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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 4392159" data-attributes="member: 51942">Of course, 4e is still much better than 3.5 core at building this dream character - right?In 3.5 you'd have been stuck with dex as a throwing stat, and that's that - no way around it.  Now, at least you can use hammers or axes viably as a ranger's off hand weapon - pretty excellently actually, since you can use the ranged attack when necessary, and many ranger melee powers which require you to wield two weapons actually let you use just one for all attacks (notably all close burst abilities, and things like attacks on the run).  So it's probably a little weaker - but still a lot stronger than in 3.5 it ever could have been.It's a significant boost to allow strength to be used as the primary stat in dex based powers.  I'm not sure it's really reasonable to allow that.  Perhaps a feat to allow str to replace dex as the damage portion for such powers?In any case, this disadvantage is only really a problem for the ranger.  A Fighter could just take quickdraw and use basic attacks, especially since he has no powers anyway.  That would allow him to wield a more powerful two-handed weapon as well, quickdrawing the throwing hammers/axes as necessary while holding the two handed weapon in one hand.</blockquote>