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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Diamondew" data-source="post: 5104838" data-attributes="member: 5156">Myria at level 9 will probably have better AC and attack that the orc chieftain.AC 26 (+4 lvl+2 shield+2 enhancement+8 darkscale armor)Compared to the chieftain's 22Attack +13 (+4 level, +4 strength, +2 enhancement, +2 prof., +1 weapon talent)Compared to the chieftain's +11Damage 1d8+7 (+4 strength, +2 enhancement, +1 weapon focus)That averages the same as the chieftains 1d12+5 (at least before factoring in critical hits, which will about balance out).Mryria hits the chieftain's AC 60% of the time, he hit Myria's only 40% of the time.Assuming Myria uses three 2[w] encounters and a 3[w] daily during the 1st four rounds she'll deal 41.1 damage on average, the orc only 18.4.After that Myria will average 6.3 damage per round and the orc will average 4.6.After about 19 rounds of fighting the orc will have reduced Myria to less that hit points.  Myria will have the orc at about 41 hit points by this point.So the match up of an unoptimized fighter against the orc chief isn't as unbalanced as it seems at first, depending to the effects of her encounters and dailies she might win, using a power that has an encounter duration (rain of steel or boundless endurance) would definitely swing things in her favor. I think, as has been observe, the discrepancy in hit points goes back to the decision to make monsters/npcs and pcs quantitatively and qualitatively different in combat.  Which is something I can suspend my disbelief for when running or playing the game (in this case its easier at least, the orc is about +3 times the gnomes body weight).</blockquote>

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