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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5745740" data-attributes="member: 58416">Stun-locking can be bad at higher levels, but there are actually worse things.  In particular, there's what I suppose you could call 'Dom-locking.'  The party wizard which was part of the party I was talking about had a lot of dominated (save ends) powers; he also had a lot of things (such as Phrenic Crown) which gave penalties to saves.  If I remember correctly, he even had some good synergy with the Bard; the Bard had a power which was called Ballad of Misfortune or something like that which gave creatures a -5 to saves... the point being that -if the party couldn't kill it- there were encounters in which some of the enemy spent a lot of their time fighting for us.The party composition was a Goliath Fighter who multiclassed into Barbarian a little bit; a Goliath Barbarian who multiclassed into Fighter a little bit, an Eladrin Wizard who had some kind of Paragon Path that could make him invisible a lot & he eventually went Arch-Lich; a Dragonborn Warlord, and a Half-Elf Bard who multiclassed enough that I think he counted as at least 5 or 6 different classes & also took an epic destiny which allowed him to start counting as different races.  I'm unsure of the paragon paths and epic destinies for the Goliath characters and the Dragonborn.  The most devastating combo involved the Warlord and the Bard.  The Warlord had some sort of daily power which granted the rest of the party basic attacks whenever someone in the party would score a critical hit.  I don't remember the name of the power offhand and the specifics of how exactly it worked; I just remember the general idea behind the power.  The Bard had a power which I think was called Climactic Chord which allowed all allies in a burst 10 to either make an at-will attack or a basic attack; the same Bard also had Haste and various other powers which would grant attacks to the party.  With the amount of rolling that was involved when both characters would combine their efforts, the odds of at least 1 critical being rolled were pretty high; it would set off a chain of attacks.</blockquote>

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