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My concerns about the class have been ameliorated by what I've seen in the higher level spell sheets. However, Skamos isn't representative of what a wizard can do. His spell selection was rather bland. The controller role involves more than leveraging damage across multiple opponents.

Did no one use the ranger's class encounter power?

EDIT: It seems that statblocks containing recharges with a single number lower than 6 were merely shorthand by the transcriber.

Take a look at fox's cunning.

Dear gods. :lol: Sans pause. Perhaps I should have written it 'tife-ling'.

In some thread somewhere, it was said that you could make any attack non-lethal.

Pronunciation makes all the difference for me. Teef-ling makes me think of some house gnome that bogarts your nose hair trimmer in the middle of the night. Tie-fling sounds more sinister, and that's how I'll say it, right or not.

What a nice demonstration of the complexity that can result from a few well thought out abilities. Awesome battle.

He did specifically mention spells cast "throughout the course of battle" but even if we take buffs into account, utility powers in 4e seem to require an action of less than a standard action, so there's actually more opportunity to burn through your roster if you so choose.

I come to the exact opposite conclusion. The grid doesn't allow for tactical fuzziness. You know exactly when you're flanking. You know precisely which routes across the battlefield will provoke. It's clear when you're in melee and when you're not. IME, this is the sort of certainty that...

Wait. What? You are talking about the notorious 2-3 round battle of 3.x right?

Magic missile may be the worst option in most cases. Leave that to the strikers. The wizard should be dropping area attacks to get the baddies nice and bloodied.

Point taken. It seems that irrespective of the 'swing' built in to the 4e mechanics you mention, there is also an implicit opportunity for mitigation. The low damage effects and high hitpoints I mentioned before seem to provide(in my admittedly limited experience) a chance for PC response to...

Okay, let's try this again. This time with context clues.

I appreciate the explanation. It strikes me though that a 3.x party running into bodaks and having a bad day on the dice is likely to go in the toilet pretty quickly. I've seen girallons evicerate a healthy party simply because they won initiative. With 4e, the larger number of hitpoints, the...

I'm afraid that it's a basic tenet of life.

I can't believe he said that and expected anyone to take him seriously. Yes, when the DM rolls well and you roll poorly, you have a hard time.

Dwarf gnomes? :\

That's a really good idea. I could see it requiring the tripper to have combat advantage in place of a really crummy modifier.

Anyone have a guess on how utility powers are doled out with respect to the encounter/daily divide? It caught my attention that the level 16 spellsheet includes 1 encounter and 2 daily. This suggests that you either get to pick which type you'd like or you get more than one.