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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marshall" data-source="post: 5115007" data-attributes="member: 765">Arts is awful in the mechanics department, the story could be pretty decent if the DM knows to throw out all the monster tactics and set-ups so it isnt a TPK in the 1st 2 rounds of every combat. If you survived the last fight, you had a perfectly set up party or the DM went soft on you. Likely the latter, the monsters Init bonuses are appropriate for paragon level encounters, the party starts in fireball formation, the enemy artillery/leader has TWO Area Burst 2 powers that do paragon level damage with Daze and/or Prone effects, that wouldnt be bad but they are both <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/4.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":4:" title="Four    :4:" data-shortname=":4:" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/5.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":5:" title="Five    :5:" data-shortname=":5:" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/6.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":6:" title="Six    :6:" data-shortname=":6:" />  recharge. Combine the first three together and you get an automatically bloodied party with most members suffering from action loss before they get to act. Unless the party has area burst healing(very rare at that level) by round two you have 1/2 the party unc/dead and the rest running away.</blockquote>