Dehydrate is UNDERRATED - Pathfinder 2E Optimization
Today we will be talking about another underrated spell: Dehydrate! Dehydrate is an excellent AoE spell that deals comparable sustained damage to single-target spells, while also often working better with certain encounters and party compositions than an up-front damage AoE spell like Fireball or Chain Lightning.
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If you enter probability = 0.05, number of trials = 6, and successes = 3, the P greater than or equal to x field will give you the 0.223% number I use in this video.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Start
0:27 Intro
1:07 Ruffling some feathers
1:41 Reading Dehydrate, Fireball, and Chain Lightning
4:13 Scenario setup
6:01 Why not just Chain Lightning?
8:33 Bursts can be better!
11:24 Why Dehydrate?
18:45 Fireball isn't bad! Dehydrate is just underrated.
21:39 Summary
22:11 Outro