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Ah-shahran, level 2 Deva Shaman|Warlord/Invoker Male, 6' 3", 195lb thinking, speaking, yelling, *whispering*, distant, abstracted mumbling, intently focused Ability scores: +2 Wisdom, +2 Charisma or +2 Intelligence Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares. Vision: Normal Languages: Common, choice of two...

I'm working on my build now. If it's not up in the Rogue's Gallery within an hour or so, it'll be up on my next break (3-4 hours later). t~

This looks like fun, and I believe I have the time. I typically check the forums multiple times per day. I'm interested in playing a Shaman or hybrid Shaman|(Artificer/Warlord/Cleric), but I have a few questions before putting an actual build together. You mentioned a couple of house rules...

Not true, actually. You're probably unaware of the outcry over Psionics during 3rd edition, which depended heavily on various feats. The typical battle cry was "FSBNNN"--Feats Should Be Nice, Not Necessary. This is the first instance I'm aware of where feats were termed as taxes, but I...

Those undead abominations must die, of course, but what of the mages? Are we counting them allies? Asterion tightens his grip on his hammer and prepares to move into the room. Mostly posting to give VV my HP and defenses, since he rolled initiative for me. Sorry to be a bit late joining...

For further support that each individual monster takes its own turn, see page 38 of the DMG: "For example, the orc raiders can both move into a flanking position and then both attack with combat advantage. Technically, the first one to move would have to ready its attack until the other one...

If you look closer at OnlineDM's answer, you'll see where he notes that combatants are limited to one immediate action per round, which is more restrictive than the once per combatant turn limit for opportunity actions or free actions that grant attacks. t~

I'd add a decision point that asks "Do I have access to a racial proficiency + damage bonus feat?", in which case take it before Expertise (but take Expertise soon). Also, I disagree on your order of operations when gaining +1 to-hit from the upgrade. In that case, I think you generally want...

Brutal 2 on a single die, or Brutal 1 on two dice (which covers the main superior weapons with Brutal) is an increase of 1 average damage per [W]. That's strictly better than Weapon Focus in heroic tier, and situationally better in later tiers. t~

For weapon using strikers (that actually do [W] damage, so not Monks), I think a superior weapon is almost always a good investment. The sole exception is the Rogue, because his design both restricts his weapon choices and reduces the relative value of high [W]. For defenders, I think a...

Divine Oracle has been stealth nerfed; according to the Compendium, the level 16 feature only applies to Cleric and Divine Oracle attacks. t~ edit: FYI, latest word is that info was incorrectly entered into the Compendium, and the path did not get this errata after all.

Because of the Sentinel. Ok, full explanation. For some reason, they wanted to give the Sentinel the same healing power as the Warpriest, so they removed the Divine keyword from Healing Word. This article represents full confirmation that yes, even for the original Cleric, Healing Word no...

From a pure combat optimization standpoint, your best feat as a Thief is Light Blade Expertise (+1 hit and +1 damage in a single feat), followed by Backstabber (+2 average damage). There aren't a whole lot of interesting feats that boost skills, unfortunately. Multiclassing is a good way to...

Well, if your Dex is only 18-19 at level 12, I'd recommend Blood-Spray Bite. But I'd also wonder why your Dex wasn't at least 20; to have a reasonable AC, you really want to start with a 16-18 Dex and boost it at every level. t~

Well, for starters, to say that a DM can adjust for something is to tacitly admit that there is a problem in need of adjusting. Consequently, I rarely accept "the DM can fix it" as a good solution for a game design or development issue. Moving to the example at hand, if all of the scaling were...

I agree with this, but I also wasn't advocating a charging build. Just within the Fighter power list, Axes and Spears do better on straight damage than Hammers, plus there's the reduced need for Constitution. Still, some groups find even the idea of the Gouge to be cheesy, and in that case...

First, I think you may be misunderstanding Commander's Strike, since it doesn't boost the attack roll at all. It gives a damage bonus only. That said, Warlord's Favor might be a little weak in your party right now, since your striker's encounter power already has a power bonus to the attack...

Actually, this isn't quite true (and I'm not talking about the slight difference on a critical). The greatsword has more impact than the longsword whenever you increase the number of [W] in a damage expression. That is, while it's basically correct that 1d10 = 1d8+1, it is also correct that...

I prefer Blood-Spray Bite in a vacuum, but really it depends on what else you're doing with the character, and what your portion of the party's tactics will entail. BSB helps you group enemies for AoE's (yours or someone else's), force enemies over to your defender and away from any squishy...

Not really. In fact, each Battlemind trigger has a distinctly different timing, and two of them can potentially not happen until very late in the combat. Speed of Thought occurs simultaneous with the beginning of combat, always. Wild Focus must occur during the first round of combat*, but its...