By itself, no, but I'm looking at it through the lens of the feats I would use with it.
Your point about the fighter not being a striker is well made, tho. I've found it difficult to look at 4E in those terms (striker, controller, etc.), but what you say is true. That gives me a new way to...
I'm not unhappy with the rules per se, it's just in this one particular case (a fighter with a really high CON) it seems that to not take an axe and use Brash Strike seems foolish, or, rather, to use a longsword instead of the axe seems foolish. In a game with so many viable choices it just...
So I'm playing a fighter (human) for the first time and it's my 2nd attempt at a 4e character. I've convinced myself that for what I'm trying to do my build is all wrong and I'm a little frustrated with the rules.
I had decided that I wanted to build a guy who would jump in the middle of...