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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4230189" data-attributes="member: 51325">As mentioned in the article, most monsters are out when subjected to 6-8 basic attacks. Encounter and Daily attacks are gnerally multiples of said basic attack. For simplicity, lets say an encounter power is 2xbasic attack and a daily is 3.You're fighting a monster that has a Bloody threshold (what should we call monsters that "trigger" at bloody?").Let's say it take 6 basic "hits" to take out the monster.If you open with an encounter power and then follow up with at-will attacks, you're looking at the followingRound 1: Encounter = 2hitsRound 2 : At-will, Monster become bloody.Rounds 3-5, you're fighting a much tougher creature as you'll need 3 more rounds to put the monster down.If you open with at-will attack until the monster is bloody, you get the following,Round 1-3: At-will, monster become bloody.Round 4: Encounter = 2 hitsRound 5: At will knocks out monsterSo instead of taking on a monster for 3 rounds when its super-strong, you only fight it for one round. Similarly the same thing even applies to the angel of valor. Your chance of HITTING with your encounter/daily power actually goes UP by 10% when it becomes bloody.Thus, it makes more sense to open with at-will until bloody THEN go to town with the big guns. Which is why I don't think the *problem* of PCs using dailies on minions will actually occur at least after people get experience with the system.</blockquote>

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