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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7619422" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>In my opinion, 4e didn’t so much balance the abilities as it removed the distinctions between them. Each class added their primary ability to attack and damage rolls with their class Powers. Initiative and Fort, Ref, and Will defenses could each be calculated with one of two abilities. And between +5 bonus to skill checks for training and +1/2 level to everything, the impact of abilities on skills was pretty minimal. Between that and point buy, everyone basically had a primary ability that they attacked with and boosted every four levels, two secondary abilities that contributed to defenses and stayed largely static, and three dump stats. Which ones were which was mostly a matter of flavor.</p></blockquote><p></p>