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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 4456150" data-attributes="member: 5889">As others have mentioned in this thread, the marks are designed to provide the monster's an incentive to attack the fighter or paladin instead of the rest of the group. However, the incentive is proportional to how hard the fighter is to hit compared to the rest of the party. If the fighter's AC is 4 higher for example, well then its a pretty good idea for the monster to attack someone else. If the fighter's AC is only 1 higher, then heck hitting another character is actually a detriment to the monster because of the -2, so its much more likely to hit the fighter.In other words, the monster (the DM) chooses how useful the mark is, and so the fighter actually has to adjust his build to make his character for appetizing for the monster to choose.With the swordmage that doesn't happen. The swordmage's mark isn't about defending a fellow player from attacks, but from damage. If your marked by a swordmage, the rest of the party will take less damage, regardless of whether the monster chooses to attack the swordmage or not.</blockquote>