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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4358474" data-attributes="member: 2011">No, I think it is because I am a resource control player. Don't waste them. Use them effectively. If you didn't need them and didn't use them in a given encounter, that's ok.As an example, we had an encounter a few weeks back. 5 on 8 (but 4 were minions). We wiped the floor with the opposition in 3 or 4 rounds. The Paladin got slightly injured. Nobody else did and nobody else used up any Encounter Powers except the Eladrin Warlock (who btw, the player of which was not there and he was being played by another player) who used both his Encounter Attack Power and his Fey Step.A foe got away, so we chased him and ran into a really big nasty encounter. The Warlock got surrounded at one point and knocked unconsious. After the battle, we were talking about it and the player of the Warlock was asking why we continued on and didn't rest. We said because we didn't want that foe to get away. He said, "But if I would have had my encounter powers, I could have teleported away and zapped them. I would have never gone unconscious. I used them right away because the game is designed to use your Encounter powers every encounter".No, it's not. The game is designed to allow players to chose what they want to do and when they want to do it. Using which abilities when is a player choice. Even if someone decides to use Encounter powers every single encounter, that is their choice. Not WotC design.In the first encounter, he chose to use both Encounter abilities. He didn't have to (especially the Fey Step which was just haphazardly used). He burned through his Encounter abilities and about 8 rounds later, paid the price for doing so. Pros and Cons.This is just a discussion on different ways to play the game. The game is not designed either way. The game is designed to allow choices.And, that includes choices on which powers to take in the first place (more or less, the original conversation here).</blockquote>

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