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ZocckCastlestorm 03-04-07, 05:00 PM	1) Dire Volley Type; Fighter Bonus Pre-requisites; Fighter: 14+, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Many Shot, and Ranged Weapon Mastery(Piercing) OR; Fighter:6+ AND Order of the Bow Initiate: 6+, and Feats as above... Effect; This Feat allows the dedicated archer-type to add another ranged attack-per-round at the cost of additional accuracy. By using Volley Feat, the archer may may an additional attack that melee round as a Full-Round Action, but all attacks that round have a - 5 Penalty to hit. Example: Kaleran Farslayer; a Human Fighter:6/Order of the Bow Intitiate:6 with a Dex total of 19 (+ 4 to hit),Strength of 16 (+3 Damage) using a Magic Mighty[+3] Composite Longbow:+ 2 with Point Blank Shot,Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, Weapon Focus&Specialization; Longbow,Alertness,Farshot,Many Shot, Ranged Weapon Mastery(Piercing), Dire Volley. This individual therefore has a +12 BAB, and Hits with the Longbow at +22 Total AB and so Full Round Attacks as follows: +15(-2 is due to using Rapid Shot, the other -5 is Dire Volley)/+15/+15/+10/+5 with an average Damage-Per-Hit of 13.5!
Willie the Duck 03-04-07, 05:27 PM	well, it certainly isn't overpowered. what happens when you include improved rapid shot?
ZocckCastlestorm 03-04-07, 05:38 PM	If you also had Improved Rapid Shot, then you would have no Rapid Shot penalty (-2) , so you would have the following changes to the Example Character; + 17/+ 17/+ 17/+ 12/+ 7 for the Full Round Attack with Dire Volley and Improved Rapid Shot.
ZocckCastlestorm 03-15-07, 11:31 PM	Anyone else? P.E.A.C.H. please:)
Krusk 03-16-07, 02:18 AM	let me make sure i understand it. my bab is normally +20. using this feat i get a 15/10/5/0/-5 attack bonus? Then if i did rapid shot as well it becomes, 13/8/3/-2/-7/-12? improved rapid shot brings it back to 15/10/5/0/-5/-10? If so this feat seems a little on the weak side. -5 to hit is a huge penalty, i would lower it to a -2 to hit. maybe even just extra attack, as this feat has a ton of prereqs. *** if i understood the feat wrong, then maybe it needs clarification, but ignore my comments above. **** instead of order of the bow initiate, i would specify "bow using prestige class 6 at DMs discretion" cause there are a couple of others that might like to make use of this feat.
ZocckCastlestorm 03-16-07, 06:20 PM	Sorry, but I forgot to add that the additional attack is at you highest BAB. The same Character at 20th(10th Fighter/10th Order o.t. Bow) would be as follows: BAB: +20/+15/+10/+5, Dex:22(+6 to hit)[From advancements and Gloves of Cat's Grace (+2), Str:16[Not the biggest priority for most archer-types](+3 Damage), using a Composite Long Bow; + 5 Magic, Mighty[+3], and has the following feats(by 20th);Point Blank Shot,Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, Weapon Focus/Specialization-Long Bow, Alertness, Far Shot, Many Shot, Ranged Weapon Mastery(Piercing),Dire Volley*, Greater Weapon Focus-Long Bow[OBI; 4th]Ranged Disarm, Improved Rapid Shot, Penatrating Shot, and 1 Fighter Bonus Feat. For a Full-Round-Attack Action the attack would look like this; 4 APM from BAB at +20,add +1 APM for Improved Rapid Shot, and + 1 more APM for Dire Volley= 6 Attack Per Melee Round at BAB:20, +6[Dex],+5[Magic Bow],and + 4[Feats] but - 5 on each attack due to Dire Volley; Total = +30/+30/+30/+25/+20/+15 for an Average-Damage-Per-Shot of (+5 [Magic],+ 4 [Feats],+3 [Str] = +12) 16.5 ! At that rate, any target of AC:20 that is between 35'-160' will take 6 hits per round(Attack Roll of 10 each time, + Bonuses= AC Hits of 40,40,40,35,30,& 25) and takes an average Damage of; 99 each round.:cool: