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You're correct that none of the Essentials classes came with Ritual Caster as a default (they could, of course, take them). We used them a lot in a home game, but that was partially because we had a Wizard who enjoyed being a Skill/Ritual monkey. Took the Cantrips to use Arcana in place of...

Others have sort of said this, but just to be clear- 4e is really designed for a group of heroic (the regular meaning, not the 4e levels 1-10) adventurers. That means that they are all minimally competent at basic adventuring tasks- you never need to roll for whether or not you can ride a...

It's not strictly wrong, per se. But 4-5 encounters in a day, especially now that you have 3 Encounter powers and will have 3 Dailies next level, is generally more of the intended average. That also allows you to think about daily resources like Action Points. --- Why is the Barbarian using...

I haven't actually played through either fully, but most of the complaints about the original 4e adventures were exactly what you said- bog standard, combat heavy and railroad-y (and combat heavy with the pre-MM3 monster math, so encounters took longer). The better received options allow...

Things that usually go into rating striker powers, not necessarily in this order.: 1) Does it do multiple attack rolls/multiple damage instances? If yes, higher rating (that's why Flame Spiral is the best Sorcerer power, period). Alternatively- does it give you a damage instance without...

Got it; wanted to see if there was anything I was missing. You do refer to dropping Lashing Flail and Harlequin Style for Lasting Frost and Cunning Stalker at 13, but presumably you grab them back at 14/16.

Trying to figure out how the Staggering Alulak/Flail Expertise/Lashing Flail are working together on both the Cavalier|Battlemind and GISM. On the C|B, Lashing Flail lets you slide on an MBA (presumably OAs), and Flail Expertise lets you prone- fair enough. But then your slide is gone, and you...

Divine Power is critical to Paladins, in particular- the PHB version doesn't have enough options for a CHA or STR primary Paladin to take at every level (basically, you have to have them as co-primaries). It also introduces Divine Sanction, which allows Paladins to function as zone defenders...

I will note that it hurst anything that relies on Critical Hits- that might be part of the desired removal of optimization, but it definitely makes Student of Caiphon, Daggermaster, Avengers in general, and anything else that relies on crits particularly less powerful (presuming that a crit...

I'll note that a lot of these get into the fiddly bonus realm- the kind that cause long encounters because players are forever figuring out how much damage they're dealing and calculating/recalculating (basically: if it's hard to have a flowchart that says you do XdY + Z damage, with two or...

Lingering Flame- that's an awful lot of hitting you have to do (twice) in order to add a minimal amount of damage (compare to Lasting Frost, where the vulnerability pings with each damage instance, rather than once per turn). It might be vaguely useful with the Master of Flame paragon path due...

Rebounding Weapon is interesting and Uncommon- 1/encounter, if you miss an enemy, make an RBA against a different enemy. I assume that one of your primary stats is WIS. It sounds like the other may be STR; if so, make sure you use it on something Heavy Thrown (maybe Handaxe for now, or Drow...

Not all the time. But there are Monk powers that let you move and attack at some time during the move (Expect Table Variation on whether you have to spend a standard action to make the attack- MwaO, who wrote the Monk handbook at WotC/here, argues no, but plenty of DMs may disagree), and...

They're actually different. Shield is a Power Bonus (SS is untyped). But SS is only against the triggering attack, while Shield lasts until the end of your next turn. Very useful against a multi attacking enemy or against multiple enemies.

You are probably thinking of Resourceful Magician, from Dragon 376. It's a Bard PP that gives minor bonuses for certain arcane MC feats (generally the earliest ones for a given class), has a very powerful E11, and then at 16 lets you start swapping any arcane multi class you have.

As others have noted- it's unclear. But even without it, Revenant cheese is plenty powerful- Death's Quickening gives you the minor action, Ghostly Vitality in Epic removes most of Dazed's disadvantages, and Belt of Sonnlinor Righteousness gives you major resistance below 0hp.

Crits in 4e are pretty well balanced as it is- useful, valuable if you optimize around them, but not overwhelming (again, unless you optimize around them). They're one of those areas that doesn't really need a lot of houseruling. On first blush the houserule might help high [W] single attacks...

Ooze Master comes from Dragon Magazine issue 413.

To be clear here, you're looking at the Level 5 low level Monk build, correct? That build has a Mighty Blurred Strike Ki Focus +1 that it's making attacks with, and is holding a club with the Ki Weapon +1 enchantment (from PHB3), which deals 2 extra damage once/turn to FoB targets. And because...

I know that Vistani is geared towards curse spreading...but is there any reason to not use a Rod of Corruption for curse spreading, at least in your off hand? Comes on line early, gets better at Paragon with Bloodied Boon, and even if you don't attack with it, the Expertise feat may be worth it...