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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5535303" data-attributes="member: 78116">Simple observation as one is much more effective than the other at stopping movement. I already pointed out my default is to walk away from defenders half the time anyway. Like a battlemind will follow you with blurred step and then get an OA for example if you shift + charge. So you might as well not bother shifting, just move and attack if you have a superior power.Because the point isn't to avoid anything specifically about the Knight, he just happens to suffer the most because what I'm doing is getting the monster in the best position to use whatever power I am intending. And shift+charge isn't effective at that (unless it was an MBA). The weaponmaster is the only character I don't do this to often because it basically never works.Yes. Interrupts and opportunity attacks can be differentiated. The PCs have exactly the same knowledge for the most part. For example, I specify what attacks are interrupts and opportunity attacks - I always have actually. Yeah, quite consistently actually because many other classes have terrible MBAs - including many strictly melee classes. I have often provoked attacks from other classes as well. This is only coming up in this thread because I'm talking about the Knight, but I pretty much provoke from everyone if the situation seems advantageous. Again, that is actually just observation and depends on the intelligence of the creature. Things like dragons have fought countless battles and so are innately familiar with the kinds of tricks that heroes have. A zombie, not so much.Yes.Why wouldn't I? Do you think I have a monster sit in terror of the wizards terribly threatening OA with his staff?Why would they? You can frequently move into a much better position in the first place and with little risk. Many monsters aren't idiots and can determine the same information the PCs can about how things work. Shifting in this situation though would be to avoid OAs from characters that were not the knight, like a nearby thief. There are numerous examples where I will deliberately not shift and provoke from the thief, to avoid a weaponmasters OA. I'd sooner take the thieves OA than lose the entire move action.</blockquote>

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