
The charging is not really an issue though. Tell me how I'm misreading this spell? Or is it actually too powerful when heightened? So 3rd level 2/3-actions is 8d4 so 95% as effective as any AoE, it goes to 12d4 and 107%, then 115%, then 119%, and so on. The above quote reads to me like you add 4d4 to both parts however. If it Heightened in jumps of 2d4 each part, or 4d4 total, it'd scale such that it keeps it's proportional power to other AoE spells. It heightens however much faster than I think it should. You can spend 6 actions to double the damage, but that all seems: good, and cool, and in the bounds of how I expect spells to work. As a second level spell 4d4 is around 70% of the normal damage an AoE spell does. So Inner Radiance Torrent starts out with a good critical failure effect, arguably the best damage type, targets Reflex while on two spell lists that don't do that much.

Quote: Heightened (+1) The initial damage, as well as the additional damage for the 2-round casting time, each increase by 4d4, and the damage to adjacent creatures dealt while in your shining state increases by 1.
