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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5640134" data-attributes="member: 82106">What I haven't yet heard anyone really consider is how all of this relates to close/area attacks, which would be drastically affected by any kind of change in stacking. The issues here are a lot more variable as some area attacking powers are problems, and others far less so. I'd also comment that all these complicated rules structures are both highly gamist and highly unintuitive to most players. I think there has to be a better way. Frankly my solution would be to simply eliminate the concept of multi-attacks entirely in some fashion. I don't know how that happens with area attacks but it seems relatively straightforward in the case of melee powers, simply make the multi-attack aspect a matter of fluff and of requirements. Perhaps the rules for close/area powers would simply be 'different'. Maybe in those cases total damage bonus is simply applied across all targets which are actually hit. Still a bit complicated but probably less annoying.</blockquote>