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Wow, I missed that post by Herschel. lol @ "immature players". What I think is funny is that people have so much faith in the game, they won't believe other people when they say strikers are the pet class and are just flat out better most of the time. Last week at the level 16 dungeon delve, my...

Self-fulfilling prophecy again. If you run out of healing surges with a cleric, it's because he wasn't dealing as much damage as anyone else, and replaced his damage with extra healing (which you wouldn't have needed if he was cranking out damage like you). While I've always supported that 1...

All strikers hinder enemies and inflict conditions. They don't use zones, but they don't need to. Wizard zones are crap, anyway. They hurt your party. While you can time the AoE areas and bursts, the zones just make big areas for your party to avoid and *possibly* push bad guys into. It's 10x...

Also, all striker classes have access to AOE attacks. Some, like the barbarian and sorcerer, get AOE attacks per encounter and on dailies. If you're running 5 strikers, grab a few AoE attacks, and minions no longer pose a threat, either.

I really can't believe all of this "strikers are glass cannons" noise across this thread, this board, and other boards. I've given empirical evidence showing that strikers regularly have some of the best defenses in the game, but I hear "no, you're wrong, because I said so, and because if I...

Why don't you guys arguing against the change just take a sharpie, scribble out "unaligned", and write "good"?

Meh.

This is the sort of tradeoff I'm speaking of. Fighter increases everyone else's defenses by 2 against anything he's marked; but he deals less damage than a striker, prolonging the fight, increasing overall damage taken by the party in total, and begs the question for a leader to be present...

I fixed that for you. I'm surprised I actually got support on this point. =P On the invoker, are you talking about Divine Bolts? How the HECK does Divine Bolts deal more damage than a striker? That's absurd. Level 5...2d6 + 14 is still less than 2d10 + 4 + 1d8 or 1d4 + 2d8 + 10...and the...

The more I play 4e, the more apparent it becomes that strikers are the best classes in the game, and all other classes are largely unnecessary and only a playstyle choice. Hear me out. Strikers are, for the most part, as durable as any defender class. They have equal defenses, and although...

Yeah...the design team really didn't stick to their guns on this. At all. Of course, they NEVER do, in any edition, so why am I surprised? =) "Not having control of your character isn't fun, so we're not going to put in effects that cause a continued loss of control". Right. There's some level...

This is absurd.

Thank God.

I'm currently using this cheese with my epic dwarf cleric, dwarven weapon training, and a holy avenger maul. +2 to all damage in aoe's that stacks with Astral Fire? Sounds good.

Not sure what the big deal is...even moderately optimized PCs are virtually indestructible nowadays. Dying isn't fun, so it was mostly removed from the game AFAICT.

In a fit of...something...I declared that two guards were playing some sort of collectible/trading card game. My players instantly incapacitated the guards, wanting stats for their new decks, and wondering who else they could play against. So I need some kind of "rules" to make this more fun...

The fact that you even get Twin Strike should make you not care that you don't have a selection of powers; you wouldn't even use them! It's sorta like the level 9 dailies. You can take Close Combat Shot and deal 4W+ to an adjacent enemy...or you can take Attacks on the Run (like every other...

PS if you play past heroic tier without the right magical items, you pretty much get destroyed by monsters. Tactics won't really help when you get hit on a 4 or higher.

I thought any character could automatically determine the properties of a magical item during a short rest?

Jagged Fullblade imo.