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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4129351" data-attributes="member: 58197">This seems disingenuous.  Obviously everybody wants to use their defensive abilities at beneficial times, but how is the paladin supposed to know when a "big gun power" is about to be unleashed, let alone whom it's going to be unleashed at?  All he can do is smite, throw his defensive boost on whoever looks like eating a lot of attacks next round, and hope for the best.  The wizard can wait until he actually sees an incoming Horrific Spell of Doom--not only that, he can even wait until he knows the spell is going to hit--and only then expend his Displacement power.Yeah, the HSoD might only do 5 points of damage, but much more likely it's going to do something a whole lot nastier.This is a HUGE advantage to Displacement.  Mobile defense trumps fixed defense by a mile, and that's what we're comparing here.  Shielding Smite is very easy to bypass; pick a different target or wait 1 round.  Displacement cannot be bypassed, ever.Somehow I think a 16th-level wizard attack power will do rather more damage than Shielding Smite.  With Shielding Smite, the defensive power is inextricably tied to the offensive.  Displacement can accompany any attack power at any level.It doesn't mean there are such powers, either.  Can you produce one?</blockquote>