At-Will Powers

[jaldaen]

I posted this in the "Tiers of Play" thread, but I thought I'd expand on the idea as its own thread.

The Tiers of Play article says:

You know two at-will powers from your class; remember to increase damage if your level is 21st or higher.

Does that mean you only have two at-will powers that only increase in damage at 21st level?

Or do you think PCs will get more "at-will" powers?

I'm hoping PCs get more "at-will" powers as part of their paragon paths and epic destinies... and are simply not included on the powers by class level table b/c these powers are added at the choose class stage.

Is anyone else hoping for more at-will powers?

If you do not get more/different at will powers, then do you think there might be feats that augment your at-will powers (ala 3e warlock's eldritch blast)?

 

[keterys]

Whatever at-will powers they had should be on par with the at-will you start with... otherwise it devalues any that came before it (and possibly devalues some encounter powers, too)

So I'd not be surprised if you get at-wills for paragon and epic, but I wouldn't expect these powers to get all that much better. That's why you've got encounter and daily powers.

 

[jaldaen]

Whatever at-will powers they had should be on par with the at-will you start with... otherwise it devalues any that came before it (and possibly devalues some encounter powers, too)

I agree... I want at-will powers that help accentuate the paragon paths/epic destinies without overwhelming the per encounter/day powers.

 

[DandD]

It seems that you also do change lower-level powers with higher-level ones, so perhaps some at-will power at low level just get swapped with new ones.

 

[HeinorNY]

"Magic Missile Wizard Attack 1"

 

[jaldaen]

Another possibility is that you only get new at-will abilities at paragon level (the damage increase at epic "upgrades" your 1st level at-will powers)

 

[Simplicity]

I think you ALWAYS have 2 at-will powers, regardless of your level. My guess is that those at-will powers can be of your level or lower, and you can trade out those powers at level-up.

Note that the making higher-level characters seems to apply to any character from level 2 to 30... so 2 at-will. Since magic missile isn't going to cut it for level 30, there needs to be trade out.

 

[deathdonut]

All at-will powers will probably scale to 2[W] damage at level 21 like the rogue ones do (as shown in their preview).

This makes me think that the player will probably have only a few at-will powers to select from at level 1 and while he might be able to swap them out, they will probably not change in power until that player reaches his Epic tier.

 

[keterys]

Yeah, magic missile just gets to do 4d4 at 21st. Or whatever.

I don't think you're supposed to rely on at-wills as much as people think they are. I think you get two at first level, and you're done for picking them separate from your path/destiny/race.

 

[Stalker0]

At-wills don't increase a lot because they don't need to. Once you have 4 encounters and 3 or 4 dailies in your repertoire you aren't going to be using a lot of at-wills as often. That said, there's definitely the possibility for magic items, paragon paths, and feats to give you more at-will abilities.