1 If its turned on then yes each arrow.
2. I want to say it over comes any way as it is energy damage. If not then yes.
By RAW Clustered Shots only allow you to group damage for DR not energy resistance.
However, with that said it could easily be houseruled that it also clusters the energy resistance.
- Gauss
Damage reduction won't affect the fire damage regardless. But it does not "cluster" and the feat is of no help against energy resistance.
How did you get +3d6 of fire damage per arrow?
I took "my normal 4 die attacks" to mean...his attacks normally used 4 dies.
I took "my normal 4 die attacks" to mean...his attacks normally used 4 dies.
"enemies with resist all elements"
I'm assuming he's arcane pooling up +1d6 of three separate energy types.
Fire damage from each arrow does not stack. In short if you use many shot and each arrow is doing 1d6 fire damage, but the monster has fire resistance/10 then that monster will not take any fire damage.
.... this comes up a few times at my table occasionally because of my fighter archer. let's see what were dealing with here:
clustered shots:
Benefit: When you use a full-attack action to make multiple ranged weapon attacks against the same opponent, total the damage from all hits before applying that opponent’s damage reduction.
Special: If the massive damage optional rule is being used (Core Rulebook 189), that rule applies if the total damage you deal with this feat is equal to or exceeds half the opponent’s full normal hit points (minimum 50 points of damage).
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There is nothing stating a single attack. they are separate attacks, but only damage is totaled. Also there is nothing stating otherwise of adding them up, however I don't believe that that was the intended purpose. At best, it works, at DM's call; if not, so what, can't get everything, although that would be awesome. Gonna need an Faq on this and a lot of other archery stuff as well i'm afraid.
also, they mention, as you can see, the special rules. now, you can take that as two ways, either they allow you to use the feat for energy damage and expanding past the DR, since were now talking about energy resistance, of which there is no mention of ; or e can take it as the dev's saying "we made the feat to deal with only physical damage stuff= DR and massive damage, not magical crap, or anything else, want proof? we even went out of out ready to include the optional damage rules. we purposely ignored core stuff, because we didn't want it, and got an optional rule not only mentioned, but expands to be included with the new feat."
Of course the inquisitor would get 6 bane attacks. Why wouldn't it? It wouldn't be any different if he had clustered shots or not, assuming all hit.
Oh, I see your confusion.
No, you don't just roll once. You roll for each attack. What this feat does is has the GM not subtract out the DR until you've totaled up all the damage. Normally, you'd do, say, 15 damage against a creature with DR 10, and the GM would subtract 10 from that (for 5), and ask about your next arrows damage, assuming it hit. He would then subtract 10 from that as well, continuing this for all arrows that hit.
With this...lovably balanced of a feat...they instead tally up all the damage before applying the DR.
So, if you shot 6 arrows and each one did 15 damage, without this feat, you'd be doing 30 points of damage. With it, you'll be doing 80.
Oh, I see your confusion.
No, you don't just roll once. You roll for each attack. What this feat does is has the GM not subtract out the DR until you've totaled up all the damage. Normally, you'd do, say, 15 damage against a creature with DR 10, and the GM would subtract 10 from that (for 5), and ask about your next arrows damage, assuming it hit. He would then subtract 10 from that as well, continuing this for all arrows that hit.
With this...lovably balanced of a feat...they instead tally up all the damage before applying the DR.
So, if you shot 6 arrows and each one did 15 damage, without this feat, you'd be doing 30 points of damage. With it, you'll be doing 80.
And in this case if the massive damage rules are being used if the target has 160 hp's or less it will have to roll a fort save or die =)
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PSY
No it wouldnt. Its still multiple seperate hits. Clustered shot doesnt change that all it does is affect DR. It affects nothing else.
to PSY850, he made the reference to massive damage rules in his 80 damage example. For massive damage you need a single hit for 50 damage, multiple shots totaling 50+ wont give you massive damage.
There just seemed to be some confusion about what this feat did earlier on. And i wanted to stress all it does is change how DR works nothing more nothing less. Its already borderline OP having it affect Energy specials on the arrows would be silly.
bane would still work, seeing as it says, all damage, for application to DR. too bad it can't be used for when trying to bypass hardness for objects.
.. mojorat, read the feat please. it gives special rules to the massive damage. totaling damage, then applying. if it its more than half, massive damage rules can apply of you use them. do yes, maybe damage is brutal with this. so much so, my DM doesn't use that optional rule, because my archer had clustered shots.
Seeing as how the feat specifically mentions massive damage rules, im pretty sure it affects those too.
You total up all damage, then apply it. That's why it mentions massive damage. You are pooling all your damage into one damage pool.