Non elemental blast

[Hogeyhead]

So I'm thinking about making a sorcerer who specializes in battering blast, and that's great, but it targets one creature not an area, and I want to know at least one good blast spell that is not too high level that does not do elemental damage.

The idea behind the character at least at this stage is a sorcerer that specializes in force effects and eschews elemental whatever. The reason I need a good blast spell is I need something when there asre a lot of mooks and my allies expect me to take care of it to some extent being a blasting sorcerer, and swarms. It doesn't need to be great, just good enough, and it doesn't need to be evocation, though that would be preferred.

I looked through the srd, but the non elemental blasts were few and far between, and they tended to be pretty bad, did I miss a decent one?

[mplindustries]

What spell level? Horrid Wilting is non-elemental, would that suffice?

[Rerednaw]

There's not much but here are some force or non-(acid/cold/elect/fire) spells.

Lvl-Spell
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1-Magic Missile (duh) :)
2-Admonishing Ray
3-Aqueous Orb (drowning and control), Battering Blast, Force Punch, Gloomblind(not force, but not elemental), Pellet Blast
4-Resilient Sphere (no damage, but control)
5-Wall of Force (no damage), Wall of Sound (damage, but sonic)

If you can add divine spells to your list, Blade Barrier is force damage.

[Hogeyhead]

horrid wilting would work, but 8 is pretty damn high, I was thinking max level 5.

Also it really needs to be usable against as swarm (horrid wilting is, but spells like magic missile are not)

wall of sound is good, but weak, would it keep out a swarm?

[mplindustries]

Wall of Sound is absolutely amazing and unfair.

Carry a deck of cards (I say this rather than, say, a pouch of caltrops or ball bearings because the exact number of cards in a deck is known).

Drop a wall of sound on the bad guys. Throw/drop the deck of cards at the wall. 104d4 of sonic damage. Enjoy.

This works best if you can fly over the wall, or train a bird or something to bombard with the cards.

[Rerednaw]

Hogeyhead wrote:

horrid wilting would work, but 8 is pretty damn high, I was thinking max level 5.

Also it really needs to be usable against as swarm (horrid wilting is, but spells like magic missile are not)

wall of sound is good, but weak, would it keep out a swarm?

2-Gust of Wind dispels swarms. Otherwise Pellet Swarm being an AoE blast would work quite well, though it is subject to DR.

Wall of Sound would work just as well as Wall of Fire.

[Hogeyhead]

Gust of wind and pellet blast work quite well for my purposes. Thank you very much for your help.

[Kelazan]

Boneshatter is 4th level and does untyped damages.

[Imbicatus]

Sound Burst is not bad for a low level non-elemental blast.

[Rerednaw]

I was going to suggest Sound Burst after I threw in Blade Barrier but since the OP said he's playing a sorcerer...unless there's a way to add it to his list.

[Imbicatus]

Huh I could have sworn it was on a bloodline, but my mistake.

[Benjamin Milarch]

I just was looking at these types of things:

Stone Call (Bludgeoning) Con L2
Diamond Spray (Slashing) Evo L3
Banshee Blast (untyped) Nec L6
Archon's Trumpet (Paralysis) Evo L7
Dragon's Breath (Assorted) Evo L4
Fear (panicked/shaken) Nec L4
Waves of Fatigue (Fatigue) Nec L5
Waves of Exhaustion (Exhaustion) Nec L7

There's a bullet one that I don't remember. It's like diamond spray but worse.

All are non-elemental blasts, but I would also count Dragon's breath because it can be any element in line or cone. The versatility is pretty sweet...

Ben

[The Golux]

Shout is probably too high level to be helpful early enough, but if not, Sonic damage is cool.

[Imbicatus]

Speaking of sonic, Ear Piercing Scream is good.