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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 4859980" data-attributes="member: 994">As the DM for the adventures a couple nights ago I'll jump in and try to answer this. Nail used Crushing Surge pretty much any time an at-will was used; basically every round he wasn't using an Encounter or Daily power. At level 5 that's about half of attacks for these two combats which I think lasted 6-7 rounds each.We had a new low in the "number of players who made it to the session" this past Wednesday, a whopping 3, so it was Nail's BRV Fighter, a Battle Cleric and a TacLord on the PC team.For the first battle they were up against a level 9 brute, a level 4 brute and a level 4 artillerist, so only 1 foe apiece. All 3 PCs charged up and Nail was able to keep at least 1 foe marked each round, sometimes two with the TacLord's Commander's Strike and other attack granting abilities. He picked on the big guy most rounds and any temporary hp he had were generally stripped away by the big guy so I think he only got the BRV damage bonus once. There weren't really too many non-marked monsters that could attack him in this battle.For the second battle the threesome were on a rocky ledge and attacked by 3 Fire Bats (level 5) and a Firelasher (level 8 IIRC). They stayed pretty clumped up surprisingly which allowed a lot of fun strafing runs for me throughout the battle. That meant that he was taking at least one or two extra hits most rounds from non-marked enemies. The only times he got the damage bonus here I think was due to the TacLord's powers.Right, so with the current BRV errata do you feel that chain & scale are reasonably balanced choices for the BRV Fighter? I'm not convinced they aren't, but I do feel the funky chain-related-BRV-tempHP bonus isn't really worth the bother of the bookkeeping it requires. Previously the bonus was always relevant, that is, when Nail hit something the extra damage automatically kicked in, so he could more easily keep track of his damage bonus by figuring it in all the time. Now it's another thing to pay attention to each & every round. "Hey! I hit! So that's +8, oh wait, I have some temp hp so add the extra..."Bleah. I wish the bonus was somehow...cleaner to implement, less fussiness required. I *do* think the BRV changes are good, that the errata themselves are big step forward. WotC did a great job, IMHO, addressing these issues. But this little bit seems to sit funny with me; I think it needs tweaked somehow, just not sure how. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /></blockquote>

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