Battle Cleric vs. Warlord

[Badapple]

@Blackbrrd

The inspiring warlord's ENCOUNTER powers are great. But his AT WILLS were not inspiring relative to the other 3 leaders. Commander's strike (taclord), righteous brand (str cleric), sacred flame (lazer) are much more awesome. Though honestly I enjoy rousing assault and wolf pack tactics.

The inspiring warlord in my above post actually happens to be my character, and he's lots of fun. I went with "shake it off" instead, but I have warlord's strike and war of attrition and they are very popular with the group.

 

[ValhallaGH]

For nova purposes, whether early combat or later (but really, why are we novaing at the end of combat?),

Because we're good at Nova: when we Nova, the combat is ended.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Oh, i forgot a reason, why battle clerics can make use of wisdom: warpriest paragon path. ^^ And multiclass fighter feats and maybe a paragon path like pit fighter.

 

[Blackbrrd]

@Blackbrrd

The inspiring warlord's ENCOUNTER powers are great. But his AT WILLS were not inspiring relative to the other 3 leaders. Commander's strike (taclord), righteous brand (str cleric), sacred flame (lazer) are much more awesome. Though honestly I enjoy rousing assault and wolf pack tactics.

The inspiring warlord in my above post actually happens to be my character, and he's lots of fun. I went with "shake it off" instead, but I have warlord's strike and war of attrition and they are very popular with the group.

Reading your post is obviously quite hard for me.

My view of this is that you eventually get 4 encounter powers. Usually you can select encounter powers that are better than your at-will powers. With 4 encounter powers available, it should take some time before you are reduced to at-will powers.

Personally I don't understand the focus on at-will powers. Already at level 7 you have 3 encounter powers.

When you are out of encounter powers the encounter is probably mostly finished and it doesn't matter that much that you have slack at-will's. At least if the party has focus fired well enough. If the encounter is hard, you probably should have switched to dailies earlier...

 

[Destil]

The inspiring warlord's ENCOUNTER powers are great.

This is another nice thing about warlods, especially in a large party: aid the Injured vs. Cure Light Wounds. Warlords tend to get more encounter heals, which in a big party with a lot of surges is great. Clerics get better but daily heals, which is better in a small party generally.