Guiding Bolt

[Cassius71]

Something is wrong with this spell. It misses at 95%, 85%, 80%. It never hits.

[Wokelander]

no

[Zerostalgia]

95% means it can miss.

[Recjawjind]

Law of small numbers
Spell is fine.

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by Cassius71:

Something is wrong with this spell. It misses at 95%, 85%, 80%. It never hits.

When you get one of those misses, check your Combat Log to see what happened.

To do that, open the Combat Log using the button at the bottom right. Find the colored and underlined Guiding Bolt line in the log. Mouse over it and it will pop up a small window with a summary of the combat and what happened.

This should give an indication as to why the spell is failing (so much). :)

Good Luck

[Superlienju]

Every attack has a risk of miss. But it's way too high. You can miss 100% of your attacks. I hate this kind of gameplay. Reminds me of XCom and Shadowrun. This makes the fights last more than necessary and gets on my nerves.

[Kryldost]

Let the flow follow it's course. A miss is a miss, try again later. You get plenty of camp supplies to restore your spellslots as you go. Also levels have a massive impact on the long run. Later on you won't even care if you miss. There will be more annoying mechanics later on to bother you anyway. Like maimed... ♥♥♥♥ maimed.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Superlienju:

Every attack has a risk of miss. But it's way too high. You can miss 100% of your attacks. I hate this kind of gameplay. Reminds me of X-Com and Shadowrun. This makes the fights last more than necessary and gets on my nerves.

Not every attack, a lot of spells always deal damage.

Or high strength maces. Or stuff thrown from above.

[RoboSauce]

Guiding Bolt is the kind of spell you should only cast if you have advantage or something like the bardic inspiration die, especially with a higher level slot. Nice thing is if no one else attacks the enemy you hit using guiding bolt just cast it again on them with advantage, or inflict wounds if you are close. The problem with a lot of cleric spells is that they are a single chance to hit which is not great in any d20 game.

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Superlienju:

Every attack has a risk of miss. But it's way too high. You can miss 100% of your attacks. I hate this kind of gameplay. Reminds me of X-Com and Shadowrun. This makes the fights last more than necessary and gets on my nerves.

You can, but you won't.
If you do, that's a build issue.

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by Cassius71:

Something is wrong with this spell. It misses at 95%, 85%, 80%. It never hits.

And sometimes you'll have a 10% chance and it hits. But you don't complain about those or think anything's weird about it, you just move on.

[0utlaw]

I'm so out of touch with software programming now days, would it be a seed issue? There are no randoms in computers, back in the day if you closed out and restarted and the RNG picked up a new seed it might shade more favorable for you. Depending on how it's programmed the software can shade low, mid or high in ranges for you and get stuck in that shading. Of course the seed could be locked and you're stuck with it too. But that was a few years back, I don't know how it's handled now days.

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by 0utlaw:

I'm so out of touch with software programming now days, would it be a seed issue? There are no randoms in computers, back in the day if you closed out and restarted and the RNG picked up a new seed it might shade more favorable for you. Depending on how it's programmed the software can shade low, mid or high in ranges for you and get stuck in that shading. Of course the seed could be locked and you're stuck with it too. But that was a few years back, I don't know how it's handled now days.

No. It is a 'Bad Rolls Are Remembered. Good Rolls Are Forgotten' issue. Or the OP has Karmic dice turned ON.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

I'm not a fan of leveled spells that can miss - I prefer those with saves for half damage, or one's that can't miss.

[Ancient Toaster]

Originally posted by Cassius71:

Something is wrong with this spell. It misses at 95%, 85%, 80%. It never hits.

I think you confused Guiding Bolt with Sacred Flame.

In almost 300 hours I can count on one hand when I've actually been able to hit an enemy with Sacred Flame.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Guiding Bolt or Guiding Dolt? 🤔