Anyone played a scout?

[BobTheNob]

I was playing around with the CB the other day, more specifically planning my Hexblade for the coming campaign. We are starting at level 8

After I did that, just for comparison, I put together a Scout of the same level. At the end, I frowned. Despite all of my optomising the end result was, relatively, lackluster.

I found with the hexblade, his damage out of the box was pretty good, leaving me free to dedicate feats to survivability (emphasis healing surges and value, defences). But with the scout, he didnt really do much until you started throwing feats at his damage. He just sorta seemed a little "underpowered"

Top that off, he is the only essentials striker without the ability to put his striker damage "onto" a ranged attack. (The slayer, theif and hexblade all have a ranged option that can apply striker damage)

But I cant draw conclusions from on-paper alone.

Has anyone played a scout? What is your experience?

 

[Damon_Tor]

Well, your encounter power is non-functional, since you can't use it on the same turn as your striker damage feature, and the striker damage feature is always a better option.

So there's that.

Out of the box, your at-will damage is going to be very high, escpecially with, say, a Revenant (Dwarf) with Dwarven Weapon Training and a Doubleaxe, but I strongly suspect you'll become bored with the class in short order. "What are you going to do this turn?" "Uh.... Deeeeeerp?"

Especially coming from a hexblade, which at least has some attack powers to use now and then.