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<blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 4068773" data-attributes="member: 29206">Well, this works as long as you can choose when to end it. If all of us use encounter-duration buffs, kick down the door, and find two goblins and a hostile flying goldfish behind it, I would be dissatisfied if I couldn't kick down the next door and fight another battle while my buffs remained up just because &quot;two goblins and a hostile flying goldfish&quot; was an encounter, albeit a one-round and stupid one.With any luck, things will be set up such that &quot;Well, I want my powers to recharge, time to drop out of combat mode&quot; or &quot;You know, I'll stay in combat mode since I'm in a dungeon, buffed with a daily buff, and haven't used a single encounter power yet, and also not stupid&quot; is a choice characters can make.With unluck, you'll get stupid crap like not being able to use encounter powers outside of combat, even when they'd be useful, or people actually insisting that if you use the 4e equivalent of Bull's Strength to bash down a door that it wears off right after that because that was the encounter, not the horde of orcs inside the room.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imban, post: 4068773, member: 29206"] Well, this works as long as you can choose when to end it. If all of us use encounter-duration buffs, kick down the door, and find two goblins and a hostile flying goldfish behind it, I would be dissatisfied if I couldn't kick down the next door and fight another battle while my buffs remained up just because "two goblins and a hostile flying goldfish" was an encounter, albeit a one-round and stupid one. With any luck, things will be set up such that "Well, I want my powers to recharge, time to drop out of combat mode" or "You know, I'll stay in combat mode since I'm in a dungeon, buffed with a daily buff, and haven't used a single encounter power yet, and also not stupid" is a choice characters can make. With unluck, you'll get stupid crap like not being able to use encounter powers outside of combat, even when they'd be useful, or people actually insisting that if you use the 4e equivalent of Bull's Strength to bash down a door that it wears off right after that because that was the encounter, not the horde of orcs inside the room. [/QUOTE]

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