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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4496063" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Quite the opposite, actually. Defenders are one of the more popular character choices in my group. I'm currently playing a Swordmage in a campaign where another character is playing a Fighter. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mmmm....maybe in my dramatic hyperbole I gave something of a wrong impression about my case. Defenders can be proactive, they just usually get no particular benefit to being very highly proactive. My swordmage can do a charge attack into a group of enemies just fine, but he can also just walk (or teleport) over to where the biggest cluster of minions is and take them out. I would imagine a barbarian behaving more like the rogues or warlocks I've seen behave: "Nail the squishy." Sneak attacks and eldritch blasts and barrages of arrows. I could see barbarians sprinting, charging, leaping, climbing, and otherwise running up to the squishy more than I could see them distracting something for a few turns. Dodging in and out, not just being the attention whore. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meh. Warlocks deal more damage than fighters. My swordmage is very happy standing in the center of the action and spinning like a top. You are the center of gravity; you are the sun. The striker moves around you like a sattelite working on the outlying critters, running back if they need help. </p><p></p><p>My anecdotal evidence would disagree with yours. My swordmage (an assault swordmage, even!) and my friend's fighter (a two-weapon fighter, even!) are very happy to make small movements and shifts to put them in the middle of things, hacking at everything around the sides. Generally the rest of the party is happy with us there, too, as it means they're not the targets. I can blink around the battlefield, but I'm nowhere near as mobile as the warlock or the rogue or the ranger is. When I go somewhere, I generally stay there until everything around me is dead. </p><p></p><p>I don't envision a barbarian being that <em>still</em> or that <em>passive</em>. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, but they are the ones surrounded in melee on all sides while the strikers run around and nuke the outliers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4496063, member: 2067"] Quite the opposite, actually. Defenders are one of the more popular character choices in my group. I'm currently playing a Swordmage in a campaign where another character is playing a Fighter. Mmmm....maybe in my dramatic hyperbole I gave something of a wrong impression about my case. Defenders can be proactive, they just usually get no particular benefit to being very highly proactive. My swordmage can do a charge attack into a group of enemies just fine, but he can also just walk (or teleport) over to where the biggest cluster of minions is and take them out. I would imagine a barbarian behaving more like the rogues or warlocks I've seen behave: "Nail the squishy." Sneak attacks and eldritch blasts and barrages of arrows. I could see barbarians sprinting, charging, leaping, climbing, and otherwise running up to the squishy more than I could see them distracting something for a few turns. Dodging in and out, not just being the attention whore. ;) Meh. Warlocks deal more damage than fighters. My swordmage is very happy standing in the center of the action and spinning like a top. You are the center of gravity; you are the sun. The striker moves around you like a sattelite working on the outlying critters, running back if they need help. My anecdotal evidence would disagree with yours. My swordmage (an assault swordmage, even!) and my friend's fighter (a two-weapon fighter, even!) are very happy to make small movements and shifts to put them in the middle of things, hacking at everything around the sides. Generally the rest of the party is happy with us there, too, as it means they're not the targets. I can blink around the battlefield, but I'm nowhere near as mobile as the warlock or the rogue or the ranger is. When I go somewhere, I generally stay there until everything around me is dead. I don't envision a barbarian being that [I]still[/I] or that [I]passive[/I]. No, but they are the ones surrounded in melee on all sides while the strikers run around and nuke the outliers. [/QUOTE]
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