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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackbrrd" data-source="post: 5060538" data-attributes="member: 63962"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/270203-average-rounds-per-encounter.html#post5050674" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/270203-average-rounds-per-encounter.html#post5050674</a>You have a small party (4) with a two defenders and a leader. At higher levels the defenders get better at holding aggro etc and the leader gets better at buffing. None of which does too much good in the DPR department with only one striker.You have 25% of your party doing high DPR and 75% of your party doing low DPR.The DPR of a Leader can get very high, but that is dependant of enough Strikers to use the buffs a leader can give. If the leader is only going for healing he will have really low DPR anyway.My current party has:One leader, One defender a controller (Invoker, covenant of wrath - it's DPR) and 3 strikers. 33% of the party does low DPR. - The leader is a bard focusing on healing/moving and is not DPR. If he had been exchanged for a Warlord the party would have been down to 16% low DPR. The combats of my party does not increase by level or not noticeably so. We usually have combats lasting roughly 5 rounds and we manage about 4 combats a session (4 hours).My conclusion from this is that low DPR parties will have slower at slower combats the higher in level you get, while high DPR parties will have about the same combat length the whole time.You might argue about what is low DPR and not and you are right that the Fighter has some really nice close burst powers that can hit multiple targets, but that is exactly like the defender in my current party and he does less damage than the strikers. Furthermore I have only two categories, low and high. Your cleric and the bard in my party could probably sit in their own category "extra low", but it doesn't matter that much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The amusing part of my party is that if any one of the following characters are missing, my party start falling apart somehow: Fighter, Invoker, Ranger and Bard.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Fighter is vital to soak some damage away from for instance the Invoker. He also does a lot of battlefield control/AoE damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Invoker does a lot of damage early in the encounter since he targets 2+ enemies the whole time. Early encounter damage is much more worth than late encounter damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Archer Ranger finishes mobs, without him there isn't enough focus firing. A mob down early is more worth than a mob down later.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Bard keeps everybody alive and with his move powers it is really hard to flank this party.</li> </ul>The last two party members: a Barbarian and an Avenger are interchangeable with any other striker. They just do more damage.</blockquote>

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