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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlagMortar" data-source="post: 4200640" data-attributes="member: 24821">Consider these two scenarios, one with a halfling fighter and one with a dwarven fighter:Scenario 1:  A halfling fighter (with higher AC than the party, but not many more hit points or healing surges) and his friends are fighting a monster.  The monster can decide to attack the halfling who it is likely to miss or the monster can attack his squishy friends with a -2 penalty.  You are saying that in this case the monster will attack the halfling's friends because the monster is more likely to hit them.Scenario 2:  A dwarf fighter (with similar AC to his party, but more hit points and healing surges) and his friends are fighting a monster.  The monster can decide to target the dwarf who will easily shrug off the attacks due to his high hit points, healing surges, and second wind or the monster can target the his squishy friends with -2 penalty.  You are saying in this case the monster will attack the dwarf instead of his friends because they can hit the dwarf.  However, if the dwarf has gobs and gobs of hit points (or potential hitpoints through the use of healing surges), then the monster's attacks that hit the dwarf are not really much more effective than the attacks that miss the halfling.  A defender with lots of healing surges actually may provide more incentive to attack his friends who are capable of triggering a healing surge.  Why does the monster care that the fighter is shrugging off its attacks due to lots of hit points or due high AC?  In either case it is going to take awhile to get rid of the defender.</blockquote>

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