me, lying on the floor staring at the ceiling with an uncorked bottle of wine nearby: okay but sure mage slayer made cerrit scary, but that's only because cerrit is a melee fighter. mage slayer is pointless if you're a ranged combatant—you need to be in melee range for it to be beneficial. this doesn't deny the genuine threat of a rogue ranged combatant to even a wizard as beefy as laerryn. if you can't see her, she still gets significant sneak attack against you and your go-to dex based AOEs are functionally useless due to a mix of reliable talent and evasion. and her stealth bonus is super beefed up also due to reliable talent, making it very difficult to spot her, increasing chances of a debilitating sneak attack. so you can't spot her, you can barely hit her, and if you do manage to find her and hit her with a direct spell attack, she can still halve the damage with uncanny dodge, hide, and then hit your ass AGAIN. you can't even reverse gravity on veth—it's a dex save that she auto beats with reliable talent. therefore a high level rogue, with or without mage slayer is still a threat to any wizard and laerryn probably should be scared of a fight with veth—



















