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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pseudopsyche" data-source="post: 5368688" data-attributes="member: 54600">I assume that the target audience for Class Compendium is players who came in with Essentials and therefore don't have PHB1.  In this sense, it does replace PHB1, in that instead of keeping PHB1 in print so that new players have access to its builds, WotC is rereleasing crunch from that book in the new Essentials format.On the other hand, I really don't see Class Compendium or Essentials in general as a wholesale replacement for the previous 4E material.  I suspect that WotC wants established players to see Essentials as additional splat books that happen also to be targeted at new players.  If you wonder why Class Compendium doesn't reference Martial Power, you may as well wonder why a new Class Acts article for fighters in Dragon doesn't mention the tempest fighter.Probably the only established players (who own PHB1) that should buy Class Compendium are either completists or those who would have considered replacing their PHB1 with a reprint that includes rules updates.  To answer your original question, anyone who buys Class Compendium is assumed already to own either (a) PHB1 or (b) Heroes of the Fallen Lands or Forgotten Kingdoms or possibly (c) the Rules Compendium.</blockquote>