Originally Posted by Zenith
No, because I paralyze with crawler and carabazan grenade/venoms instead of wasting my turn and action on a CC spell that can fail and use a far more limited spell slot instead of casting a chain lightning or fireball.

Hey I made a response thread to split this off so as to not derail this discussion. Suffice to say I ran the numbers, and no, using venoms instead of hold person is not more reliable, and focusing on casting lightning instead of hold person does not result in higher damage output.

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=898836#Post898836

For the response thread. Fair warning it may make folks eyes bleed depending on how much they do or do not love number crunching.