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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fedifensor" data-source="post: 4369962" data-attributes="member: 7289">Whoops!  That'll teach me to actually grab the book to double-check the power before I post...I understand the reluctance to have too many A powers, but this one really is that good.Depends on what god you worship... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It also depends on how you see your role.  A maul fighter trying to imitate a striker will love Brute Strike, while a sword-and-board defender will probably go for the healing instead.Righteous Brand helps one ally, and the cleric should be helping the strikers, not the defender (unless you're a maul fighter, in which case you'll probably take Brute Strike. The first level daily powers actually are [2W] with a bonus effect - Brute Strike gets [3W] because there is no other effect.Sounds good.  My take is that an +4 to hit by everyone for a turn, in addition to an effective [3W] damage, is absolutely amazing.Take a look at Prime Shot - the ranger gets the bonus if he's the closest to the target.  If you're the closest character to the target, and not in range for an OA, then chances are the slow effect will keep that foe from engaging someone.Then you've watched people with bad dice luck, or who waited too long to bring it out.  It can miss completely, but the odds aren't very high if you're optimized for ranged combat and taking advantage of Prime Shot.  And since you take the better roll, it either misses completely or hits perfectly.  The damage is strong enough to put a serious dent in normal monsters, but not enough to be overkill on a fresh monster (besides minions, of course).A young white dragon (level 3 solo brute) can drop a 1st level character in one round with three successful (non-crit) attack rolls.  2 claws plus bite average out to 29 hp, which goes up with good damage rolls or a crit on one of the attacks.  I fail to see how solos "really don't do that much damage".The majority of solos are dragons, who have reach and dragon breath.  They don't need to shift.Close blast and close burst.While it can hit allies, you choose where you move it.  As long as the party is working well together, this shouldn't be an issue.It depends on whether you read it as "prone and immobilized, until its next turn" or "prone, and immobilized until its next turn".</blockquote>

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