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Explorer

• May 26, 2010

• #71

I'd also recommend a few swaparounds. Take Form of Mountain's Thunder as your L5 Daily - it's a solid offensive AND defensive boost, and lets you further benefit from items and feats that give you bonuses while in a guardian form.

I'd also encourage grabbing Weapon Expertise instead of Markings of the Elements. That's a very situational feat, requiring opponents to be dealing elemental damage AND hitting you before it's going to be useful.

Vicious Advantage is nice, but also situational. Good ol' Toughness will give you a bit more of a defensive edge, and can optionally be retrained at Paragon for Enhanced Font of Life for a +1 to saving throws.

 

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Herschel

Adventurer

• May 26, 2010

• #72

Ah, yeah, I missed the 16 STR was pre-racial. The hammer will be fine then, especially with expertise.

 

Thatwackyned

First Post

• May 26, 2010

• #73

Everyone has Weapon Expertise (the +1 to hit), the DM auto adds it in.

 

Thatwackyned

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #74

I have a question about Stoneblessed Path. With the Unusual Reach granting YOUR melee reach by +1, my DM states that it does not apply to a polearm.

Is this true? If not, how can I prove it?

Thank you.

 

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Aulirophile

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #75

Thatwackyned said:

I have a question about Stoneblessed Path. With the Unusual Reach granting YOUR melee reach by +1, my DM states that it does not apply to a polearm.

Is this true? If not, how can I prove it?

Thank you.

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If I can reach out a little over five feet, and I am holding something that reaches a little over five feet, the end of said object is a little over 10 feet away from me. In squares that means I am attacking with reach 2.

Also "Melee" and "Weapon" are different keywords. You'll notice your powers have both. So take your melee reach, add your weapon reach, and now you have reach 3.

Honestly not sure why he'd think a Paragon Path feature isn't completely beneficial.

 

Thatwackyned

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #76

Thanks, I'll pass that on.

Will the Unusual Reach +1 melee + a Polearm + Form of the oaken sentinal = reach +4?

or does Unusual reach not stack with Oaken Sentinal.

 

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Aulirophile

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #77

Thatwackyned said:

Thanks, I'll pass that on.

Will the Unusual Reach +1 melee + a Polearm + Form of the oaken sentinal = reach +4?

or does Unusual reach not stack with Oaken Sentinal.

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Says "increases." It stacks. My Goliath Warden took the Eternal Defender ED and Stoneblessed. He wields a Halberd 1-handed, his base reach is 4 (meaning he can attack up to 4 squares away... there is some debate about whether that should be called reach 3, i.e., three squares in addition to normal melee reach. I find different parts of the rules about reach confusing with one definition but not the other and vice versa).

 

Thatwackyned

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #78

How did you get to Eternal Defender ED as a Warden?

 

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abyssaldeath

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #79

Thatwackyned said:

How did you get to Eternal Defender ED as a Warden?

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Take a multi-class Fighter feat.

 

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Aulirophile

First Post

• Jul 13, 2010

• #80

Specifically I took Battle Awareness (one/encounter when an adjacent enemy shifts or makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target, you can make an MBA against it as an Immediate Interrupt). It makes shifting away dangerous at least once per encounter, and if for some reason I'm not marking something I can still thwack it.