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<blockquote data-quote="nogray" data-source="post: 5801692" data-attributes="member: 28028">Default Fighters have two separate abilities that are often confused. They are Combat Challenge and Combat Superiority.The first, Combat Challenge, is their mark punishment (and the feature is also what allows them to mark any target they attack). It is an Immediate Interrupt that is triggered by an opponent shifting or making an attack that doesn't include the fighter. As an immediate action, it can only happen once per round.The second, Combat Superiority, is an augmentation of opportunity attacks. It provides a bonus on the attack roll and if the OA was triggered by movement, it stops that movement.The two are very similar, but don't interact. Even after the Combat Challenge has been used, a Fighter still benefits from the bonus-to-opportunity-attack-rolls and movement-stopping Combat Superiority. The Combat Superiority bonus to attack rolls and movement stoppage does not apply to the attack granted by Combat Challenge, as that is not an opportunity attack.This is even true when one action provokes both. An enemy adjacent to a fighter that has it marked could make a ranged or area attack (which provokes an opportunity attack that would benefit from Combat Superiority) at a group of the fighter's allies and not include the fighter (which would provoke the Combat Challenge attack). It's not a smart move on the part of the enemy, but it could happen. In that case, the Fighter could technically make two basic attacks (one with a bonus to the attack roll) before the enemy resolved its attack against his allies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nogray, post: 5801692, member: 28028"] Default Fighters have two separate abilities that are often confused. They are Combat Challenge and Combat Superiority. The first, Combat Challenge, is their mark punishment (and the feature is also what allows them to mark any target they attack). It is an Immediate Interrupt that is triggered by an opponent shifting or making an attack that doesn't include the fighter. As an immediate action, it can only happen once per round. The second, Combat Superiority, is an augmentation of opportunity attacks. It provides a bonus on the attack roll and if the OA was triggered by movement, it stops that movement. The two are very similar, but don't interact. Even after the Combat Challenge has been used, a Fighter still benefits from the bonus-to-opportunity-attack-rolls and movement-stopping Combat Superiority. The Combat Superiority bonus to attack rolls and movement stoppage does not apply to the attack granted by Combat Challenge, as that is not an opportunity attack. This is even true when one action provokes both. An enemy adjacent to a fighter that has it marked could make a ranged or area attack (which provokes an opportunity attack that would benefit from Combat Superiority) at a group of the fighter's allies and not include the fighter (which would provoke the Combat Challenge attack). It's not a smart move on the part of the enemy, but it could happen. In that case, the Fighter could technically make two basic attacks (one with a bonus to the attack roll) before the enemy resolved its attack against his allies. [/QUOTE]

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