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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5545746" data-attributes="member: 78116">It's not over valuing something that can make a power do absolutely nothing. 4E is a game about hitting and not hitting with powers is really much more obnoxious than a bit of damage. Maximizing bonuses to hit is essential in 4E. For example moving and provoking an OA by a Knight, to suffer a bit of damage to move into flanking against the leader is a no brainer choice. Not to mention the effective +4 to hit (+2 from CA and +2 from having no mark of any sort) is just more efficient. When doing the same thing wastes an entire round on a suboptimal action, or results in the power missing then it was just taking damage for no benefit (so I'm unlikely to do it).Additionally it's worth noting I am used to players using many reactions/interrupts that impose penalties (or bonuses) to their defenses. The effect of stacking all of these can make key powers useless. Of course this is entirely what make 4E a fascinating tactical game to me!Depends on the defender to be honest. I view the aura as a constant threat, with the creature being aware of the heightened sense of the Knight/Cavalier within (The Cavalier is more of a divine presence). The Paladin is a divine compulsion. The Fighter is just an incredibly savvy individual who constantly harries and worries the creature that they could turn around, and he'll be there etc. Yeah, I wouldn't think that would be a bad idea at all and I do recommend it. In the previous game I mentioned above, the Knight used a gouge (my PoL setting allows everything if the player can justify it) and basically used a lot of charging. It was actually quite interesting because it was almost an adaptation to my general habits. The fact most monsters left (or pushed him away to do something elsewhere) meant that he charged a lot. I actually ended up sometimes keeping creatures adjacent just to stop him charging. He eventually changed to a weaponmaster though, so I never got to see how that evolved out over heroic tier (and then the game stopped at around level 7 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />).</blockquote>

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