Zaran
Adventurer
Ok, I'm running a game with swordmage. It was brought up that the swordmage's interrupt attack only triggers when their marked target hits a target other than the swordmage.
I have a player who thinks that this ability is no where near as good as other defender interrupt powers. He states that with other defenders allies can provoke oppurtunity attacks just so the defender can get in a free strike because the monster will usually jump at the oppurtunity for a free attack. He says that because the swordmage's mark has to hit that it's not worth pulling this tactic.
I believe that while the stated tactic isn't useful, the fact that the swordmage can basically do a fire-and-forget tactic (marking a foe and moving on to another until that marked foe hits an ally) is still useful.
What I am asking from you guys is this: Have you found this ability to be lacking in practice? Are there any tactics that you take advantage of that make up for the reduced usefulness of the interrupt part of their ability?
I've been trying to keep this generic to all 3 builds but the swordmage in the group is of the Aegis of Assault variety.
I have a player who thinks that this ability is no where near as good as other defender interrupt powers. He states that with other defenders allies can provoke oppurtunity attacks just so the defender can get in a free strike because the monster will usually jump at the oppurtunity for a free attack. He says that because the swordmage's mark has to hit that it's not worth pulling this tactic.
I believe that while the stated tactic isn't useful, the fact that the swordmage can basically do a fire-and-forget tactic (marking a foe and moving on to another until that marked foe hits an ally) is still useful.
What I am asking from you guys is this: Have you found this ability to be lacking in practice? Are there any tactics that you take advantage of that make up for the reduced usefulness of the interrupt part of their ability?
I've been trying to keep this generic to all 3 builds but the swordmage in the group is of the Aegis of Assault variety.