Essentials Rogue is up!

[JohnSnow]

It becomes gradually more significant and at-wills become gradually less significant over the course of levelling.... doesnt it. So at what level are you wanting the wizards to completely outshine the warriors all over again.

Ah, but if the Essentials character gets stronger at-wills and encounter powers, the question becomes whether he has to have dailies in order to keep up.

Although I have had the conversation on the WotC boards that there are ways to get the rough equivalent of dailies by building in a power of the same level that isn't actually a "daily," but one that can be triggered, say, every 4 encounters (or however often the designers expect dailies to be used).

Such a thing would be mathematically equivalent and would be, on average, balanced.

 

[Garthanos]

Ah, but if the Essentials character gets stronger at-wills and encounter powers, the question becomes whether he has to have dailies in order to keep up.

It isnt about keeping up.. never was... you can plod through and never get the visible burst of distinction effect.

Although I have had the conversation on the WotC boards that there are ways to get the rough equivalent of dailies by building in a power of the same level that isn't actually a "daily," but one that can be triggered, say, every 4 encounters (or however often the designers expect dailies to be used).

Such a thing would be mathematically equivalent and would be, on average, balanced.

Sure and the climactic spotlight effect can be accomplished other ways than by dailies ... it occurred to me that dailies seem often used along side action points so having something like paragon path boosts on your action point effects early on as class features could be almost seem-less... ie they would be almost "nothing new" but if they kicked in at lower levels?