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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7560083" data-attributes="member: 6802951">From what I'm gathering of the class, its not like the Fighter, whose level of skill can match supernatural powers, or the Monk, who is supernaturally/magically skilled. The Swordmage seems to be about outright magic spells, just with a melee bent. Teleporting, blasting fire through their sword, that sort of thing. Watching the class in combat, I think that it would be pretty obvious that they're relying on magic powers rather than pure skill.&nbsp;I'd suggest against a smite-like ability to burn spell slots. The class will have actual spells delivered by weapon blow, and so the smite ability will either be less powerful that using the spell slot to cast one of those spells (making it less useful), or it would be more powerful, in which case the actual spells won''t be used.Think of the current problem that the Paladin has: Paladins seem to use their actual smite spells very rarely because using the spell slot in a Divine&nbsp; Smite is regarded as superior.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7560083, member: 6802951"] From what I'm gathering of the class, its not like the Fighter, whose level of skill can match supernatural powers, or the Monk, who is supernaturally/magically skilled. The Swordmage seems to be about outright magic spells, just with a melee bent. Teleporting, blasting fire through their sword, that sort of thing. Watching the class in combat, I think that it would be pretty obvious that they're relying on magic powers rather than pure skill. I'd suggest against a smite-like ability to burn spell slots. The class will have actual spells delivered by weapon blow, and so the smite ability will either be less powerful that using the spell slot to cast one of those spells (making it less useful), or it would be more powerful, in which case the actual spells won''t be used. Think of the current problem that the Paladin has: Paladins seem to use their actual smite spells very rarely because using the spell slot in a Divine Smite is regarded as superior. [/QUOTE]

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