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Illusory Ambush (Arcane, Illusion, Implement, Psychic)

Nice to see it in a real book.

Phantom Bolt (Arcane, Illusion, Implement, Psychic)
Hit: 1d8 + INT mod psychic damage and you slide the target one square.

Hmm, interesting. Can we assume it attacks Will?

Slide 1 is on the low side, though. What are the ways to increase Slide distances? Preferably without having to use a weapon as implement.

storm piller
A crackling column of lightning appears amid your enemies lashing out at any who move near it.
Standard Action Ranged 10
Effect: You conjure a pillar of crackling energy in an unoccupied square within range. The pillar occupies one square and lasts until the end of your next turn. Each enemy that move into a square adjacent takes 1d6 + INT mod lightning damage.

It sure is controllerish, but it also seems really situational. I guess that if your party has better range attacks than the opponents, you might drop a Storm Pillar in their path (cutting off a corridor or a small room, for instance). You can also "lock" an opponent up against a wall. Corridors one-square wide can be cut off completely by a single use of the power.

Forced Movement seem like the way to really add to the damage. Would you deal damage for each square adjacent to the conjuration that's entered? That could rack up quite nicely (especially with a Genasi's Promise of Storm :P ). Really, this is probably the big question on the power - if it's each square, it does look highly useful. If your entire party likes pushing, this will be just lovely.

The Keywords don't seem to be in on the power - surely it's Arcane, Conjuration, and Lightning, at the very least? How much damage you can do with it will depend on whether it has the Implement keyword.

It will be tough for anyone but a human to forego an At Will for this power, and if you do, you have committed hard to making it work. On the other hand, it is tasty for a Stormsoul Genasi to take Thunderwave + Storm Pillar (Thunder and Lightning, yum!).

I kinda like it - it seems like a pretty cerebral power, and your controller features are really weak at low levels. The damage will probably le less and less of a factor at higher levels, unless you base it off of nasty forced movement.

But those 4 powers you listed are physical. Phantom Bolt is illusion and psychic, so it would make sense to attack Will.

Illusionary Ambush is welcome.


Phantom Bolt is ok. Considering that you can get Magic Missile, hold an offhand wand of magic missiles and give it a push 1, that can be easily pumped via Gauntlets/Rings of the ram later on.
MM also is a Ranged Basic Attack, and range of 20, and affected by true strike bracers, and Eagle Eye hat.

Hence, I'd seriously doubt the Bolt would see much action.


Storm Pillar sucks! It is VERY situational. If you win initiative, you will use a big Burst instead anyways. With diagonal movement possible, it hardly slows down a foe much even with good placement.

Besides, by round 2, most foes are already where they want to be anyways. So I don't see this being used much. It is interesting, BUT... you need your at-wills to be VERSATILE. You cannot afford a slot for this thing.

Storm Piller might be the best controller at will now because it doesn't have to hit.