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Claiming to be a Revenant Monk that dables in druid (for the changing into different animal bits) is probably enough to explain most of the stuff (the Rev part pertaining to why the cleric's turn undead hurts him). As long as one party member is in on it and willing to give up the surges (and...

Group - "Wait, aren't you unarmed and unarmored?" Vampire - "... I'm a monk?" Having played in a group as a chameleon assassin who the group knows as an elven deckhand that teleports around and manipulates shadow magic ... I totally approve of the whole "never identify yourself" technique...

a - Fire does suck for effects ... especially for controllers. While there are some control effects (in terms of "I will punish you with fire damage if you don't do what I want you to), it's mostly damage in big areas, damage over time and things like that. A fire wizard is arguably striker...

Which would lead to the assassin eventually grabbing the "ignore poison immunity" feat. But yeah, the assassin's poisons are dailies, and using them with the dagger (or blowgun) basically makes them closer to a daily, either making it harder to save vs. the ongoing effect of the poison or...

The benefits for the binder are at-wills that are more useful for controllers, a boon (if it goes off) that is a bit more useful for control than the normal pact boons, and they do get the rider effects on the encounter powers. An old version warlock was already leading towards control, and they...

(a) It's a flavor change WITH a mechanical benefit. Since there is a mechanical benefit to changing the damage type there is more than just flavor change (b) There are NO wizard fire powers that immobilize. There is ONE daily fire power that slows (magma beast), and one that deals poison...

Well, the entire reason the question was worded the way it was is because previous "are you going to support old classes?" questions were answered with "but we are, look at Heroes of Shadow". So this question was explicitly worded to ask for support that was different than what was offered in...

Hopefully in the future they implement a way to give free feats into the character builder. The feats to allow intermingling of different builds do sort of make sense in that they may not want to make the trade off too easy, etc ... a warpriest gives up more than just healer's lore and ritual...

Well, the Blackguard does work off combat advatage for (most) of his bonus damage at the very least. And anyone wielding light blades at least gets a minor boost via expertise. [There are also people that use the suprise charge feat which requires c/a as well].

Presumably, in print they want to make sure new content is accessible to all. So, it needs to 'require' the evergreen products (i.e. HotFK/HotFL and Rules Compendium). If you have access to DDi, you automatically have access to all the content, so a new build for the runepriest is something you...

Most of the classes (apart from the mage) have something that restricts them (lack of choice for encounter powers happens a lot, or no dailies at all) so that there are less "options" than older versions of that class, and the martials have their versatility changed. The hunter, for example...

He's just making a joke. Since Nentir Vale is supposed to be what is essentially a heroic tier setting, the threats to it would be mostly heroic tier; based on the assumption that at paragon you end up going to the Feywild/Shadowfell, and once you get to Epic you start dealing with the Astral...

A cavalier does have encounter powers, Holy Smite. They just happen to modify their at-will powers instead of it being a seperate power unto themselves. This does automatic damage (even if you miss) and if it hits, it dazes (which is a pretty solid effect for an encounter power) At 3 and 13...

Except of course this question asked for support OTHER than open paragon paths and indirect power support. The entire reason THAT question was asked because Heroes of Shadow DOES support pre-Essential classes ... but only through paragon paths and indirect power support. They have repeated...

As long as you ignore all the benefits for specializing in the first place, then sure. Pyromancers turn their burst/blast attacks into zones that deal damage. Now, it would be nice to say, immobilize people in those zones. And guess what? You can't do that ... unless you can just swap one...

Each blackguard gets 2 at-wills. One is for all blackguards, one is specific to the vice. Same deal with the warlocks (both binder and hexblade). Comparing it to the old warlock, basically there is the equivalent of the eldritch blast everyone gets, and then the "pact" specific at-will like...

It's simultaneously firm and vague. Yes, it does confirm there will be support for pre-Essential classes coming soon. It leaves out any specifics, which makes sense ... they haven't finalized the plans so they can't say for sure when or what will be getting support (and, they probably don't know...

The Essential rogue does away with dailies, has reduced encounters (it gets an encounter power called backstab that gives a bonus to hit and damage, and gets more uses as it levels), and it's at-will powers are all move actions, so his attacks are all basic attacks (but they use dex). Those...

I would say the binder is very much a specific kind of controller. He is very much about keeping melee opponent's out of the fight. Not to mention, without a leader OR a defender, you are going to get pretty whacky results. Vampir and Blackguard do seem like the kind of characters that may be...

So, there are enough fire powers that slow, immobilize, attack Fort, etc, to be able to take powers like that at all levels without extensive multiclassing? I punched in "fire slowed" into the compendium and there are 21, including stuff from spellscar, paragon paths, and a number of them don't...