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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4497547" data-attributes="member: 51325">re: Swordmage Er, I thought the consensus was that a paladin was just plain tougher than the defending swordmage whereas the fighter still exceeded the assault swordmage in terms of DPR. I'm be interested in seeing the consensus that the swordmage was actually better. re: RAGEI think one fundamental decision point was made by WOTC here. How they see RAGE being used. If you see RAGE as something the barbarian should do in ALL fights (Easy, standard and Challenging), then Rage should be an encounter power. However, WOTC's designers believe RAGE should be invoked only when the barbariam has his back to the wall (challenging fight) and as such, the Rage mechanic is tied to the dailies. re: MulticlassingThis is why we have the feat system. I don't see a ranger or rogue picking up any of the encounter level powers since a ranger still does more damage anyway whereas the rogue's abilities mostly key off of Dex and for a rogue, ranger encounter powers are still better.  Even with full level paragon multiclassing, I'm still not convinced it's better in terms of DPR than to go either Pit fighter or Kensei. re: RAGE StrikeLike others, when I read it first, I got the idea it WAS intended to allow for the barbarian to NOVA like the other classes. Otherwise, each daily would have to have those extra lines built into the power description.</blockquote>