Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Benoz" data-source="post: 7442418" data-attributes="member: 6957531">Thank you for the quick reply.Our party started playing d&amp;d 4e roughly two months ago, so we may be doing some mistakes managing encounters.That said, we normally have two fights per day: an easy one (where only encounter powers are used) and a tough one (where daily powers are necessary to win).Question 1: is this a total misinterpretation of d&amp;d 4e encounter logic?---The striker in our party is a lvl 8 Goliath Barbarian using a gouge, so his basic attacks deal 2d6 + 8 (str + weapon focus + enh). That's very close to the warden's ones. Yet, also in non-Guardian Form, he can pump his damage modifier to +12 with <a href="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Weight_of_earth" target="_blank">Weight of Hearth</a>. In guardian form he can reach 2d10 +27 with <a href="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Rough_strike" target="_blank">Rough Strike</a>. That seems pretty huge to me.Even rearranging ability scores to have better NADs and initiative (like STR 20, CON 16, DEX 14, INT 11, WIS 14, CHA 8), <a href="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Weight_of_earth" target="_blank">Weight of Hearth</a> would deal 1d10 +9 (non-Guardian Form) and <a href="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Rough_strike" target="_blank">Rough Strike</a> would deal 2d10 +18 (Guardian Form). That still seems quite high for a defender.Question 2: are we missing something on our striker or am i overvaluing a +18 damage modifier at level 8?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benoz, post: 7442418, member: 6957531"] Thank you for the quick reply. Our party started playing d&d 4e roughly two months ago, so we may be doing some mistakes managing encounters. That said, we normally have two fights per day: an easy one (where only encounter powers are used) and a tough one (where daily powers are necessary to win). Question 1: is this a total misinterpretation of d&d 4e encounter logic? --- The striker in our party is a lvl 8 Goliath Barbarian using a gouge, so his basic attacks deal 2d6 + 8 (str + weapon focus + enh). That's very close to the warden's ones. Yet, also in non-Guardian Form, he can pump his damage modifier to +12 with [URL="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Weight_of_earth"]Weight of Hearth[/URL]. In guardian form he can reach 2d10 +27 with [URL="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Rough_strike"]Rough Strike[/URL]. That seems pretty huge to me. Even rearranging ability scores to have better NADs and initiative (like [COLOR=#333333]STR 20, CON 16, DEX 14, INT 11, WIS 14, CHA 8), [/COLOR][URL="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Weight_of_earth"]Weight of Hearth[/URL] would deal 1d10 +9 (non-Guardian Form) and [URL="http://dnd4.wikia.com/wiki/Rough_strike"]Rough Strike[/URL] would deal 2d10 +18 (Guardian Form). That still seems quite high for a defender. Question 2: are we missing something on our striker or am i overvaluing a +18 damage modifier at level 8? [/QUOTE]

Verification