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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5292405" data-attributes="member: 51942">I.e. it's a real choice - which is fine.  The lack of equivalent for implement users is tricky.  Over-specialization by feats and powers is definitely a problem, but that's another matter entirely - were weapon focus more general, that wouldn't really change the balance argument.  And if you find a weapon with a higher bonus, then in heroic and paragon tier it's almost certainly worth giving up weapon focus for +1 to hit and damage, and probably worth it in epic too - but obviously overspecialization is due to multiple other factors as well.  In any case: this is a different problem (and has been discussed in a different thread).  I'm saying that in terms of power level it's a simple feat that doesn't require any extra tracking in game and yet is still balanced - not that overspecialization doesn't matter.I wouldn't call backstabber a conditional bonus - it always applies to all sneak attacks.  It's this kind of feat I mean when I said "Feats that take existing things and improve them are slightly  more complex and would be a great second-tier form of complexity.  They  don't have the fiddlyness of conditional bonuses, yet neither are they  the boring flavorless things static bonuses tend to be."Stuff like Nimble Blade and Backstabber don't so much add extra conditions as take existing stuff and make it better - no extra tracking, so that's fine.  Lasting Frost is an example of a feat which is dubious (need to track the vulnerability).  Or Marked Scourge (only 1/round - resource tracking).  Most of these kind of feats happen to also be quite weak too (not Lasting Frost/Marked Scourge, of course), which makes it even worse - tons of feats to wade through which are essentially traps.</blockquote>

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