . . . that's another gray area.
The text for the spell states "If the attack is a hit, roll randomly to see whether the selected target is real or a figment. If it is a figment, the figment is destroyed." A hit isn't a hit unless it successfully bypasses a concealment chance, I would think, but, again, this is really just my opinion, as I don't think this is specifically referenced in the rules. Heh, one could argue that the figments are not creatures, and thus cannot gain the benefit of the blur spell. Granted, using this cited line as evidence would also indicate that you roll both hit and concealment before rolling mirror image chance.
In the end, I can tell you that the different situations will end up being fairly similar in regards to your chance to be hit, mathematically speaking.
My advice is to ask your DM to decide how he'd like this to work. :)
lol wow Wraithstrike...looks like I jumped into a "touchy" subject. Thanks for the link, just wasn't sure if it had an "official" order of resolution to it..such as, well blur (or whatever) is a higher level than mirror image so you resolve it first.