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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4382642" data-attributes="member: 2011">Our Paladin player did and the analysis above supports it.However, the analysis above does not take into account Encounter powers, Daily powers, feats, or other Paragon Path abilities. It's quite possible that a Cha based Paladin is more effective than a Str based Paladin when one takes those into account.Based on just At-Will powers though, the Str Paladin would appear to be more effective than the Cha Paladin for two reasons: 1) The Str At-Will powers should on average result in fewer rounds of combat per encounter via taking out more opponents quicker, and 2) 4E is an offensive (and healing) system, not a defensive one. The way to kill real high level monsters is not through defensive attrition over 20 rounds, it's through offensive potency over 15 rounds. A dead opponent cannot counterattack (as a general rule, but we did have a killed undead get back up mid-combat on Saturday <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). If one does not take out monsters quickly in 4E, it gives them too many opportunities to take you out. 4E PC defensive abilities do not equate to quick.Note: I am a defensive player by nature. But, I still recognize that while defense is good to have in 4E, offense is better.</blockquote>

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