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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5363822" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Sure, Pit Fighter, or Kensai. You don't really need hybrid cheese at all. Just pick up a nice Execution Axe, boost wisdom, toss in the challenge and OA boosting feats and the Axe feats. You can easily be doing striker level damage all the way up. You're a VERY good defender still too, anything that gets next to you and gets marked, forget it they won't dare defy that mark and take a hit, you can be 3 points more accurate on OAs/CC without even trying very hard. A couple hits an encounter with an E-Axe will knock your DPR through the stratosphere. At Epic it isn't hard for the wizard or etc to pick up a nice dominate condition and have enemies run through your zone of death, lol. Then you still have Come and Get It + RoS and other such silliness that is every bit as good as any trick your average striker can come up with.</p><p></p><p>As far as "why wasn't there an actual striker build of fighter before" the reason is simply to do with 4e design. You want to be a melee striker you take ranger or rogue for a class, not fighter. The only thing that was missing before was a non-barbarian two-weapon striker, and it was harder to refluff the barb. So Slayer fills up that one niche pretty well and it is fine if it is a build of fighter, but it really has little to do with fighters and there's no reason to compare it to the PHB fighters. Compare it to the PHB2 barbarian instead, that's the more valid comparison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5363822, member: 82106"] Sure, Pit Fighter, or Kensai. You don't really need hybrid cheese at all. Just pick up a nice Execution Axe, boost wisdom, toss in the challenge and OA boosting feats and the Axe feats. You can easily be doing striker level damage all the way up. You're a VERY good defender still too, anything that gets next to you and gets marked, forget it they won't dare defy that mark and take a hit, you can be 3 points more accurate on OAs/CC without even trying very hard. A couple hits an encounter with an E-Axe will knock your DPR through the stratosphere. At Epic it isn't hard for the wizard or etc to pick up a nice dominate condition and have enemies run through your zone of death, lol. Then you still have Come and Get It + RoS and other such silliness that is every bit as good as any trick your average striker can come up with. As far as "why wasn't there an actual striker build of fighter before" the reason is simply to do with 4e design. You want to be a melee striker you take ranger or rogue for a class, not fighter. The only thing that was missing before was a non-barbarian two-weapon striker, and it was harder to refluff the barb. So Slayer fills up that one niche pretty well and it is fine if it is a build of fighter, but it really has little to do with fighters and there's no reason to compare it to the PHB fighters. Compare it to the PHB2 barbarian instead, that's the more valid comparison. [/QUOTE]
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