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Remember that one of the stated design goals of 4E was to make it tougher for new players to accidentally "gimp" their characters. That effectively means making character optimization simpler. A 3.5 rogue who didn't put a high stat in dex or intelligence was going to be hugely inferior to one...

It's unclear to me why this is surprising anybody - WotC was clear that they were removing Save or Die spells. Relatively few people disagreed with the statement that failing one save (in this edition, one attack versus your defense) and being screwed was not particularly fun. So a "recovery"...

What the hey? Can anybody confirm if this is actually true, or just somebody guessing? -Cross

Honestly, I suspect that it's a balance mechanic. You can justify it however you like - there have been at least 3 solid ways mentioned earlier. But the facts are these: You have 3 strikers, Rogue, Warlock and Ranger. The Warlock is primarily a ranged striker, and the Rogue is primarily a...

It seems as if people are neglecting the obvious: Once the barbarian and the mage are both unconscious, the barbarian -still- has a better chance to survive. He has much more room between where he is now and where he dies than the mage does, assuming they're both equally negative. Thus, he...

I repeat...clerics have an un-diverse, weak spell list from spell levels 1 through 4. They have a mediocre one at 5, and it gets good at higher levels, with spells like Holy Word. I think it's strange that people cite Divine Power, Righteous Might (and at later levels, Holy Word) as evidence...

Zimbel is dead on. I agree with every assessment up there. People often forget that Clerics have a relatively weak low-mid level spell list. -Cross

No worries. The numbers, as they are, favor (if you don't want to go Leap Attack) Greater Weapon Focus, then improved critical (They're really the same, Greater weapon focus is -fractionally- better) -Cross

A few numbers to think of, for a power-attacker. 1.) Keen vs. Improved Crit? Keen is a +1 enchantment bonus. Which is equivalent, to you, as +1 to attack and +1 to damage, which is the same as +3 to damage (Power attacking with a 2-handed weapon). So you ought to ask yourself - is a feat...

Every argument out there for clerics being overpowered which I have heard involves the spell Divine Power. Most of them also involve Righteous Might. Without them, the cleric is a mediocre melee beast, and takes a good deal of buffing to get there. It occurs to this player that perhaps the...

I might be an idiot, Mistwell...but how does Heighten Spell help you get through spell resistance? -Cross (Thought your "Beat SR" check was purely dependent on your caster level, not spell level...)

Become a lich... Get an object of continuous gentle repose, or have a cleric cast it on you once every few days. -Cross

Let's get the tradeoff straight: You are spending 4 feats to get: +6 strength +2/+3 AB (in the level ranges I'm talking about) +1 hp/level. And then, if you want, you can spend 7,500 gold to get another spell persisted. If it's Righteous Might, this finally becomes worth the trade, assuming...

I'm as familiar with Cheater of Mystra style builds as you are (ok, maybe not, but close?)... But those break the game at a point where it is already damned broken in favor of spellcasters, and persistant doesn't do much to change that. Honestly, if there's a level 13 cleric in the party and...

Whoa, hold on, wait a minute. You're telling me that a 7th level human cleric who spent all his feats (Extra Turning, Persistent, Extend, Divine Metamagic) can have a single persistent spell on him? Hot diggity dog! Let's be serious for a moment. Is this a good combination? Yes, it is. But...