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<blockquote data-quote="Angellis_ater" data-source="post: 4841564" data-attributes="member: 37442">Ok, one of my players has built his ranger into a level 13 (beastmaster) ranger with paragon multiclassing into Barbarian. And he's devastating the battlefield - to such a degree that nothing of equal level is a challenge to the party anymore.Wielding an Executioners Axe his frigging At-Will - Devastating Strike -(with power attack) against a Quarry is an amazing 1d12+4d8+16 (+6 from Power Attack, +5 from Strength, +3 from Enhancement, +2 from Iron Armbands). This is an impossibly high number, he regularly reduces 100+ HP enemies to dust in 1-2 rounds. His average, for the at will is 41 damage. Once he starts whipping out Rages, Dailies and more - I'm weeping and the rest of the crew are mostly relegated to providing the occasional flanking (when his doggy isn't close enough) or healing him.Now - I've contemplated asking the player to change to a new character (and he seems interested in playing a Druid) - but this seems more of a systematic problem with the Barbarian having his &quot;bonus striker damage&quot; incorporated into his powers instead of as a separate class feature. I can, without a problem, see a Str/Dex Rogue MC into Barbarian and be almost as dangerous (except there won't be as big of a weapon).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angellis_ater, post: 4841564, member: 37442"] Ok, one of my players has built his ranger into a level 13 (beastmaster) ranger with paragon multiclassing into Barbarian. And he's devastating the battlefield - to such a degree that nothing of equal level is a challenge to the party anymore. Wielding an Executioners Axe his frigging At-Will - Devastating Strike -(with power attack) against a Quarry is an amazing 1d12+4d8+16 (+6 from Power Attack, +5 from Strength, +3 from Enhancement, +2 from Iron Armbands). This is an impossibly high number, he regularly reduces 100+ HP enemies to dust in 1-2 rounds. His average, for the at will is 41 damage. Once he starts whipping out Rages, Dailies and more - I'm weeping and the rest of the crew are mostly relegated to providing the occasional flanking (when his doggy isn't close enough) or healing him. Now - I've contemplated asking the player to change to a new character (and he seems interested in playing a Druid) - but this seems more of a systematic problem with the Barbarian having his "bonus striker damage" incorporated into his powers instead of as a separate class feature. I can, without a problem, see a Str/Dex Rogue MC into Barbarian and be almost as dangerous (except there won't be as big of a weapon). [/QUOTE]

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