Stacking epic warding DR[]
The "soak" from this feat does not stack with the Epic Damage Reduction Feats, correct? --Terocone July 4, 2010
- It does not, which you can see on the Epic damage reduction page, notes section: This feat stacks with barbarian and dwarven defender damage reduction and separately with monk damage reduction from perfect self, but it does not stack with other sources of damage reduction. It does stack with damage resistance. Praetor7 01:08, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
Creature weapons & DR penetration w/EW[]
Does Epic Warding modify creature weapons while polymorphed in the same manner that Stoneskin does?
For that matter, neither Greater stoneskin nor Premonition contain any notes to this effect... so is it just supposed to be extrapolated that DR penetration works for those improved versions of the same spell? --Iconclast 19:56, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
- Epic warding should, since creature weapons penetrate damage reduction that way (as stated in those two articles, but I do not recall anyone testing epic warding specifically). There is no note for greater stoneskin nor for premonition because those spells can only be cast on the caster (the note under stoneskin is likely aimed more at alerting players to the possibility of buffing a summons of some sort, even though it does apply equally well to polymorphing). Hmmm... maybe the stoneskin note should be reworded so it sounds less like a special attribute of that spell. --The Krit 20:20, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
- With that encouragement, I decided to test it (vanilla v1.69) and, lo and behold, it does work. I made a custom Iron Golem with +20 soak 5 to battle, then shape-changed into its counterpart polymorph as another iron golem. Without EW, the enemy was absorbing the 5. With EW active, the foe soaked nothing. So, it can be deduced that both Greater stoneskin and Premonition work the same way with one small caveat... only EW can be cast while polymorphed. Interesting. ;) --Iconclast 21:43, August 19, 2011 (UTC)