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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goumindong" data-source="post: 4771901" data-attributes="member: 70874">Monsters can use basic heuristics too. This is not something that is relegated only to your players and because of this your assertion falls apart.E.G. Lets say your fighters AC is 7 points higher than your wizards. That is a pretty big deal.However, lets say a single monster is in melee, and that single monster makes the decision that the extra damage that they do against others per turn is not offset by the extra damage that others do.E.G. lets say you hit for 8.2 average/attack and the enemies do 40 Damage per attack/round with a hit rate of 50% against you and 85% against your allies with another 10 damage per attack/round at 50% against you and 75% against your allies since he is marked. Well, that makes a total of 16.5 DPR at the margin for them all attacking you.But, if they aren't splitting their damage they save the DPR against themselves extending their ability to fight. AND they reduce the ability of players to spread healing around[second winds, etc] with self healing powers. The entire encounter has to have no ranged enemies because once the decision to attack the fighter is made[and its likely going to be at the beginning of the fight], attacking others becomes strictly inefficient. Interestingly however, as the fight goes on and enemies DPR drops, attacking the fighter becomes a better and better deal, possibly even negating the advantage of starting to attack someone else.In short, even with such a massive difference in AC, and such a weak average damage on your combat challenge, you're still going to make enemies think twice about simply having everyone gang up on you.[this also ignores your ability to toss out multiple marks with other powers, and the ability of enemies to target other defenses, like reflex which might be low, the ability of other players to have effects that change their AC or negate attacks]</blockquote>

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