D&D 4E 4e FAQs on the official help site

[mrtomsmith]

It looked like they flinched. Expect this to come back soon. Is there anyone who did see it who can give us more detail?

 

[Henrix]

Why did I have to create yet another login at Wizards, and why does it say that most of the FAQs are unavailable?

 

[Victim]

Characters get some initial amount of daily item uses based on level (1, 2, or 3) and then an additional 1 per milestone. But each daily item is still once per day; it just keeps from using lots of powers from items.

 

[glass]

a) Heroic PCs can only use 1 daily item ability per day, period, and the additional uses per milestone are meant for higher tier PCs

b) Heroic PCs get 1 daily item ability per milestone, as long as it's from different items (or at least different abilities)

c) Heroic PCs can only use 1 daily magic item per day, but can use its power once per milestone reached

My reading is: You get 1, 2, or 3 depending on your tier. Every milestone adds one to this number. Thus an epic character after one milestone in a day has 4 uses available (less any he has already used, of course).


glass.

 

[glass]

Yay! I try to log in, it tells me the info is invalid. I try to get my password emailed to me, it tells me there is no account for my email. I try to register a new account, it tells me my email is already in their database. Well done.

ISTM that an FAQ is something that should be as readily available as possible -ie, something you shouldn't need a login for (even if it did work!).


glass.

 

[silentounce]

Why did I have to create yet another login at Wizards, and why does it say that most of the FAQs are unavailable?

Because you're impatient.

 

[Torchlyte]

Okay, I thought I knew how this works, but this answer confuses me:



So does that mean:

a) Heroic PCs can only use 1 daily item ability per day, period, and the additional uses per milestone are meant for higher tier PCs

b) Heroic PCs get 1 daily item ability per milestone, as long as it's from different items (or at least different abilities)

c) Heroic PCs can only use 1 daily magic item per day, but can use its power once per milestone reached

???

b is correct. It means that a Heroic character gets to use one item power per day, plus he can use an additional item power each time he hits a milestone.

A Paragon gets two free uses, and an Epic character gets three free uses.

 

[kerbarian]

It looked like they flinched. Expect this to come back soon. Is there anyone who did see it who can give us more detail?

Unfortunately, I didn't copy it down. I do remember that the first question was whether a fighter with 12 str is proficient in scale armor (despite not meeting the feat requirements), and the answer was that yes, the fighter is proficient anyway.

 

[Yaezakura]

So does that mean:

a) Heroic PCs can only use 1 daily item ability per day, period, and the additional uses per milestone are meant for higher tier PCs

b) Heroic PCs get 1 daily item ability per milestone, as long as it's from different items (or at least different abilities)

c) Heroic PCs can only use 1 daily magic item per day, but can use its power once per milestone reached

???

Works like this:

An item with a Daily power can only ever activate that power once per day, period.

Normally, a Heroic Tier character can use 1 Item Daily Power per day.

If the character reaches a milestone, he gains the ability to use 1 additional Item Daily Power. But it would have to come from a second item, as any one item can only ever activate it's daily power once per day.

So for Heroic Tier characters, think of activating magic items as like Action Points: You start with one, but can build up to more. But unlike action points, you can can activate multiple magic items in a single encounter, if you have enough magic item activations saved up (and enough magic items on hand to activate).

 

[Agamon]

Okay, that's what I thought. But you still only get one use per item, right (otherwise, "daily" makes little sense).

Sheesh, it's explained better in the PHB than in the FAQ

Edit: thanks for the ninja answer, Yaezakura