Disintegrate vs Hellfire Ray

[Netzach Sloth]

At caster level 20:

Disintegrate: 40d6 (140 Average)

Hellfire Ray 3 * 15d6 (Average 156)

Disintegrate has a save, while Hellfire Ray doesn't.

Half of Hellfire Ray is not reduced by fire resistance, while, correct me if I'm wrong, Disintegrate isn't reduced at all by resistances.

Am I wrong, or is Hellfire Ray clearly the better spell for a Sorcerer?

[Babbles]

Do the enemies drop loot if disintegrated?

[Finrod]

Each ray (one for disintegrate, one for each ray of hellfire, 3) requires a touch attack and disintegrate has also one save.

So to do all the damage,
disintegrate must succeed on 2 rolls (ranged touch attack and save)
Hellfire needs to succeed on 3 ranged touch attacks to do the maximum.
But if one roll is failed, disintegrate do little damage or no damage, whereas hellfire, even with 2 failed rolls, can still do 15d6 damage

I think I agree that hellfire is better except maybe for targets with fire immunity.

[SkinofIce]

I believe half the damage done by hellfire ray counts as unholy and the other half is fire.

[Netzach Sloth]

Originally posted by Babbles:

Do the enemies drop loot if disintegrated?

They still drop loot; it says so in the spelle description that equiptment is unafected.

[Netzach Sloth]

I just used it, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Hellfire Ray is super bugged; it sneak attacks seperately for the unholly and fire components of the spell.

That's six sneak attacks per cast, at level 19.