Dev Imperium

Today as a part of Dragon Magazine issue 364, Wizards released some new illusion based powers for the Wizard. It is nice to see some additional powers with specific flavor for the Wizard who is a bit fragmented in the Player’s Handbook — and since these powers attack an opponent’s Will defense they can be a critical part of a successful party since many tough creatures have deficient Will defenses. Additionally, while these powers don’t deal as much damage as others, they have some very useful additional effects — imposing attack penalties, slowing, knocking prone, immobilizing, and granting combat advantage. Having a party member that can degrade the capabilities of enemies at range thus allowing the melee beaters to do their job more easily will greatly improve your chances of accomplishing multiple milestones per “day”. I’ll probably draw up a wizard that uses some of these powers soon.