Freecast

Freecast is a toggleable passive feature and a power available to Partial-Illithids. It allows them to bypass the normal expenditure of spell slots, charges or other similar resource costs for their next chosen  Action, once per Long Rest.

Description

You have discovered a marvellous adaptability within yourself. Spell slots, charges, and similar resource costs for your next action or spell are removed. Refreshes after a Long Rest.

Details

Recharge: Long rest

Toggleable

How to learn

Other ways to learn:

• After becoming a Partial-Illithid, unlock from the illithid power skill tree with a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen after obtaining one of the following:
  •  Shield of Thralls
  •  Mind Sanctuary

Notes

• If an action takes more than one type of resource (e.g., Metamagic Quicken Spell with any spell that is not a cantrip), both costs are removed.
• Prior to Patch 6, this feature did not remove Channel Oath costs.

Bugs

• When fast traveling between areas that require a loading screen (such as between Act 1 and Act 2, or between the Lower City and Rivington), Freecast and many other abilities have their cooldowns reset.
  • This allows for multiple Freecast uses in a day, which can be quite useful for buffs or summons requiring high level spell slots such as  Heroes' Feast,  Planar Ally, and more.
• Freecast can be easily reset by having another character apply a condition (such as  Guidance or  Aura of Protection) on the character seeking to (re)use Freecast.
• Freecast becomes disabled when equipping or unequipping a weapon from the ranged weapon slot. It can be re-enabled by re-equipping a melee weapon.