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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 4392958" data-attributes="member: 20805">Just poking in for a moment here.. In 3x, there was zero incentive to adapt your character to the 'random' magic item that the DM dropped into the treasure. There really was not a choice since trading up had no real penalty. In 4e, there is a penalty to trading in and thereby an incentive to weild the new +2 Thunderburst dagger even tho you are a longsword specialist. There could even be an incentive to adapt your character, through feat choice and power selection, to emphasis the new magic item. {and with the retraining rules, this isn't difficult...} And at the end of the day, trading in for a +1 Thunderburst longsword still does not seriously impact on the characters 'need' for a magic plus to attacks, as AllisterH points out.Its a paradigm shift in the way characters and players should treat magic items. IMO, its a shift that lends more to organic character growth and better game play. YMMV.</blockquote>