Tome of Battle is a fantastically well designed book, but it is not a terribly well edited book. But, items that reward + (specific)spell power it overwrote this rule. This means that if you cast a 3 second cast, it will only benefit from 86 of your spell power. This rule is explained to be (Cast time)/3.5 Actual benefit of spell power. Searing heat of over nine thousand degrees tore apart several dozens of the baleful spirits in an. He explains that in vanilla there was a 3.5 second rule in terms of spell power. The total time dedicated to the spell would be 32hrs, and would probably take an average of 4 days to complete. Study/Learn Spell (Wizard Only) - 8hrs, then complete a Spellcraft Check DC 15 + Spell Level 3. If you used a standard action to turn it on, that would make it apply to precisely zero attacks, since with your standard action down you aren’t going to be making any attacks.¹ A single lapse of caution could spell their demise. Complete a Spellcraft Check DC 20 + Spell Level 2.
Ultimately, boosts are defined as swift actions:Ī boost always requires a swift action, usually allowing you to initiate it before unleashing a standard action or a full attack.Īnd searing blade in particular makes absolutely no sense as a standard action, since it provides a bonus on attacks until the end of your turn. So the lack of errata here is not particularly meaningful. It’s still on Wizards’ web site like that, and it’s still really embarrassing. The Tome of Battle errata never gets as far as searing blade-it starts to correct firesnake (a maneuver in desperate need of errata), but instead of indicating what text you are supposed to add to the maneuver, the file’s contents is overwritten by the errata for Complete Mage.