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No, although your attitude makes me wonder. What I meant was, I completely disagree with your statement, and I really doubt I can change your mind. So continuing would just mean we'd keep yelling at each other. I find that rather boring.

We're obviously not going to have any sort of rational argument here. Let's move on.

That, that right there. You're making that up. Sure, it makes sense, but that doesn't make it correct. There are lots of ways they could make proficiency work, and that's just one of them.

I think SAGA did something like that, so it's a distinct possibility. Note that the powers we've seen so far (i.e. the paladin smites) all start with "2x[W]", so you'll probably get a multiplier from some if not most of your powers.

That's pure speculation as well. A number of things have been proposed for that stat, and we just don't know at this point.

If you're going to pretend to not be insulting, you might want to try giving someone the benefit of the doubt. In other words, just pretend, just for a bit, that maybe the reason behind the change is to make the game better. It is, it does, and it's not. What I'm confused by is why you think...

This is total speculation, but I think that a lot of the +damage we had in 3e will turn into +dice in 4e. So instead of 1d8+24, you'll have 4d8+11, or something similar. The probabilities tend more towards the average when you're rolling more dice, so the randomness factor is still small.

Don't forget your powers. The paladin smites all had "2x[W] + Stat", and I can't imagine only the paladin gets double damage on powers. In fact, I suspect that melee style powers will default to "double damage plus stuff", with the really good (high-level) ones doing triple or more. Which feeds...