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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orcus Porkus" data-source="post: 4581846" data-attributes="member: 76022">Being able to automatically save as  a free action for just 10 HP is making you the only character still marching on  while the rest is restrained, blinded, immobilized, whatever. In real game play  this is super important, more so than some damage increase or being invincible at  level 30.I scanned the MM and only found a few powers like the Dragon fear  where effects last until the end of the monster's next turn and thus can't be automatically saved against.Now take a dwarf with second wind as minor action, cloak of the  walking wounded, and items that help with saving against stunned effects,  grabbing, and pushing etc (in addition to the racial ability) and you have a guy  who is very difficult, if not impossible to stop. Since effects generally either reduce  hit points or prolong the battle, and prolonged battles lead to the loss of more  hit points, the investment of 10 HP is trivial in most cases, or effectively  an investment of just 5 HPs in cases where you prevent 5 ongoing damage and  also avoid rolling the dice.On top of it, the dreadnought gets 10 free HP to the  maximum, which means you get one or even TWO (in case of ongoing damage) free automatic saves per encounter (which by itself is extremely powerful already - no magic item, no other class power gives you that.) You also get temp HP powers.You can also worry less about low will and reflex defenses. Effects that target those are simply shrugged off.So, my character of choice now is a paragon  level Dwarf Barbarian Dreadnought. He deals tons of damage, is charging non-stop, and can't be immobolized or affected in any other way, and if the dragon or angel of valor comes along, he'll deal with it.</blockquote>

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