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Er -- Do you know why the wizard's taking this tack? Is he using ranged attacks with a to-hit roll? (in which case, why is he a wizard, but also it does make sense not to attack a baddie while you've got a -2 to hit). Is he under the impression that burst/blasts have a penalty against prone...

(edited to dodge the ninjas) This has been true for Beastmaster Ranger companions since Martial Power. I have no reason to believe it was ever -not- true for Sentinels, as they mostly took the text from the Beastmaster (except for letting the Sentinel re-summon his beast after it's killed, and...

Note that if you wanted to be more controllery and a little less leadery, you could take Grasping Tide instead. But that would make Shilelah a much less good idea, as you'd be spending much less time making melee attacks (and might make the wizard even sadder, as it's better at-will control...

He could be -- though very few rogues are purely ranged. I'd take Summon Giant Toad -- it's awesome. Remember, it has that instinctive action, so on turns you don't give it orders, it will attack an enemy or chase one; and if you (or an ally) can shove an enemy into range of it, it will attack...

Apropos of nothing, I was playing around with a Sentinel and realized I could now go Half-Elf with Staff Fighting for Twin Strike d12/d12 at will (based on wisdom) in paragon with perfect stats for same. There's just one problem: Combined Fighting outdamages Twin Strike! So there's really no...

Darklord: No, that matches pretty much none of the posters, and I beilive all the respondents would be unified in disagreeing with that idea, as it gives you -extra- benefit from attacking yourself. There's a division in the ranks, which stands on the question of whether RC prohibits you from...

Very nice -- I like the resulting Elite a lot. Using a variant Epic flurry as his Elite damage is inspired, and keeps his damage at the right point while making it very "monk-like"--and forcing him to spread his at-will damage around to three enemies keeps the character tactical and makes it...

My not liking "I swing and try to miss" is really separate from the issue; I don't like "try to miss" attempts, as I think they're lame, but that's a "not in my game, you don't", not related to BoR (except that they're both abuses). IMO, PCs should be able to decide to treat any character they...

Er... Obviously BoR isn't to be taken literally with rodents (although there's a reason it's called that). Making weak attacks for effect (with your eyes closed, after lying down) are a related issue, but not exactly the same issue. Er, the battlerager is easy: Battlerager Vigor...

Yes, you certainly lose stealth. Unless you don't have line of effect to anything except yourself, where I think you could make an argument that you don't (or you do but it doesn't matter). I disagree with Aegeri that this falls under bag of rats. There's a big difference between attacking a...

Er, isn't this exactly what I said in the last paragraph of #75?

I've already answered this (and changed my initial opinion). One can analyze controller vs defender as "controller has weak defenses and prevents enemies from doing what they want and acts at range; defender has strong defenses, and prevents enemies from doing what they want, and acts in...

Tony: See my last. If one thinks of a character's defenses as the whole package, rather than just AC+NADs+HP, you can build a true "ranged defender" class without a pet by making the character -weak- in melee, with its defenses against melee being "acting at range" and powers that let it escape...

This is incorrect. They are "essentials classes" (and have any comonality at all) only in that they are both printed in the Essentials books. But there's nothing particularly special about the Essentials books except that it introduces the non-ADEU subclasses, and the classes introduced in...

Also, I think one of the things Wizards realized is that there are -already- plenty of classes that have a full range of powers (usually except at wills) that poach another class's scthick. Avengers can play single-target controller if they want to; Paladins have everything leaderish they need...

andy3k: like the Sentinel Druid? Or the Slayer? The whole point of subclasses is that they don't have to have the same role as the original class in the group.

He usually figures it out after he gets knocked unconcious a few times. :) More specifically, if your druid is getitng enemies to attack him rather than not be able to attack at all (or at tack the defender) he's playing defender--and he isn't very good at it. The sentinel can manage it...

Er. I think the Punisher eratta was in the official eratta document. Did they eratta it further? I don't think Tide was stealth eratta either -- didn't they change it when they changed every single "move a critter and shift into a square it left" power in existence (so you couldn't pick a...

Rechan: :) Sorry about writing DMG when I meant Dragon. Fixed it. The two powers I mention are daily attacks that as an effect give you the reroll on -all- Avenger implement powers you use for that encounter. So with those, a mostly-implement Avenger can get their accuracy bonus on most of...

That's certainly a big issue, yes. The fact that the Ranger at-will is so hideous does push things in this direction, though; with very little reason to use an encounter power rather than an at will, virtually all optimized Rangers load up on immediate action encounter powers instead. (re not...