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That's not always true. If your enemies killed you in a round and you kill them in 3, improving your damage to the point that you're able to kill them in 2 is not improving your situation. Offense is the best defense only if you can kill all enemies fast, in 4e, with burst offensive beefy...

Ah, I get you, I meant maximize as maximized utility from gloves of destruction and vorpal, not literally maxed as in being critical. I should be more careful in a rules forum, my bad.

Because of this rule: Extra Damage: Magic weapons and implements, as well as high crit weapons, can increase the damage you deal when you score a critical hit. If this extra damage is a die roll, it’s not automatically maximum damage; you add the result of the roll. The high crit damage is...

Yep, kensai is pretty nasty with the +4 damage bonus. I am kind of disappointed that the fighter class which seems built to tank has 3 paragon classes that want to be strikers instead.

That's true, but I would personally find more utility in a belt of vigor if 520 gp is all you have.

I think you're overstating the difficulty here. While it might be slightly more difficult to keep two weapons up to date, it's not like new weapons are needed every level. If you're interested only in frost, the upgrades come at every 5 levels or so, which is more than enough time to keep them...

In a word: No Vorpal: Whenever you roll the maximum result on any damage die for this weapon, roll that die again and add the additional result to the damage total. If a reroll results in another maximum damage result, roll it again and keep adding. Critical: Rather than roll damage, determine...

This makes it sound like there's some discussion of a fighter build going paragon multiclass for twinstrike, which while not impossible, isn't really on the table at all. Twinstrike is also worse starting out, it's not till static bonuses to damage get big that twinstrike becomes superior. BIG...

You have to paragon multiclass to get another at-will and half-elves only get another at-will as an encounter power. As for armor, I suppose that might be true at certain levels, but at 30, you're more likely to be missing out on extra wondrous items than a suit of +6 armor since generic +6 is...

I did compare it to the basic attack of a hammer dude with +6 damage bracers. Twinstrike still wins at high levels. And heavy blade opportunity means you can even use it for AoOs. If you're just referencing the OP about d8 fists, then the reaping strike is probably better than the basic attack...

Gauntlets of destruction - GET IT NOW Assuming you are at that level of course, the wondrous items have much higher level reqs this time around.

Well, his AC is better than a two handed weapon fighter since the offhand weapon also functions as a light shield. And yeah, I removed the +8 strength bonus from twinstrike, the magic weapon bonus and power of crits just make it right back. Then add scimitar dance (dex mod damage on a miss) and...

Well, besides the obvious Winter's Touch + Lasting Frost combo, a frost mage is quite doable in 4e since cold powers are pretty common. Burning blizzard might also be worth a look if you're going solely cold for flavor purposes.

17 is probably the worst stat you can get unless your campaign is going to start exactly at level 4 or something. Most cost for the least bang.

Even with the extra damage from the bracers, since you can grab heavy blade opportunity, twinstrike is much much better. According to my quick math using 50% hit chance (possibly wrong) and assuming +8 str and con and +7 to dex with weapon mastery: At level 30, generic +6 twinstriking...

That's true, if your wizard is attempting to hit high defenses, he comes off significantly worse. Something like trying to hit a zombie's fortitude is just a bad idea. The key to wizards is to get scorching burst and cloud of daggers imho, which makes them the absolute best at clearing minions...

But sure strike actually isn't bad all the time compared to reaping strike, the alternative. I think just making fighters worse at doing damage with at-wills in comparison to rangers isn't that bad a deal.

+8 is the peak of level 1 to hit I think since it either requires +4 stat +3 prof +1 fighter bonus or +5 stat +3 prof for everybody else. And even then, that's still a 35% chance to miss against 15 AC. Casters are likely to only have +4 since they hit other defenses which are usually around 2...

It would be pretty bad if slowing was the only thing it does. As it is currently balanced, I still find flaming sphere to be a level 1 power since it instantly fries large groups of minions, no questions asked at a time when hitting your enemy is highly suspect. Maybe at high levels sleep can...

While sleep is pretty awesome, you have to hit, and it's one of the few offensive dailies that doesn't do any damage whatsoever if it hits, and the unconsciousness kicks in only if the target fails the first saving throw. Since the only other abilities are rogue martials, I think it's quite...