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By the same token, powers like Rain of Blood can offer more attack or damage bonuses than leader powers. Our Invoker had much better buffs than our laser type cleric (who had area stuff and healing). But you're right to a point; the PHB 1 WIS cleric options are very strongly controller...

People are right to consider the controller to be close cousin to the defender - both roles are focused on enemy action. To go through all the roles: A Striker is all about applying damage - both in large amounts, and where desired. Strikers have bonus damage with mobility/ranged (sometimes...

Wow, you can Push or prone enemies and are good at charging! Wait, that's falls more into the barbarian's area of expertise than a controller's.

Spellstorm Mage is also pretty sweet too. The encounter power seems much better than the new blood pulse, especially since you can expand it normally with Resounding Thunder. Plus there's power recovery and a big selective daily, the AP feature is tasty (much better than bloodmage). It...

No. Most other controllers are worse than wizards. Invokers often have weaker conditions, smaller areas, and weaker zone dailies - they do have more party friendly powers and some good buffs, so they're the second best controller class. Druids are roughly at the warlock level of control...

4e already changed healing. Nobody just heals, except the pacifist cleric. Instead it's a minor action, or extra benefit along with the attack power that you used. Even the laser cleric isn't just standing in the pack casting heals. And a lot of classes have little bits of support and...

Having a reliable default power doesn't really change the fact that if you can't swing a more effective power than your default, things are kind of bad. If things are actually challenging, then autohitting for weak damage isn't going to turn things around. It's just going to let you say "Look...

Yeah, our rogue has been built for mad mobility with Tumble, Ignoble Escape, Guerrilla Blitz and Speed 8. If anything, he's too fast; with his extra mobility he's sometimes tempted to go after more isolated monsters and work on them with all his CA granting stuff instead of focusing fire.

Prismatic Burst seems really good for the wizard compared to 13 encounters from other controllers. In general, wizard encounters seem pretty good once you get past the level 3s.

Only sort of. Essentially, the standard 4e convention enforces variety of everything except at wills. Even if you really like Rain of Blows, Storm of Blades, whatever, you can't use it all the time. The other powers are important too. If maybe you like one of your level 3 powers over some of...

Considering that the power point system was one of the worst parts of PHB 3, I can't say that I'm enthused about further mechanics to change the mechanical structure of characters. I haven't seen too much praise online for the system where most characters will be using the same 'encounter...

Yeah. But they're great fun to ride. :)

In our current game: Invoker repeatedly blasted by area attacks and aura attacks dies. The leader is repeatedly dazed, stunned or dominated, so intervention couldn't come in time (one other character had a healing power, but forgot about it :( ). One PC caught alone was killed. Then, since...

Non dwarves use Second Wind? The Cloak doesn't improve a group's surge efficiency at all, so they lose out on daily endurance compared to heals with bonuses to the surge value. Most of the time, I'd much rather have a Cloak with a different property or power. If your group needs to spend a...

They haven't been too common in our game, being used about once per adventure. Now that Solar Wrath is only Burst 3 instead of half the battlefield, maybe minions will see more action.

Nope. It's not really that hard to remember the bits of errata most relevant to your own character. And if it is, you can just print out those sections of the updates.

The Ghast has a story about some rogue sealing up from ghouls and then coming back years later. It seems like there are a ton of monsters that dominate and/or force people to make attacks against their allies. I guess that's one way to get around a monster damage problem - just have them use...

The autumn nymph has an entry like that, as does some type of ghast IIRC. It's not especially common, but there are other entries like that.

The sort of style mishmash makes it especially jarring. If you have some book where pretty much everything is described on an in world level with quotes and stories (the DL SAGA monster book), then it may be good or bad in execution, but it's a consistent concept. Or you could have the MM 1 or...

Yeah, we figured - but we just got it today, and then had our group over, so we haven't taken the time to do that yet.