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Originally posted by Sir Bozak The Damned

What use is the Combat Reflexes feat if you do not gain AoO when someone enters your
controlled space. Before reading the combat sections, I was making entering someone's zone an AoO. It appears only leaving it does. Can someone please explain me the logic behind this ? And how the Combat Reflex is not useless unless you have an extremely long reach...

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Originally posted by madda

Not at all. Stand close to a cleric and a mage. Use your neat AoO when the mage cast a spell and when the cleric tries to heal it.
Or, stand upfront and hit the first creature that passes you in order to flank you or get to the rear, and surprise the next as well.
Best of all, use tactics that forces your enemies to draw AoO, such as tripping or disarming them. Just note that the same creature cannot be AoO more than once a round.

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Originally posted by Malin Lug

Actually the rule of only one AoO on a single creature per round is 3.0. In 3.5 the rule has been clearified to one AoO per incident that provokes one. If a cleric runs past you, you get an AoO, if the same cleric then casts a spell and doesn't cast defensively, you get another AoO.

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Originally posted by Sir Bozak The Damned

The 5` step still leaves them open to an AoO, right ? If I am in his zone, that becomes mine and he leaves it...

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Originally posted by madda

Bozak, just remember that spellcasters can cast spells on the defensive. The concentration check is not too hard for many of them, especially those that take Combat Casting. They can also take a 5' step and then cast it (assuming enough space and not other threats around).

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