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<blockquote data-quote="Njall" data-source="post: 4269529" data-attributes="member: 54719">... a lvl 33 solo is supposed to be a challenge for a 33th level party. How is killing a monster in 1-2 rounds a challenge? Sure, you can say &quot;that's not as broken as I expected&quot;, but the PCs are clearly not supposed to kill him on the spot. If they were, Blade Cascade wouldn't be the clear winner in terms of raw damage. The power is available since 15th level; this means a 15th level ranger can end 1 encounter per day against a solo monster of his level with just 1 daily.&nbsp; I usually help my players optimize their characters when I dm, but this power is just over the top, as written. It's not something that becomes broken when the pcs exploit some crazy synergy...It just breaks the game when a character that's been built properly makes a legitimate use of it.Obviously, I may be wrong, but unless you can find another power that can deal 40x your regular damage ( even 30x your regular damage would be fine), I'll just assume that there's some typo in the power's description, and that it will be errata'ed ASAP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Njall, post: 4269529, member: 54719"] ... a lvl 33 solo is supposed to be a challenge for a 33th level [b]party[/b]. How is killing a monster in 1-2 rounds a challenge? Sure, you can say "that's not as broken as I expected", but the PCs are clearly not supposed to kill him on the spot. If they were, Blade Cascade wouldn't be the clear winner in terms of raw damage. The power is available since 15th level; this means a 15th level ranger can end 1 encounter per day against a solo monster of his level with just 1 daily. I usually help my players optimize their characters when I dm, but this power is just over the top, as written. It's not something that becomes broken when the pcs exploit some crazy synergy...It just breaks the game when a character that's been built properly makes a legitimate use of it. Obviously, I may be wrong, but unless you can find another power that can deal 40x your regular damage ( even 30x your regular damage would be fine), I'll just assume that there's some typo in the power's description, and that it will be errata'ed ASAP. [/QUOTE]

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