Does Favored Enemy work with Kinetic Blasts?


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Scarab Sages

Says Kinetic Blast counts as a weapon for feat purposes. Does it count as a weapon attack for the purposes of favored enemy (ex)?


It's like anything else that's magic, if it requires an attack roll and deals HP damage, it counts. Wouldn't see why Favored Enemy wouldn't work.

Sczarni

Favored Enemy even works with Rays ^_^

Silver Crusade

As my Aasimar Ranger with Heavenly Radiance happily demonstrates :3

Scarab Sages

Dark Midian wrote:
It's like anything else that's magic, if it requires an attack roll and deals HP damage, it counts. Wouldn't see why Favored Enemy wouldn't work.

Ability says weapon attack and damage rolls. Wasn't sure if spells would qualify.

Scarab Sages

Nefreet wrote:
Favored Enemy even works with Rays ^_^

rays, huh? So for clarity. Favored enemy undead and disrupt undead deals 1d6+2 at first level?


Murdock Mudeater wrote:
Ability says weapon attack and damage rolls. Wasn't sure if spells would qualify.

Any spell that requires an attack roll (whether touch or not) and that does damage, is a weapon-like spell, and will benefit from something that enhances 'weapon' damage, provided it is not more specific like 'melee weapon' or 'manufactured weapon', etc.


Murdock Mudeater wrote:
Nefreet wrote:
Favored Enemy even works with Rays ^_^
rays, huh? So for clarity. Favored enemy undead and disrupt undead deals 1d6+2 at first level?

Well, 2nd level since you have to Multiclass, but yes.

Scarab Sages

Azten wrote:
Murdock Mudeater wrote:
Nefreet wrote:
Favored Enemy even works with Rays ^_^
rays, huh? So for clarity. Favored enemy undead and disrupt undead deals 1d6+2 at first level?
Well, 2nd level since you have to Multiclass, but yes.

1st level can be done. Magical Talent is a trait. Gains a single use of a 0-level spell per day. Certainly not an amazing use of a trait, but if going for favored enemy undead anyway, not terrible.

DeathlessOne wrote:
Murdock Mudeater wrote:
Ability says weapon attack and damage rolls. Wasn't sure if spells would qualify.
Any spell that requires an attack roll (whether touch or not) and that does damage, is a weapon-like spell, and will benefit from something that enhances 'weapon' damage, provided it is not more specific like 'melee weapon' or 'manufactured weapon', etc.

Don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, but got a page reference for this one? Or just a general rules quote? I've always played that Ranger's Favored Enemy (Ex) only works with weapons. Sounds awesome, I'm just having trouble finding a rules basis for this. I didn't think it could add to spell damage or to the attack rolls of spells that cannot be delivered with a weapon attack (like melee touch with unarmed strikes).


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