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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4153294" data-attributes="member: 1054">Bear in mind that power source impacts effect types (broadly). Think color in M:TG. (No, I'm not saying &quot;4e is a CCG!&quot;) Each color has a speciality, some sub-specialities, and can sometimes mimic other color's strengths with difficulty. (Thus, white is healing, defense, and small creatures, but it can do some limited direct damage (red's speciality) and overlaps a bit with blue in terms of flying/air magic. It has almost no 'hurt myself to do something bad to my enemy' powers like black, though it does have a lot 'sacrifice one creature to do something good to myself' effects.)Likewise, we know that martial is weapon-based damage and non-magical mobility, arcane is ranged damage and magical mobility, divine is healing/defense. We've been told psionics is mind control/manipulation, and shadow is illusion. Each power source also includes things out of its 'main' sphere, but weaker or more costly. I don't know if we've seen an arcane Charm Person yet, but I'll bet the psionic version is either usable more often or harder to resist or otherwise better -- for arcane, mind control is a sideline, for psionics, it's the main deal. (Or so we've been told)Primal will likely be self-buffing effects, either a druid's shapechange or a barbarian's rage.So given those categories, what *kind* of broad effects are missing? As I see it, there are six likely (Martial, Arcane, Divine, Shadow, Psionic, Primal) and two 'unmentioned'. What's left, effect wise?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4153294, member: 1054"] Bear in mind that power source impacts effect types (broadly). Think color in M:TG. (No, I'm not saying "4e is a CCG!") Each color has a speciality, some sub-specialities, and can sometimes mimic other color's strengths with difficulty. (Thus, white is healing, defense, and small creatures, but it can do some limited direct damage (red's speciality) and overlaps a bit with blue in terms of flying/air magic. It has almost no 'hurt myself to do something bad to my enemy' powers like black, though it does have a lot 'sacrifice one creature to do something good to myself' effects.) Likewise, we know that martial is weapon-based damage and non-magical mobility, arcane is ranged damage and magical mobility, divine is healing/defense. We've been told psionics is mind control/manipulation, and shadow is illusion. Each power source also includes things out of its 'main' sphere, but weaker or more costly. I don't know if we've seen an arcane Charm Person yet, but I'll bet the psionic version is either usable more often or harder to resist or otherwise better -- for arcane, mind control is a sideline, for psionics, it's the main deal. (Or so we've been told) Primal will likely be self-buffing effects, either a druid's shapechange or a barbarian's rage. So given those categories, what *kind* of broad effects are missing? As I see it, there are six likely (Martial, Arcane, Divine, Shadow, Psionic, Primal) and two 'unmentioned'. What's left, effect wise? [/QUOTE]

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