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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parlan" data-source="post: 4694646" data-attributes="member: 16808">It's simple, but it's not a "fix". 1. Melee attacks are boring.  Maybe this suits your vision of a game world, but it's a step backward for me.  A rogue getting to shift a couple squares into flanking position before striking, or a Fighter using Tide of Iron to push an opponent off of a bridge and into lava, that gives players options and makes encounters more interesting.More interesting than having no options other than to slug it out toe to toe, "I missed. I hit, 6 dmg.  I hit, 7 dmg. I missed..."2. Magic Missile is Uninspired, but no Worse than 3eI agree, it's a pretty boring At-Will.  It's the magical equivalent of slugging it out toe-to-toe.  However, Wizards have plenty of other options for At-Wills, ones that let them Push, Slow etc.  4e Wizards have some interesting At-Will options. Still, MM is no worse than 3e.  The argument that MM being more "special" because it could only be cast a certain number of times per day holds no water.  It was cast multiple times in every encounter I've played in.  Being cast half a million times in the course of a campaign instead of a million didn't make it any more "special" for me.  3. Increasing the Number of Encounter/Daily Powers won't compensate for the Lack of At-Wills.Encounters/Dailies do, on average, 2W or 3W.  Since the ability modifier only gets added once, this means that Encounters/Dailies only increase the damage by 50%-100% or so.  If they hit. That's not going to shorten the length of encounters in any meaningful way, when opponents have more HP.  In short, I don't see how the OP's proposals do anything but make the game *less* fun.  If I want less fun, I could just go back to RL.</blockquote>

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