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Barstro
2016-03-18, 09:17 AM
My Inquisitor now has two abilities that may interact, and I just want to verify;

Exploit Weakness
"Whenever the inquisitor scores a critical hit, she ignores any damage reduction the target might have."

Clustered Shots
"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"

If I make a full-attack and one is a critical hit, does the combination...
1) Ignore all damage reduction because all arrows are grouped together and Exploit Weakness comes into play
2) Still have a single amount of damage reduction because only one arrow is allowed to ignore the damage reduction and at least one other arrow still has that damage reduction (Clustered shots capping DR at a single time)?

Arc_knight25
2016-03-18, 10:58 AM
I feel like Clustered Shots takes the priority. For it triggers the moment you begin your full attack.

Lets say for example you have 3 attacks and are attacking something with 10 DR.

You hit with your first attack dealing 3 damage. Your second attack crits dealing lets say 15 and finally your last attack hit dealing only 5 damage.

Your first and second shot don't do enough damage to get through the DR but the crit would put you over with Clustered shots, but since you crit you have no need to worry about the DR for that one shot because of exploit weakness. Make sense?

Exploit Weakness only works on the one attack in the full attack not the whole full attack action.

Florian
2016-03-18, 11:02 AM
Both abilities don´t overlap.
Exploit Weakness works on the single attack that scored the crit. Clustered Shots does not carry over anything from Exploit Weakness, but with a ranged cit, any kind of DR should be moot at that point.

Barstro
2016-03-18, 01:14 PM
If I understand both of you correctly;

Inquisitor attacks three times and magically rolls 11 for damage each time. BBEG has DR 10/-
1) Hit; 11 damage
2) Hit, Crit; 33 damage
3) Hit; 11 damage.

Normal
1) 11-10=1
2) 33-10=23
3) 11-10=1
Net 25

Exploit Weaknesses
1) 11-10=1
2) 33-0=33
3) 11-10=1
Net 33
Or, 55-20 (two DR)=35

Clustered Shot
1) 11
2) 33
3) 11
Net 55-10 (one DR) =45

Clustered Shot AND Exploit Weaknesses
1) 11
2) 33
3) 11
Net 55-10 (one DR) =45

Result is that Exploit Weaknesses has no value with Clustered Shot unless ALL hits are critical (in which case the creature is dead anyway).

Arc_knight25
2016-03-18, 02:27 PM
Correct you got it. No real combo forming between the two of them, but both have their perks.