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The powers are specified as a ranged weapon. You are throwing them. Ergo, they count as ranged powers and you hit with dex instead of str since thats how the power works. It'd be like allowing you to use dex on melee powers, it just don't work for a rangers attacks.

Every ranged attack power for a ranger has 'Dex vs X', as such, the thrown weapon bonuses would be effectively useless. A ranger does IMO benefit more from carrying around a bow instead of a throwing weapon to use while in Melee.

Those could work, but keep in mind they don't scale. While those feats are better in the heroic Tier, they become obsolete. With weapon focus (Heavy blades) in the paragon tier, you gain +2 damage with longswords, scimitars, AND bastard swords. Meanwhile, Eladrin Soldier only gives +2 damage to...

Yep! TWF rangers get a pretty cool ability, its kind of a shame they get such a strong ability when ranged rangers don't get one. This is also what makes scimitar dance so great for rangers. If you use twin strike, even if you miss BOTH times, your still most likely doing 6-10 damage (Depending...

I say during the Heroic Tier, use bastard swords. Sure they cost a feat, but they are superior to any 1h weapon a ranger could use DURING that tier. Once you get to Paragon, you have 2 choices, you can stay with Bastard swords, or retrain the Weapon proficiency to Scimitar dance and Dual wield...

Hrm, I suppose it depends. Most of the time i'm stuck with a standard array (Our DM prefers it over random generation or point buy). So I was stuck wtih 16 str, since I wanted higher dex, a +2 into dex was the only way to get it high. So I suppose it just depends on how you make stats. With...

I should say that I don't see the benefit for a ranger using power attack. You get more damage, sure. But Melee rangers probably don't have a huge str, so they don't get a decent +hit score for melee. Though with Scimitar dance, I imagine that it does become more effect, since every miss your...

I'd have to say the Ranger paths are about equal. TWF has the superior 'ability' by allowing you to wield a 1h weapon as an offhand, regardless of whether its too big or not. This allows a Ranger who goes TWF to do some major damage with say, a pair of bastard swords. Attribute wise, a Dex...