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Hi,
So when I cast Elemental Bolt,does Elemental Escalation mean that I hit 2 creatures I deal the second creature Bolt damage plus an additional 1d10 or is it just 1d10 damage?

Also,its an encounter power but also a free action and it states I can only use it once per round-so can I use it once per round even though its an encounter power and not an at will?

thanks in advance

Sep 24, 2012 -- 8:15PM, Plaguescarred wrote:

1) Each target hit by the Elemental Bolt will take the attack's damage + 1d10 extra damage of the type dealt by the Elemental Bolt. 

2) At 3rd, 7th, and 13th level, you gain an additional use of the Elemental Escalation's power each encounter, but you can still use the power only once per round.

Thank you for the quick reply,on point 1) the Effect line of EE(fire) reads:you can make one additional creature a target of the triggering attack.

Bolt reads Target:One creature hence my confusion.

Point 2) is now clear,thanks.

Elemental Bolt says one creature.  Elemental Escalation says to add an additional target, so you do that, and now there are two creatures targeted.  Note the distance restriction on Elemental Escalation, it's much smaller than Elemental Bolt's range.

All targets of the power that you Escalated take the full damage, the normal plus 1d10.  Can get to be pretty high damage if you use it on some of the burst powers.

EE doesn't do damage, it can't be admixtured.

It can be admixtured regardless of it being able to deal damage. You can admix thunder onto Swordmage Aegis.

Regardless of EE dealing damage, because you added the keyword, the extra damage will be of that type as per the rules for extra damage; the same reason PoS is both Thunder and Lightning (though it's a rather hazy rule)