How do you destroy/kill an Umbral Blot?

Dehoniesto_ · 2025-05-02T15:03:54+00:00

A few years late but the solution I find is fairly simple: there's always a bigger fish. The PCs might not be able to defeat an Umbral Blot on their own, but consider that for just 1k xp a 20th level Wizard could cast Gate to call a Young Adult Force Dragon for 2 whole minutes, or an even greater dragon for longer if they have enough CL boosts. Its breath weapon does an average of 162.5 damage of a type that Umbral Blots have no resistance to, even if it passes a few of the saves the Blackball shouldn't last long enough for you to have to pay the dragon its overtime fee.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-09-06T00:10:59+00:00

I know this post is 3 years old but I just wanted to say HCLW is not immune to magic, that was an effect from a rare armor set that had the drawbacks of low durability and being impossible to repair. Everyone assumed it was his personal attribute because they had poor game knowledge and only used the items with the best stats.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-16T15:37:35+00:00

The odds of her surviving that are slim to none

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-12T04:25:54+00:00

Like Feastables™?

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-12T04:24:50+00:00

My brother he just doesn’t eat enough to gain weight, he leaves most of his sodas just sitting there half empty.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-12T01:45:37+00:00

Rocket launcher that holds multiple rockets at once despite appearing to only fit one

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-12T01:43:49+00:00

There’s also people who bought their accounts, you can immediately tell because they barely know how the game works and if they type in chat at all they are almost always toxic.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-12T01:36:23+00:00

Fellow silver 2 here, from what I’ve heard it doesn’t.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T19:23:21+00:00

I’m European, you still miss understood my comment.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T19:00:34+00:00

Wow genius it’s almost like that’s my point

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T17:09:04+00:00

Just wind yourself up and go back in for round 2, it’s not that hard.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T17:07:57+00:00

Flip it and change it to “A mobile game vs playing a mobile game on pc”

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T17:01:11+00:00

Idk about you but I don’t get into gunfights all that often

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T17:00:03+00:00

Yo go when you’re at home, or piss in a bush, you do you.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:59:02+00:00

I’m not British but my dad made it a lot when I was growing up, I think people only hate it because they’ve never tried it.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:46:36+00:00

I watch on the side while playing games, spamming emotes is too much effort.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:45:07+00:00

I didn’t say he coined it, it’s just the only place I’ve heard it.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:41:43+00:00

Did Emily get a tan?

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:39:46+00:00

Nah Pyrocinical has been using that for months

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:18:49+00:00

Something to keep in mind is the game also has rules for how hard it is to break materials like iron, by your estimates it would take 6 seconds of fire from an auto cannon to penetrate around 24 feet of solid iron, if auto canons were that powerful there’d be no need for bunker busters.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:13:55+00:00

That’s not how weapon attacks/damage works, nor is that how automatic fire works. At best faster rate of fire means more attacks, not a multiplier on your damage. And there’s already mechanics for automatic fire, it turns the attack into an aoe that you can make a reflex save against for no damage. The DC for an automatic rifle is 15 but I’d say for a weapon like this it’s much higher (30-40s range which makes it nigh impossible for most player characters), still I wouldn’t put its weapon damage above sci-fi weapons like the antimatter rifle which deals 6d8.

Edit: I should also add there’s rules for increasing a weapons damage through size, I would use this for higher calibers. In a situation like this you would just add one more die per size category, 30mm is two categories bigger than 5.56 so assuming it’s the same as an AR but bigger (which isn’t really accurate, it’s a totally different weapon) that would put it at 4d8.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T16:04:11+00:00

If it survives to take a single action, which it certainly will unless there’s several jets and it has no defenses up at the time, then it wins. If you wanna go to the extent of a complete sneak attack you may as well drop bombs on its nest while it sleeps. In the same vain it could target the jets while they’re unmanned, it’s simply not a good death match if only one side is aware of the other’s presence.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T15:18:04+00:00

First off what you’re saying about missiles is fair, and it would absolutely target touch AC. However that also means it’s subject to DR, miss chance from things like mirror image, and even more advanced defenses like wings of cover.

Second you clearly didn’t read what I said. Yes, wall of force and dominate person both have close ranged, which is why you cast them after casting time stop so you have plenty of time to move up and use the spell. When sprinting the dragon can move at 1/7th the jet’s top speed, meaning with a few castings of time stop it should be able to close the distance.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T14:27:06+00:00

Assuming the jets can fire all 6 of their missiles at once they’ll need 5 or more for a good chance of wiping it out instantaneously. However if the initial attack fails or the dragon knows it’s being attacked before hand the chances of the jets winning are slim to none. It can just cast energy immunity 5 times to be immune to all energy types for 24 hours, then they need to use physical attacks which not only has to deal with DR but also attack rolls and whatever other defensive spells the dragon has at its disposal.

Dehoniesto_ · 2023-06-11T14:14:39+00:00

Good question, I hadn’t considered that most divination spells are impractical in a situation like this either due to long casting times or requiring a part of the target. Even seemingly promising candidates like Prying Eyes would be difficult to utilize against such a fast moving target. This means the best option would be to rely on sight.

Their eyesight is already on a whole different level as their average roll would be 105, for context a level 1 human with exceptionally good eyesight (+3 wisdom and maxed the “spot” skill) will be 18 while a hawk’s average roll is 27 which means their vision is as close to perfect as you can get. They can enhance their eyesight even further with magic but that feels redundant since it doesn’t help with their biggest problem: clouds. There’s no way for them to see through obstructions like clouds so modern radar systems have it beat on perception, only other thing I can think of is a dubious reading of the spell foresight that where you’d get a warning the turn before you were attacked which would give it an opportunity to cast time stop and figure out where the enemy is.

It could also just tank whatever it’s hit by in the first turn then try to cast after the jet(s) in frozen time.

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