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One of the problems with 4e is that while it does the dramatic set-piece battle extremely well (and by far is the best at it out of all the versions), it has a tendency to try to make all combats dramatic. Unfortunately this has the effect of lessening the impact of the epic fights and making...

We should be getting more and more campaigns into the Epic Tier now, and I was wondering if people could share their experiences? Is it worth going to? Does the slog get to be too much?

Are there any monsters with 2d10+15 damage in earlier MMs?

True, but the expected damage is still the same. It is admittedly more swingy. But then again I believe 4e could use more swing.

It's fairly simple, but it's one way to put some fear into your PC's. Arcane Springboard: The Brutal Elite

I think your experience is fairly rare. :-)

I think that one of the issues here is that we've all grown up expecting a certain pattern to adventures, especially when going into lairs or other areas of similar type creatures (say for example the Steading of the Hill Giant King). You expect several encounters as you enter the lair but...

Given that, for various reasons, 4e combat significantly increases in length once you hit Paragon (and worse when you hit Epic), could one concievably reduce Epic and Paragon monsters to Heroic level, just by adjusting the to hits/damage using the Monster Builder? What would mess that up?

I think you're doing that wrong. The Mark of Storm applies to lightning or thunder powers...not damage. It needs the lightning or thunder keyword in the power in order to apply.

No Ju-Ju Zombies yet.

Especially at Paragon and Epic tiers. The Level 5 monster wasn't all that much different (only a +1 to damage over what I would have expected).

Another thing is that monsters in the Paragon and Epic tiers just don't do enough damage. WotC seems to have come to this realization as all of the higher level monster previews have significantly higher damage values.

I just noticed that the Potion of Clarity has been updated (yes I know it was February, but I didn't realize it until this week). If you didn't know...it no longer requires a Healing Surge, but instead requires a Daily Magic item power use when you drink the potion, and you can only re-roll an...

How do you avoid the situation where someone might buy duplicates of magic items?

The "Eye on..." looks like a regular feature...which I'm all thumbs up for, since DDI is the only post-3-books support that campaign settings get now.

Yep. I'm usually a DM, but I'm playing right now and was almost overwhelmed by the number of options for Rangers. It's getting to the point that while there should be some additional crunch for some of the more newer builds (ie Whirling Barbarian), the older builds probably should be left alone.

...and the goblinoids aren't Evil in Eberron, and in fact, a major nation. I'd like to see these too. Oh yes. Plus...more campaign specific stuff. DDI was where we were promised that we'd get the campaign specific articles now that we're in the 3-and-out format for campaign settings. Yet...

One complication I've been trying to wrap my head around is that while I love making the PCs make ethical or moral choices, it's tougher to do when say, in the Underdark involving monsters, or in the outer planes involving devils/demons etc.

I think the Mimic preview adds to my theory that monster damage has gotten a significant boost from Page 42. 3d8+11 for an at-will controller power damage? That's +4 over the Normal-High value on Page 42. Similarly for the recent Dark Sun previews (6d10 at will damage?) I'm very happy about...