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"The power of the combo appears cheesy, but remember that it comes at a cost, dominating a large number of feat choices and making for a very MAD build. Threatening reach makes it worse, but has limited availability. Nevertheless, some DMs will have a knee-jerk "nerf!" reaction."...

Because people think things are cheesy even when they aren't, and they don't look at the opportunity cost. Basically people like simplifying things and having opinions, but looking at facts and considering all the complexities of a situation results in a real answer.

Eh. It doesn't work till Paragon. Would you like a mathematical breakdown of how many Paragon+ monsters have Reach, which nullifies the whole thing? Answer: a lot. Or multi-square shifts. Or. PG is good, but it is hardly cheesy.

OA's interrupt their trigger. Trigger is entering > you attack, he stops before he enters the square because the OA happens before the trigger resolves (resolving in this case would be actually entering the square).

You're seriously overthinking this. CA is a binary condition, you either have it against an enemy (for whatever reason), or you don't. If you have CA against an enemy, Claw Gloves work.

RAW the order of operations would be select power > move > end movement > not invisible > stealth check (assuming you had the total/superior from another source). Stealth says you roll "after the action that involves moving", Flare says till the end of the movement, and the movement is contained...

Given the sheer number of ways not to provoke OAs from moving/attacking at all (as opposed to gaining a relatively small bonus), Defensive Mobility is not "something you'd take anyway." Really if you want to run DPR numbers and defenses and the opportunity costs etc., he's right, Battlefield...

In the example he's a Fighter. Fighter OA's stop movement as a Class Feature. ^.^

Actually a Dragonborn with Draconic Arrogance can do quite a lot of damage with Polearm Momentum (the stat array is ugly though). Greatspear Barbarians are pretty common as well (particularly with the 1/2/3 untyped bonus to charge damage that Spears gets now)

Considering a large portion of 4e's regular gaming is LFR, where the DM has no such liberty, the actual rules are pretty relevant. Particularly when there is now a whole class-build whose whole shtick is based around this concept... even in home games you eliminate a lot of tactical options if...

Touch of Kyuss Level 16 Disease Endurance improve DC 25, maintain DC 20, worsen DC 19 or lower The target is cured. > Initial Effect: The target regains only half the normal hit points when it spends a healing surge. If it dies, it is immediately raised as a Wreth of Kyuss. > The Target...

Not actually going to look those up, but if they say what you say they do, no. Ignoring Cover doesn't mean the target doesn't have Cover, just that for the purposes attacking it is irrelevant to you.

Yep. Cincture of Vivacity on yourself, Rune of Mending yourself to give yourself THP, Come and Get It. Doable first round of every encounter. Win.

Because all the Rune feats are God-awful (sorry Draco) they hybrid well! Half-Orc Paladin|Runepriest is as money build, overall. Runepriest|Warlord is also pretty decent. Since I think of a "balanced" party as 1 defender, 1.5 leaders, 1 controller, and 1.5 strikers it fits the bill nicely. It...

Addressing these in reverse order, flat damage doesn't get a bonus that applies to "damage rolls" because you're not rolling damage. There is a minor issue there that I won't get into because I don't think it is RAI and it doesn't address your issue. ^.^ For the rest.... RC, bottom of page 222...

Do you even know what those words mean? Really, there is a very clear reason I can't be making an ad hominem argument in that post, which is that I wasn't arguing, I was mocking your illiteracy. Which is rude, and I apologize. As I said to Draco, getting in the way of someone who is choosing to...

Your grasp of the English language when your counter-argument involves posting that text that proves my point, and you wrong, can't possibly be said to be anything but bad.

....So 0 squares is not within 1 square of the origin square of a melee attack? Uh-huh. That math needs work.

Logically that would mean if you had a "melee 2" attack you could only attack at melee 2. Since that would be retarded, you're clearly wrong. Also it'd mean you couldn't make an MBA against a Tiny creature in your space, which you can, so you're wrong again. Origin Square only specifies the...

Standard to feed a potion to someone else, minor to drink it yourself.