Confused with Fighter class features

[TimeOut]

If I have the shield push power (allows you to push an opponent you hit with your combat challenge attack), I assume this lets me interrupt marked opponents attacks against allies, and possibly make the attacks fail if I can knock them out of range, right?

Yes.

Similarly, if an ally moves and provokes an OA from a marked opponent, I can interrupt the OA, push the opponent back causing the OA to fail (assuming the creature is now out of range of the ally). Does this count as a USE of the OA for that creature on that allies turn?

How do you interrupt the OA?

But if that is possible, yes.

 

[Chen_93]

How do you interrupt the OA?

But if that is possible, yes.

The marked target is attacking a target other than myself. This allows me to attack it with combat challenge.

 

[TimeOut]

The marked target is attacking a target other than myself. This allows me to attack it with combat challenge.

Ah sure, I only remembered the movement aspect of it. My bad, you are right.

Yes, it would interrupt the OA if the target is out of range. And I would say that it is spent, because it was attempted but failed due to an interrupt.

 

[Bagpuss]

Ok, so Combat Challenge allows you to make a "basic melee attack as an inmediate interrupt".

So, this does not count as an OA

Right and yet, if you look at the feat table (pg 196)...

Distracting Shield:Target hit by opportunity attack takes –2 to attack rolls.

Thankfully the feat itself (pg 194) makes no mention of opportunity attacks.

Same with Potent Challenge in the table it talks about opportunity attack, but in the Feat itself it makes no mention.

Looks like at some point in development it went from being an opportunity attack to a special immediate action.

 

[Ginnel]

Wait a minute, so is a dragborn fighter / fighter/wizard able to mark multiple opponents with a breath weapon/scorching blast?

I have ruled that he can as the rules are written.

Yup I can and thats all the spell will (its thunderwave by the way) be useful for, cause with 13 int at the moment I ain't gonna be hitting diddly squat

 

[vagabundo]

Wait a minute, so is a dragborn fighter / fighter/wizard able to mark multiple opponents with a breath weapon/scorching blast?

I have ruled that he can as the rules are written.

hmm I thought it was limited to one target at a time, but it seems not...

 

[Zaruthustran]

This. Also, if you make Combat Challenge into an OA you turn the fighter from "front-line warrior who can keep enemies focused on him" to "nigh-impenetrable bulwark of whirling savagery." If Combat Challenge keyed off of OA-improving abilities, it would become pretty ridiculously powerful pretty quickly.

For an example, play a fighter, take the cleric multiclass feat, and go with the Warpriest paragon path. Warpriest Challenge works like the fighter's Combat Challenge, except you get to make an OA instead of a basic attack--and the target doesn't have to be adjacent.

That's a pretty big deal.

Why? Because Combat Superiority kicks in. Now when a marked enemy shifts or attacks, you can attack him with + Wis and if you hit, he stops moving. Layer on feats like Heavy Blade Opportunity, Polearm Gamble, and the "+ to your OA attacks" feats, and it gets pretty ugly.

Here's a build: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=4269960

 

[grolch]

Making combat challenge an OA would also affect the 1 in the opponents turn maximum. As I read Combat superiority if you have actions left, you can move again so the only time i see this turn into super stickiness is if the monster is restricted to one action (daze and so on) or if the monster really need to attack some else in that exact turn.

On that note is a Charge seen as a move or an attack with regards to Combat Superiority?

 

[sfedi]

On that note is a Charge seen as a move or an attack with regards to Combat Superiority?

I think it´s a move if the enemy starts adjacent to the fighter.

And an attack if he ends his movement adjacent to the fighter and attacks.

 

[rbingham2000]

Basically, if an opponent that the fighter has marked does a shift and the fighter hits with his interrupt attack, that particular attempt to shift is canceled, but the opponent can still give up his attack for the round to make another move action without the interrupt to try to get away or get past him (though if he tries to move more than one square instead of shifting, the fighter then gets an OA on him). If another opponent that the fighter has marked tries to shift, the fighter gets to do the exact same thing to him, with the exact same results if the fighter hits.