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Thankfully you don't have to agree for me to be right. Again, you're welcome to go and do the math for the baseline assumptions, which as I continually have to point out to you, is an upper bound. There is no designed limit in the other direction so it doesn't matter if options increase PC power...

No, I'm pretty sure most people have not spent any time at all doing the actual math. The hit% is a result of extensive stats work to ensure a certain average number of rounds for E+y. The disparity is just pointing out that this built-in conclusion fails to hold because one of baseline...

No, funny thing about facts, they aren't subject to debate. It is kind of weird you can't see that, but /shrug. I get you have an opinion... but your opinion isn't in way relevant when I'm dealing with objective information. It is subjective. Reasonable people can disagree about subjective...

Actually... yes. By RAW it isn't that you can't have more then one, it is that normally you can only take the Arcane Familiar feat once and thus only gain one. But if you somehow gain a Familiar from another source, works fine.

OK. Math > your anecdotal experience, sorry. I've played epic games without Expertise. The built-in system assumptions don't hold up without Expertise. And that was with MM1 monsters, I shudder to think what it'd be like now. But that is also anecdotal, so moving along... 1.) We know the...

Well actually reasonable people disagree about how to fix it (unreasonable people disagree it is an even an issue, but they can't do math). Some people think the Devs fix is fine, particular with Essentials Expertise feats adding a second feat basically rolled in. Though the power level of...

All expected static modifiers are taken into account. Other things are intended to be bonuses on top of the minimum, not intended to bring you up to the minimum. Yes, NAD = Not Armor Defense. Well, monsters range from 95% hit to 5% hit, depending on the PC, in practical terms (a monster...

Is this a good time to point out that Draconic Spellcaster is an Expertise feat and a Focus feat rolled together? You took an Expertise Feat by another name, still fixing the math.

Devs is short for Developers, people who make the game. On average Monsters have the following defenses Level+14 AC, Level+12 NADs. There are differences in role and elite/solo, but let us ignore that for a moment (as the difference is expected by the system). A level 1 character hits 15 AC...

You get your actions back. Conversely, if you have taken an action already this turn and are dazed mid-turn, you lose all remaining actions.

Yes... in low heroic where you have almost no encounter resources it is indeed a little difficult. Mid-heroic on it is quite doable for Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer (serious), Barbarian, Avenger, Rogue, Thief, Slayer, etc., and at Paragon+ it is trivial. It is quite possible all the Strikers you've...

Standard encounter nova. You're correct that two rounds is highly optimized... for at-will DPR (4 is baseline, 3 is optimized, 1 is broken). Doesn't count Encounter powers. A standard Striker should be able to easily remove a Standard with an AP and some Encounter powers (or standard+minor(s))...

Two competent strikers can remove two standard threats from the board round 1, two optimized strikers can remove two elites from the board, and could easily remove a solo who didn't have some kind of defense mechanism (MM3/MV solos basically always do which is one more reason those monsters are...

You recall incorrectly. They are 3/6/9 to account for Expertise not applying. Only a handful of inherently scaling powers have this though (Acid Surge for Genasi, couple of others). Some are vs AC...which is still wrong. Should be 5/8/11 (or just changed to not be vs AC).

In-store play, where there is no social background, does indeed play better if you're doing episodic content. Encounters is based around this and LFR has a specific reward for playing modules in order so you can get the story clues to encourage it, and a penalty for not doing so (you cannot get...

Gnome Cunning Bard with Bard of all Trades. You can roll a stealth check whenever trouble starts if you have any cover or concealment, and go invisible when you take damage one/encounter. You're trained in every skill that matters, and have +4 to untrained skills anyway. You're Int/Cha primary...

Technically any Int/Cha race works, but Tiefling is far and away the best choice since controllers really care about going first to lock down a fight, and Tiefling gives you the ability to add +Cha to their Init mod and, because you can use Orbs via Wizard MC, you get +int as well. That is a...

Quite possible you learned it from me, and in fact some entries that say they are up to date are not. Still generally accurate (90-95%).

I prefer laptop+DDI, but absent that: Yes, RC is definitely worth it. None of the splat books are really worth it imo. DDI+Forums covers all the information better.

Tiefling Cunning Bard/Wizard/Resourceful Magician. Not a complete controller until level 16, but is good enough up to that point and then is simultaneously the best controller in the game and a leader. Virtue of Cunning on top of Wizard zones also happens to be brutal when you add in the feat...