the Orrery - a Handbook to the Spheres of Power

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Am I missing something on Warrior of Holy Light, or does their pseudo-smite eat two spell points and two standard actions? One standard to make a weapon glow, one standard and one spell point to make it glow brightly, and one spellpoint to gain the benefits of smite.

The only alternative seems to be to run around with a gleaming beacon constantly, moving at half speed so that you can concentrate each round.

(Not that Utterdark Champion smite is per se better, but at least Darkness has much more interesting rider effects.)

The base glow lasts for minutes per level, so is easy to keep up, though maybe not so good for stealth. To not require concentration on the glowing brightly does take a spell point. No extra action needed for the smite, but yes, if starting from nothing you need two standards and two spell points to smite without concentration, which is problematic, though most of the time I expect you to have the glow up and running so it's only one standard and two SP. compared to smite evil's swift this is annoying, but getting more SP is easier than getting more smites (outside of oath of vengeance anyhow). Group smiting later in is nifty though.

Smite evil is vastly superior for a single target, but luminous smite is much better against groups.