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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5391560" data-attributes="member: 78116">Brutes, Soldiers and Skirmishers can have fantastic burst attacks. Some of my best friends are Brutes with limited damage attacks. For example Ter-Soth (one of my Balors that was designed shortly after the new and shiny of MM3 rules):<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/Aegeri/Ter-Soth-1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> And for Wizards monsters (Bearing in mind appropriate damage increases): Balor (level 27 elite brute): Beheading blade - quite frankly this power rules the roost in lolwtf burst attacks on monsters. Herald of Colorless Fire (Level 27 skirmisher): Storm of Colorless Fire Angel of Command (Level 25 Soldier): Edict of Honor Dragonborn Deathknight (Level 25 Elite Solider): Unholy Flames Mezzodemon Watchguard (Level 27 Soldier): Poison Breath And so on. Most solos have burst/area attacks as well. A good combination of monsters - albeit I do acknowledge the higher in tier you go the worse your options get - is paramount. Also, brutes and soldiers should not inherently be the most common part of the encounter. In fact it's a distinct trap, because artillery/controllers/lurkers are just as important - if not more important - than soldiers/brutes. Soldiers and brutes are there to entertain defenders and kill anyone else if ignored. Artillery and controllers are where you get your real damage/disruption in. Skirmishers fall in between those and Lurkers are when you get a good set up for a quick "picking off" of a wounded character. Also, I may seem to respond flippantly but this is because you're not the DM (I am meaning no offense by this either). Unless I know what your DM is trying to do and accomplish specifically, I can only give general responses. If I knew what he was trying to do specifically, I could help tweak encounters to a more reasonable standard in all departments: Terrain, composition etc. It's very hard to do that when I have no idea what monsters he's using, the terrain he's planning to use and what the overall "goal" of his encounter design is. </blockquote>

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