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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5646478" data-attributes="member: 87792">I ran the math on them with Bladesong up.  And found that at +2 to hit and +5/tier damage you had dailies that compared favourably with sorceror dailies even allowing for the sorceror's damage bonusses (the sorceror only wishes he had Chain Lightning with bonusses to hit and damage as a daily).  When you're out AoE damaging the best AoE striker's dailies you have nothing to complain about.  And they get a second bonus to close blasts that the sorceror doesn't get - a decent AC and a decent number of hit points so wandering onto the front line is not life threatening.  Bladesong is the first two rounds of a fight.  Which is ... scary.  It's front loaded each fight like the assassin.  Wrong niche.  Warlock or Hunter would be better comparisons. Three wizard encounters.  The fourth is from the Paragon Path - and as Bladesingers can get Wizard Paragon Paths this can get scary.  +2 to hit and +5 damage on a large wizard burst or blast is ... impressive.  Plus you're ignoring that wizards are squishy backline fighters, bladesingers are able to hang with the tanks while getting wizardy-things like cantrips. Knights, Slayers, and Scouts get Power Strike as their only encounter power.  Thieves get Backstab and Hunters get Disruptive Shot.  All they get is more uses of these powers - but they had them from level 1.  Bladesingers on the other hand get different bonusses as they level.</blockquote>

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