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I don't think the question was nitended as "can someone make a build that will beat Tiamat?" but raher "can a typical 30th level party be expected to have a chance to beat her?" Builds are fun excercises, but don't really speak to balance. Just looking at her numbers, she'll be a hard fight...

Ditto. Being pompous at one board and blaming it on treatment received at another is just plain lazy.

Not sure. That's what our resident ranger player says. He's played both types and he's the kind of guy that scours every book for every bonus, so I took him at his word.

If I'm understanding correctly, he's not doing it completely correct. He has to use his minor action every round to sustain it. A sustained power ends at the end of your next turn unless it is sustained again (or some other effect ends it earlier). One option might be to house rule the sphere...

You may want to invest in a different hobby. Knitting perhaps.

I don't have the final word on the matter, I was merely offering my opinion and pointing the curious to where my response to your xerox effort could be found. Feel free to continue two disjointed threads about the same topic if you prefer. With any luck a mod will come along and merge them anyway.

You prefer unnecessary reincarnation? My response is in the thread that contains the entire conversation.

If the warlock is their own enemy, they are always the closest enemy to themselves, and will never be able to curse another creature. Let them have their 5 temp hp, then laugh as their striker starts doing damage comparable to a controller.

The two weapon fighter makes up for it by having many more options for increasing his damage, which is especially important if you're expecting to use Twin Strike a lot.

Recharges on a 1 or 2? May as well make it an at will.

What he's saying is that if your primary class is swordmage, Warrior of the Wild does not show up in your list of available feats even if you meet the prereq of Str 13 or Dex 13.

Here's something I threw together this morning. I haven't given any of them powers yet, but the math is all done. It's an excel spreadsheet with the math pre-figured for each focus of the PHB classes. I'm not very familiar with warlocks, so I may have chosen the wrong stats for the three pacts...

Yeah, it's definitely the last ditch effort, but it sounded from your last post that it might be necessary. I was probably reading too much into it.

If common sense doesn't work and they insist that you can be unaware of something and still react to it, just say "ok" and bust out your preplanned encounter that abuses the hell out of it. The DM has infinnitely more resources than the players, and is thus infinitely more capable of abusing any...

Pointing out the obvious and restating the designer's goals is fanboyism? wow. Never realized that. Thanks for your opinion.

If she is dazed or stunned she loses her next head's activation instead. She has no special protection against other status effects beyond rolling saves immediately and on each head's turn.

The meaning of the word "can" or the intent of the word "and" is immaterial. The word "additional" clenches it. You cannot do "additional" anything unless you have already done that something. If you don't spend the surge, you don't gain any hit points, and thus can't gain additional hit points...

Moving a grabbed creature is a pull, which is forced movement and covered by 284. Throwing a grabbed creature is a house rule, but should probably be implemented as a push (you'd need telekinesis to slide them), which is also forced movement.

One need not target the ground for it to be an effective tactic. An encounter with 0 objects near the enemies means you're fighting in a barren plain against naked foes and any allies in melee with them are also nude. How often does that happen?

Is this your first run at epic level play, and have the players spent a lot of time reading those rules. There's a lot of things epic characters can do that might be missed by someone who hasn't been reading their class for a few months or more as they gain levels. What were the PCs' classes...