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Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I don't have any human characters simply because I play LFR and have chosen to treat character creation for that campaign with all the seriousness it deserves. Dragonmen as PC! And monsters! And more monsters! And giant freakin' robots! Yeah. This...

It is hosing him if blasting his foes to smithereens has absolutely no effect on the combat. In fact, the controller "killing" minions has a detrimental effect on the outcome, since he has spent an action "killing" minions that he could have spent debuffing a bad guy, or just chipping in his...

And people wonder why everybody wants to play a striker? Maybe because there are a bunch of DMs on here in nearly unanimous agreement that they need to hose controllers.

I don't disagree with either suggestion that Taclord is more useful than Inspiring in a normal game, or that cleric (strength cleric in particular) would be great for a 2 person party. However, the OP said he didn't want to play a cleric, and Taclord is really suboptimal for his party size...

Well, with only one ally, there's less benefit to anything that says "all your allies get +bonus". The tactical warlord powers like Lead the Attack are just made of win, but only if you've got people to take advantage of them. Since you don't like clerics, resourceful warlord may indeed be the...

Played with a sword + shield, plate armor wearing battle rager last weekend. At least at low level, it seemed perfectly viable, and probably better than a weapon talent fighter wit the same stats and build. I pretty much immediately wanted to rebuild my fighter to take advantage of the new rules.

Healer's sash (AV) is an option. Or several healer's sashes. Potions really aren't that good past 4th level. A potion that heals 10 points at the cost of a surge is just nowhere near as efficient as a cleric who, in one round, can heal the equivalent of 4 surges + 2d6 + 3x Wisdom, and that's...

I think you end up with too many eggs in one basket with the sword & board fighter. I'd go with great weapon fighter, some variety of striker (anything will do, really) and a cleric. I agree with the advice to mix a ranged cleric with melee striker, or the other way around. Great weapon...

I really dislike the skill challenge mechanic in general, but one thing that I've noticed even more than usual disappointment with is high complexity diplomatic challenges. 12 successes required, we get to like 6, and we're starting to rehash a bunch of stuff we've already said. At some point...

I've seen it going off a lot more often than that - like multiple times a combat. May depend on your party composition though. Aegis of Assault swordmage seems to make a pretty hot second defender, or with melee strikers. May be less useful as the only defender in front of, for example, a...

Wow, I don't even know where to start. I guess first off, if that's how you were playing 3.X, you were doing it wrong. Fighter was about the only class that didn't have anything interesting to contribute out of combat. That lack of utility for fighters was a flaw, but monks, druids, rogues...

Maybe I wasn't being clear. Both 3.x and 4ed have daily resources for PCs and parties of PCs. In either case, a group can adventure roughly until they've exhausted their daily resources or are in danger of doing so. What 4ed lacks in any form is a way for PCs to, through use consumable items...

Put me in the camp that loathes the healing surge mechanic, for one very big reason - it completely eliminates the ability of the PCs to make contingency plans, or deal with emergencies. When things go horribly wrong I think it's a good thing for the PCs to be able to dip into their bag of...

Don't forget the MM. The orc and kobold powers are pretty spiffy.

I can build a paladin whose personal ethos is a complete disregard for others. She can kill, steal, and betray for personal gain. Her word is meaningless. There's no such thing as "unpaladinlike" in the brave new world of square circles. I bet it was a chaotic evil paladin that exterminated...

What's odd, reading this discussion, is that in my higher level campaigns (played two to 18-19 level and two to 15-16), it's been the melee types dominating in three out of four. The casters drop their efforts on supporting the melee types with buffs, debuffs, healing, positioning and crowd...

Wait, so if Stinking Cloud hits at least one target, it can kill minions, but if it misses all targets, it can't? So an attack that hits at least one target can kill minions? May I then cast a non-zone-creating area attack with a "Miss: half damage" entry on a group of minions, and as long as...

Not only do glass cannons break, they break the whole party. In 3.5/3.0 if you've got one guy mauling the enemy and getting mauled back, you can just keep dumping healing into him. Total healing capacity in the party was the limiting factor for party durability. In 4ed, that doesn't work...

There's a good chance I'm reading it wrong, but a melee cleric multiclassing to fighter for the pit fighter paragon (+Wis to damage) seems pretty good.

I don't know, doesn't seem that high. A paladin can get 8 (plate) + 2 (shield), and +2 reflex (shield). A swordmage can get 3 (hide) + 4 Int (shield) + 4 Int (stat). So the paladin gets 10 AC, 2 Ref, the swordmage 11 AC. Higher levels, figure 14 (plate) +6 (enhancement) + 2 shield for 22 AC...