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Hey ! (sry for my english, im not english speaking).


From Dungeons & Dragons 5 rules.

But when I attack a full hit point unit, I still apply 1D8!
Moreover I have the impression that with the Hunter's Prey (or Marked Prey? i'm not sure about english spell) the effect does not always apply.

Others have the same case?

I had a 90 hour playthrough as a ranger. It sucked. Yes, its broken. Works on object though haha. When it did work, it worked when they were full hp - guessing that damage gets applied first so then the "check" to see if they are full hp is no, so it adds it. for the most part, i very much regretted my 1 shot per turn with nothing really else to do guy. Underdark? Had darkvision, still took huge penalties from enemies being in shadow. Hunters mark? Theyre too far away, but in range of your bow. You cant hunters mark something you can shoot and they both have a range of 60ft. fuuuuuuuuu

Yeah i think the "check" is done after the 1st hit lol ! So you apply anytime this passiv ^^ Easy to fix, isn't it?
But the hunter's mark is too buggy atm imo.

If the random height and light modifiers didnt keep my PC at an average 65% hit rate and bumped it up to the 85%ish it should be (On an AC 14 creature with a +9 to hit that means its a 83 %) and if colossus slayer worked and if i could HM as it should, having but one shot actually would have been decent because the DPR would be pretty good. At level 5, the character is GREAT. As it was though, my rogue was more effective due to sneak attack and for some reason had way better to-hit chances.

+1 weapon maybe ? Dex diff ? Cause +2 of archery on ranger is rly insane^^

We both had +1 weapons, both were at 18 dex. It most likely had something to do with their light, even though both also had darkvision. Him being 10 feet away had some ray of light in the cave I didnt or something. Its just too finicky. If its going to be like that I wanted to be able to hit a button, like shift does with vision, but its a heat map of where you will get the highest chance to hit.

Just chiming in to say what my experience has been with Colossus Slayer. It definitely seems to break the majority of the time if you use Hunter's Mark.

yeah, some issues i noticed with colossus slayer:

1. Colossus slayer applies even when opponent is at full health: it's description states that it doesn't apply when the opponent is at full health.

2. Colossus slayer doesn't apply when using hunter's mark: If you use hunter's mark, you don't get colossus slayer damage.

3. Colossus slayer damage is not added when making off-hand attacks: If your first hit of the round is with your off-hand, you will not get colossus slayer damage. Also, if you make an off-hand attack first, and main hand attack second, colossus slayer won't apply to your main hand attack either. (I was using the Loviatar dagger in offhand that Blesses on successful hits, so I was making my offhand attack first)

4. Colossus slayer damage added to 'knock unconscious': didn't verify this, but if so it makes this Action essentially unavailable to you.

5. Colossus slayer damage doubles during critical hit: don't think this is supposed to be the case?

For me Colossus Slayer works with Hunter's Mark, maybe my Ranger is speshull or something.

I did notice that sometimes rarely Colossus Slayer may fail (or work as intended too in case of full HP targets), but vast majority of the time it nukes things at 100% HP (bug) and does work with Hunter's Mark (not bug).

On a critical hit, you double your dice - any and all dice. Colossus Slayer is 1d6 if I recall, on a crit it should be 2d6

oh, ok -- i wasn't sure if extra damage was supposed to be double as well. does this include things like sneak attack, and bonus damage dice that's added to things like eldritch blast?

I did notice that colossus slayer is riddled with bugs, for example, I made a GWM Ranger with a greatsword, went colossus slayer my +10 to damage from hitting was added to the main attack, and the colossus slayer damage meaning on each hit for a -5 hit penalty I was doing +20 damage. It definitely needs fixing.