Rant aside, Fire Storm is kind of just a nothing spell. It's not like there isn’t going to still be a massive area of fire directly on top of the plants. Let's say you decide not to ignite the plants in an area you’re still igniting all of the objects plant adjacent. It isn’t worth the space it takes on the page. Normally I’m all for extra weird goodies that let higher level spells have niche world building applications, but I can’t fathom a reason why this text is attached to this spell and this spell alone. Is being able to occasionally hit one or two extra creatures worth your 7th level slot AND having the spell take up room in your prepared or known spells, even with the damage drop?Īnd then there is the plant clause, which I just have to say, what? What is this text? Why is it here? Do any other fire spells have this text? What is the point, outside of I guess allowing it on the Druid spell list? Which, even then, wildfires and controlled burns historically have had positive environmental effects to my limited understanding, so that doesn’t seem like a particularly compelling reason. This ends up being crazy close to Fireball’s 20 ft. The common patterns for Fire Storm will be 3x3 grids with an extra tacked on or weird snaking areas to hit specifically one or two creatures alongside a group. You’re left with Fire Storm’s two main upsides being the flexibility of area and the ability to not affect plants. Wall of Fire upcast to 7th level is dealing 8d8 damage, which is barely under 7d10, plus it lasts awhile and has some cool applications with forcing movements. You always have to default compare a spell to Fireball if we’re talking about area of effect damage, and while 7d10 is a decent amount of damage, 12d6 damage is more on average from an up-cast Fireball. For something called Fire Storm it just doesn’t FEEL like a massive Fire Storm, you know? Review by Sam West, Twitter: Storm is like the weird love child of Fireball and Wall of Fire, and I’m not sold if it's worth taking over either of the other two.
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