Fighter Slayer preview

[Rex Blunder]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Fighter Preview, Part 2)

The Weapon Talent is a +1 bonus to ALL weapon attacks, which is a nice upgrade.

Also,

"You gain a bonus to the damage rolls of weapon attacks. The bonus equals your Dexterity modifier." Pretty strong incentive to put some points into Dex.

 

[ggroy]

This fighter slayer build is a martial striker, instead of a martial defender?

 

[Rex Blunder]

Maybe defender-leaning-towards striker. Which is good: a lot of people who play fighters want to hit things hard, not just coddle the squishy characters.

Note that, as one could have predicted, they have scale proficiency only. Plate is reserved for knights (the defense specialists).

 

[Mouseferatu]

This fighter slayer build is a martial striker, instead of a martial defender?

Judging by the partial preview, I'd say "defender, leaning heavily toward striker." But I could be wrong, of course.

Edit: Ninja'd! But you know, I wouldn't mind if it were a striker. I'd like to see what a (semi-)heavily armored striker looks like.

 

[Aegeri]

Without a mark how does this possibly function as a defender? It's pretty straightforward though at least, especially compared to other essentials classes. The stance that is -2 to hit isn't very worth while, sacrificing accuracy for a minor damage increase is rarely worth it in 4E. Confirmation at least the slayer does use stances. The charge stance is nice.

Not a lot to say really.

Edit: Without a mark this is a striker, not a defender.

 

[OnlineDM]

Well, according to the article it's a striker (though I'm not sure how much the distinction really matters). It's a little odd to break the Class -> Role matching that we've always had until now (some builds of this class are Defenders while this one is a Striker), but I don't think it really matters all that much.

Martial Striker: Fighters such as the slayer use overwhelming force to take down enemies. The slayer’s use of heavy armor and a large amount of hit points allow the slayer to stand in for a defender when the tide of battle requires it.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Well it says striker with defender over tones. But this is good to me, none of my players like playing defenders, even less than a healbot from the old days.

 

[Rex Blunder]

"Berserker's Charge"... "Unfettered Fury"... this slayer guy is practically a barbarian. I picture him looking kind of Viking-y. Maybe something like this...

 

[Mouseferatu]

Martial Striker: Fighters such as the slayer use overwhelming force to take down enemies. The slayer’s use of heavy armor and a large amount of hit points allow the slayer to stand in for a defender when the tide of battle requires it.

Huh. I somehow glossed that.

Well, good. As I said, I like the idea of a steel-wrapped striker.

I'm surprised that they made one class build a different role than the others. I'll need to decide for sure how I feel about that, but my first instinct is that while I wouldn't have suggested it, it doesn't bother me.

 

[ggroy]

This sounds like a partial repudiation of the striker/defender/controller/leader categorizations. Either that, or they're examining classes which don't fit rigidly into these categorizations.