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| Spell Information | |
| Spell level : | Innate level: 8, Sorcerer/Wizard: 8, Other: Cleric with Cold domain 9 |
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| School : | Evocation |
| Descriptor(s) : | Cold |
| Components : | Verbal and Somatic |
| Range : | Short |
| Target/Area : | Ray |
| Duration : | Instantaneous |
| Save : | None |
| Spell resistance : | Yes |
Description[]
You must succeed on a ranged touch attack with the ray to deal damage to a target. The ray deals 1d6 points of cold damage per caster level (maximum 25d6).
Notes[]
- As of patch 1.10, polar ray can score a critical on a 20 threat roll.
- With at least 3 levels in Arcane Scholar of Candlekeep this spell can be empowered (treating it as a level 9 spell), causing it to do 38d6 points of damage. On a critical hit, it does a whopping 76d6 points of damage. Against a Red Dragon with 50% cold weakness, this would do a whopping 114d6 points of damage! Since that does an average of 399 points of damage and a red dragon has 361 HP, this is the only spell in the entire game that has a possibility of instantly killing a red dragon out of sheer damage.
External resources[]
- Polar ray on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.