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Old 15th June 2009, 06:43 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Multiclassing for at-wills

Anyone know what feats I could take (if possible) to obtain an at-will from another class that I can use at-will?

Lemme also say that I don't wish to forgo a paragon path.
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Old 15th June 2009, 07:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Anyone know what feats I could take (if possible) to obtain an at-will from another class that I can use at-will?

Lemme also say that I don't wish to forgo a paragon path.
The means of doing this IS through foregoing a paragon path.
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Half-Elf + Versatile Master allows them to turn their diletante encounter power into an at-will.
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Old 15th June 2009, 07:48 PM   #4 (permalink)
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You could choose an at-will utility :P

But seriously, I think the reason you choose an encounter or daily is that when you multiclass as a ranger, you can only be a ranger 1/fight.
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Half-Elf + Versatile Master allows them to turn their diletante encounter power into an at-will.
Ah, right, that's the other way to do it.
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Anyone know what feats I could take (if possible) to obtain an at-will from another class that I can use at-will?

Lemme also say that I don't wish to forgo a paragon path.
If you mean an at-will attack power, your choices are very limited.

Otherwise:
- Initiate of the Old Faith (MC Druid) allows at-will shape changing
- Spirit Talker (MC Shaman) allows at-will call spirit companion
- Heart of the Blade (MC Swordmage) allows you to use the Swordbond class feature, which I think is essentially at-will.
- Many classes have at-will utility powers (ex. Pass Forward (Fighter); Great Leap (Rogue)) which can be accessed by multi-classing into them and then taking Acolyte Power at level 8.

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Old 16th June 2009, 02:48 AM   #8 (permalink)
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thanks for all the info guys.

Was trying to make heavy blade opportunity more useful, but I figure its not really worth it.
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Old 16th June 2009, 04:25 AM   #9 (permalink)
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You can also get Twofold Pact from Warlock to get an extra at-will.
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Now, that said, I don't think it would be terribly unbalancing to introduce the following paragon feat:

Focused Initiate
Requirement: Level 11+, any multiclass feat
Benefit: Choose a multiclass initiate feat that grants you a power or ability (like Combat Challenge, Sneak Attack, an at-will attack power, or Healing Word). You upgrade the frequency with which you can use the power or ability granted by that feat. You can now use the power as often (at-will, daily, encounter) as that class can normally use. Thus, sneak attack becomes once per round rather than once per encounter and Healing Word becomes twice per encounter.


This feat would be no more powerful (and arguably weaker) than Versatile Master for half-elves.

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Old 16th June 2009, 09:31 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Sadly, it's _far_ more powerful since it lets you stack striker damage or multiple defender types or any of a number of other things.
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Yeah, that is way too good. Aside from the striker damage and defender issues, a way to get 2+/encounter healing at the cost of only 2 feats strikes me as something that would be almost impossible to pass up for most characters.

It really messes with class balance too. People could then just play the strictly most powerful classes and cherry pick necessary features from other classes to fill out group 'roles'.
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Sadly, it's _far_ more powerful since it lets you stack striker damage or multiple defender types or any of a number of other things.
So modify it thusly:

Focused Initiate
Requirement: Level 11+, any multiclass feat that grants an at-will attack power as an encounter attack power.
Benefit: Choose an encounter attack power that you gained from a multiclass initiate feat. You can use that power as an at-will attack power.
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So modify it thusly:

Focused Initiate
Requirement: Level 11+, any multiclass feat that grants an at-will attack power as an encounter attack power.
Benefit: Choose an encounter attack power that you gained from a multiclass initiate feat. You can use that power as an at-will attack power.
If you don't mind me asking, exactly how many choices are there for such a feat? I don't recall any multiclasses off the top of my head (though I have little knowledge of anything beyond the PHB) that grant you an encounter attack power.

Unless, of course, you mean allowing someone to turn another class's encounters into at-wills (via power swap feats). That would be WAY too powerful, since encounters are typically encounters for a reason.
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If you don't mind me asking, exactly how many choices are there for such a feat? I don't recall any multiclasses off the top of my head (though I have little knowledge of anything beyond the PHB) that grant you an encounter attack power.

Unless, of course, you mean allowing someone to turn another class's encounters into at-wills (via power swap feats). That would be WAY too powerful, since encounters are typically encounters for a reason.
I think he's referring to the multiclass feats that allow you to use an at-will attack power from another class as an encounter attack power.

Off the top of my head, that would be the wizard and warlock multiclass feats, but there are probably a few more.
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Off the top of my head, that would be the wizard and warlock multiclass feats, but there are probably a few more.
Yeah there's also the Druid and Invoker multiclass feats.

But with this house rule who would choose paragon multiclassing?

(Then again, who picks paragon multiclassing? I know it never caught my interest...)

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My curent character is doing paragon multi and actually as a half elf, with the Versatile Master, he gets to choose an enounter, utility, and daily from ANY class list.

This feat gives much less than Paragono Multi and could supplement PM because you would be able to have 2/3 first class, 1/3 second class (or 3/4, 1/4 for human) at wills.

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My curent character is doing paragon multi and actually as a half elf, with the Versatile Master, he gets to choose an enounter, utility, and daily from ANY class list.

This feat gives much less than Paragono Multi and could supplement PM because you would be able to have 2/3 first class, 1/3 second class (or 3/4, 1/4 for human) at wills.

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The issue isn't that it's too powerful, IMO. It's that it only benefits a tiny handful of multiclass feats and leaves all those who grant limited class feature access out in the cold. If you're trying to design a feat to boost multiclassing effectiveness, you should try to come up with something that will help any multiclass character, not just the three or four that actually grant an at-will attack as an encounter power.
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The issue isn't that it's too powerful, IMO. It's that it only benefits a tiny handful of multiclass feats and leaves all those who grant limited class feature access out in the cold. If you're trying to design a feat to boost multiclassing effectiveness, you should try to come up with something that will help any multiclass character, not just the three or four that actually grant an at-will attack as an encounter power.
Likely it would require individual feats for each class specific multiclass (similar to the feats from martial power that give extra class features if you paragon multiclass).

OR, it could be another 'power swap' power that effectively let's you retrain one of your at-will attack powers (instead of just giving you an extra at-will attack power). It could even be combined with paragon multiclassing if you didn't want any of your classes normal at-will attack powers. [In the case of a human presicent bard ... being able to get rid of both of everything but jinx shot may not be too bad, getting twin strike from the ranger and either of the artificer's weapon attacks.
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