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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 5407718" data-attributes="member: 30022">I DM'ed a battlemind with brutal barrage, up 'til about lvl 19. Yeah, it's a good power. But let me tell you how it gets truly brutal.He was in a party with a minotaur warden with several "knock prone" powers, and a cleric with the sever the source 17th level encounter power. The battlemind had taken the Headsman's Chop feat, for +5 damage against prone opponents.The minotaur would knock an opponent prone and the cleric would use sever the source. For those who aren't familiar with it, sever gives a single target vulnerability to all damage equal to 10 + Wis mod. No attack roll needed, lasts until the end of the cleric's next turn.The battlemind then comes in with brutal barrage, dropping the extra power point. 12 damage per hit, plus vulnerable 16 per hit. 4 attacks. Action point. Repeat.Even with no crits, he was pulling over 200 points of damage in one round, per encounter. Note that this is without any special magic items, racial powers, or other strangeness. Using only 2 power points, 1 action point, and no daily powers.Despite 4E's vastly better balance than previous editions, there are still some crazy anomalies out there. Brutal barrage, like most multi-attack powers, is quite vulnerable to exploitation. The biggest problem, as has been previously pointed out, is that it is "virtually" an at-will power due to the low PP augmentation cost.</blockquote>