Recent content by masteraleph

Best place is probably through the LFG section on the 4e discord

I think you may have missed Escaped Slave (Dragon 390). Pretty lousy rating except for Arena Champion builds, who really want it. And I think excluded for LFR as well.

That's alright, I got an email inviting me to resubscribe! "Your Dungeons & Dragons Insider subscription has recently ended. This could be because your billing information failed to process successfully as an Auto-Renew or because your Manual Renew subscription lapsed. Either way, we wanted to...

On a side note, now that Wizards has announced they're going to be ending the various tools, I've successfully used MwaO's idea (virtualbox + win 10) to install the offline character builder on a Mac.

Essentials classes can PMC, but other than the utility swap (and for some classes, dailies), they don't gain a power- they're just taking empty feats so that they can PMC. Executioner/Berserker is fine, but Executioner|Warlock with Mindbite Scorn is probably better (and Thief may well be a...

Dual Weapon Attack is a phenomenal power on an Avenger who takes Power of Skill to make Overwhelming Strike into a Basic Attack- the Avenger can use Overwhelming Strike as a basic attack, get another attack from DWA, and then use non-standard action powers to continue attacking (such as Fury's...

New update: I'm on Catalina now. If you install the IETab extension onto Chrome, you can use that to access the Character Builder (it runs a remote instance of Internet Explorer, which has Silverlight built in).

Rapid Shot is NOT a Level 1 Attack power- it's a non-leveled attack power. Many of the Essentials strikers- Scouts, Elementalists, etc.- have very powerful at wills to make up for not getting the encounters/dailies from their parent classes, so to prevent poaching by the parent classes, they...

You can't pick Rapid Shot as a Half Elf power. What you can do is pick a regular Ranger power for half elf, then take the feat Archery Mastery to swap it out for Rapid Shot. The CB will allow you to do that once you take Versatile Master to make the ranger power a true at will for you; whether...

1) Note that it doesn't make it a Burst- it makes it up to 9 ranged attacks. 2) RAW, no, you do not need a weapon attack. That's difference between "attack with a weapon" vs. "weapon attack power". Weapons are always weapons, and if used as an implement, they're still weapons (see Weapons as...

Bigger question: MacOS Catalina no longer supports Silverlight at all, because Silverlight is 32 bit only. Is there a workaround?

You shouldn't get messed up too much from monster resistances, since you'll ignore 10 lightning/thunder resistance. I totally think you should stick to one type primarily, and I totally think that lightning/thunder is a really good one to stick with.

First off the bat, Daggermaster was updated in the Class Compendium to only work on Rogue and Daggermaster powers, so it's no longer a good choice for non-rogues (or even for rogues who poach powers from other classes). If you're really committed to expanded crit range, and you can convince...

I keep joining the group from time to time, but always end up being cleaned out- the times for games never work for me, so I don't end up creating characters.

There's a fun one in Madness at Gardmore Abbey, appropriate for upper Heroic adventurers- one Beholder, four minions that can do some teleporting away and therefore aren't necessarily one hit one kill, interesting terrain that does weird thing, and significant plot consequences depending on what...