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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vysirez" data-source="post: 4197619" data-attributes="member: 10204">Lots of interesting discussion on this. I will first admit that this post is going to ramble a bit.I do have to say that this is a lot what I expected from comments made by Devs. So I'm not surprised. I do agree that 4e multiclassing looks to lean more towards dabbling then full 50/50 split. But I'm not sure that it's as much toward dabbling as many fear. I think that the ability to take class specific feats and PPs will add more flexibility then the article seems to indicate at first.One thing I found amusing about 4e multiclassing is cherry picking. The Devs have stated that they didnt like cherry picking in 3.5 and so felt they had to design classes less frontloaded. But  when it comes to 4e mutliclassing, cherry picking is built in. I think that 4e multiclassing is balanced around the fact that you are going to cherry pick the best powers and best secondary class for your build.One comment I wanted to make on the 3e cleric taking a feat to get access to wizard spells. The counter arguements was that it was just 1 spell. But while sort of true, it's also kinda misleading. A spellcaster in 3e would have far more spells per day then a 4e character is going to have powers. So while 1 spell in 3e is a fairly small portion of your daily load, 1 power is a much larger chunk. An issue that has been discussed a bit in the thread is that not all powers are equal. While theoretically all classes are balanced overall, powers are not balanced between classes. A figher gets heavy armor, more hps, more healing surges. In return for this his powers are going to tend to be a bit weaker then a wizard. So a fighter picking up wizard powers is going to gain more then a wizard getting fighter powers. The question is how much of a difference is there, and does it break anything. All in all I think the 4e mutliclassing system will work well enough for me. What we have seen so far is a bit lacking, but I think once I see all the class specific feats, and the range of powers available, I think it will work fairly well. There will be a lot of options open since even if you have the same multiclass combo, say Fighter with Wizard multi, you still wont always take the same powers. Or the same feats. I really think getting access to class specific feats will make a bigger difference then some people seem to believe.</blockquote>

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