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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4243308" data-attributes="member: 48965">I feel like you are still missing the point...it actually is just as good with more than one monster.  Let's say you have monster A, B, C, D all 8 "hit" monsters.  Now here's two examples of combat....1st combat PC's (5) use at will powers (1 hit) first....so even if they gang up on one monster it still isn't enough "hits" to take him out of the fight. 5*1=5.  This means on the monsters turn they now have 4 total attacks against the players.Monster A (3/8 hits) attksMonster B, C, & D(8/8 hits) attksTotal attks for monster on their turn is 42nd combat PC's use encounter powers (2 hits) first...so now if they gang up on a monster they can actually kill one this round and bring another down so that it has 6 out of 8 hits left. 5*2=10.  This means the next round they only have to worry about 3 attacks instead of 4 on the next round they will suffer the 3 attacks again unless they burn the daily.Monster A (0/8 hits) no attkMonster B (6/8 hits) attkMonster C & D (8/8 hits) attkTotal attks for monster on their turn is 33rd combat PC's use daily powers (3 hits) first...so now if they gang up on monsters they will kill one and bring a second down to 1 out of 8 hits left.  5*3=15 . Thhis means in then next round they will deal with 3 attacks and the following round only 2 attacks (regardless if they use encounter or daily attacks) from the monsters.Monster A (0/8 hits) no attkMonster B (1/8 hits) attkMonster C & D  (8/8 hits) attkTotal attks for monster on their turn is 3So here we see that you can lessen attrition of your party's hit points (and thus chance of dying) by opening with the daily then the encounter (which kills Monster B & C) then using the daily once there is only one monster to worry about.Doing it in reverse means your party will take more damage from attacks by the monsters and thus there ius a greater chance you can be knocked unconscious or die before using the encounter or daily powers.</blockquote>

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