Devil's Sight

[The Konrad]

lets me see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 24m, according to the game's (and official 5e) description. Yet I can still be blinded by lvl 2 magic darkness.
Why?
Also how to counter/prevent blindness happening? Where can I get immunity to blinding effects?

[Edstyles]

There is a certain item that gives u immune to blindness.

But now that u mention it yeah i supose u should be able to see in the dark unless you actually get blinded like from a crow pecking on your eye. At least logically speaking that should be the case cause u still need eyes to see in the darkness.

[The Konrad]

After a harrowing 5 hours in the House of Grief I would ironically want a memory loss, giving up that experience and try the whole thing again with Blindness Immunity, this time.
Or with a properly working Devil's Sight for my Warlocks.
May you kindly tell me what item gives immunity to blindness? In Spoilers if necessary.

[Soul in Shadow]

The darkness spell causes the blindness condition to all creatures inside of it. Devils sight lets you see anything concealed by the spell while outside it, but doesn't grant immunity to the blindness

[The Konrad]

I understand the mechanics. If you are telling me this is working as intended, the intentions are (in my not so humble opinion) lost to me.
According to my 5e sources the spell Darkness does not cause blindness. So its a houserule by Larian that basically makes Devil's sight far less valuable than originally intended by 5e.
I disagree with that choice and hope this is more of an oversight or bug.

If anyone thinks otherwise (actually even if you agree with me), please explain to me how do you protect yourself against and/or counter 6 casters who can cast 3 Darkness spells while they can't be blinded, ideally without doing too much cheese?

[n#n#m#]

Originally posted by The Konrad:

If anyone thinks otherwise (actually even if you agree with me), please explain to me how do you protect yourself against and/or counter 6 casters who can cast 3 Darkness spells while they can't be blinded, ideally without doing too much cheese?

There a lot of items that prevent characters from being blinded (for example Eversight ring or Shar's spear of Evening). You can also dispel darkness with Radiance of the Dawn and I'm pretty sure it's not the only spell that allows you to that.

[The Konrad]

Shadowheart dispelled Darkness with Daylight, every turn, for 11 turns.
Not fun, because she only had one action.
Where do I find 4 Eversight rings or 3 similar items?

[[HdF] Almut Grete]

Originally posted by Soul in Shadow:

The darkness spell causes the blindness condition to all creatures inside of it. Devils sight lets you see anything concealed by the spell while outside it, but doesn't grant immunity to the blindness

and inside you will not have disadvantage on melee

actually you use that oin yourslef a lot if you are a melee warlock or something the like

[Musica]

Devil sight should absolutely let you see through darkness (both normal and magical).
Having devil sight and casting darkness around you and your enemies is a common cheese strat in dnd 5e to always give yourself advantage and enemies disadvantage... the fact that it does not work like that here must be a bug as I don't see what is the purpose of devils sight then.

Furthermore, the whole thing of darkness and dispelling it is kinda useless as you waste an action and a spellslot to remove it just to have it casted again the turn after while spells like sunlight/darkness should dispell each other only if the spell casted after the previous is a "stronger" spell (always following dnd 5e rules). For example, sunlight casted with a lvl 5 spellslot can't be dispelled by a darkness 2 and viceversa.

[a.out]

Originally posted by The Konrad:

lets me see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 24m, according to the game's (and official 5e) description. Yet I can still be blinded by lvl 2 magic darkness.
Why?
Also how to counter/prevent blindness happening? Where can I get immunity to blinding effects?

My Warlock is completely immune to the level 2 Darkness spell.

[The Konrad]

Are you sure about that?
Because my Warlock (with the Pact-Weapon: Lathanders Blood that radiates the Morninglords light which protects from Shar's Curse pretty well) gets blinded by darkness repeatedly.

[a.out]

Originally posted by The Konrad:

Are you sure about that?
Because my Warlock (with the Pact-Weapon: Lathanders Blood that radiates the Morninglords light which protects from Shar's Curse pretty well) gets blinded by darkness repeatedly.

Yes I am sure. That's what I build him around and it works fine. No disadvantage and he can shoot in and out normally.

[The Konrad]

Oh, they fixed that and I didn't even realised it.
Great. I stand corrected and wouldn't have noticed.
3 more players to go, that need this feature.

Multiclass everyone into LVL 2 Warlocks just for this fight?
It's 200 Gold pieces Each, seems like a steal.

[Noctoculus]

You can also cast darkness on an existing daylight spell. They both remain and you become blinded.

[The Konrad]

Would Daylight + Darkness spell turn into a strobe disco effect?
That's blinding for sure.

Why is there no hierarchy with spells?
Dispelling Darkness everyturn with a higher level Spell doesn't feel right.

[Jack]

Originally posted by The Konrad:

lets me see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 24m, according to the game's (and official 5e) description. Yet I can still be blinded by lvl 2 magic darkness.
Why?
Also how to counter/prevent blindness happening? Where can I get immunity to blinding effects?

You are playing the latest patch?

*Update 4 now allows Warlocks to see inside Darkness if they have Devil's Sight and protects them against the Blindness it causes.