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<blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5045884" data-attributes="member: 61155">This has been my experience. Our group is hitting the high paragon levels, and missing is a real rarity - and even when our DM throws tougher monsters at us, that is when people bust out their own modifiers to overcome the additional defenses. Our last fight was against an enormous monster that was being empowered by a group of druids, who were channeling energy into it (in the form of something like +5 or +10 to all Defenses). We clearly were intended to take them down before focusing on the monster, removing its buffs. Instead, the group still unloaded into it, still hitting more than half the time, even with the extra defenses. &nbsp;I have disliked the implementation of the Expertise feats from the start, and have always been dubious of the need for them. Now, more than ever, I think they exist to fix a problem that never existed in the first place.&nbsp;By higher levels, characters just have enough conditional bonuses, or powers that grant bonuses/inflict penalties, or ways to constantly have combat advantage, that they easily make up for the 3 or so points of accuracy that are 'lost' over the course of levelling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrMyth, post: 5045884, member: 61155"] This has been my experience. Our group is hitting the high paragon levels, and missing is a real rarity - and even when our DM throws tougher monsters at us, that is when people bust out their own modifiers to overcome the additional defenses. Our last fight was against an enormous monster that was being empowered by a group of druids, who were channeling energy into it (in the form of something like +5 or +10 to all Defenses). We clearly were intended to take them down before focusing on the monster, removing its buffs. Instead, the group still unloaded into it, still hitting more than half the time, even with the extra defenses. I have disliked the implementation of the Expertise feats from the start, and have always been dubious of the need for them. Now, more than ever, I think they exist to fix a problem that never existed in the first place. By higher levels, characters just have enough conditional bonuses, or powers that grant bonuses/inflict penalties, or ways to constantly have combat advantage, that they easily make up for the 3 or so points of accuracy that are 'lost' over the course of levelling. [/QUOTE]

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