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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5473613" data-attributes="member: 2067">Great summary, Merric!I guess I'm saying that support for Essentials *is* support for the rest of the stuff. My cleric has more options with the Warpriest than she did before, and much more than was in Martial Power 2. I get that I won't be able to use ALL the warpriest options if I play my cleric, but that's no different than a new cleric build in Divine Power 2. I wouldn't be able to use all the options there, either. The format is different, and there might not be as much as there was before, but there's not as many books as there were before, either. And I cannot see getting upset because you can't use 100% of a new book. You could never use 100% of a new book. There were chunks of Martial Power 2 that were useless to 4.0 fighters, just as there will be chunks of future books that are useless to 4.0 fighters. So, the new books DO provide options for the older classes, and even if your particular specific class isn't represented in a particular book, it's not like that's a new phenomenon, and it's not like there isn't 2 years worth of material for you to cull from that isn't this particular book. Blackguards will provide paladin options. Necromancers will provide wizard options. Hexblades will provide warlock options. Races will provide everyone new character options. Feats will provide everyone (and probably especially stealthy characters) options. I don't imagine future books will be much different in this respect. Even if they continue to go with essentials design principles in the future, that doesn't mean you can't take a particular power or feat, if you find that it works for you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5473613, member: 2067"] Great summary, Merric! I guess I'm saying that support for Essentials *is* support for the rest of the stuff. My cleric has more options with the Warpriest than she did before, and much more than was in [I]Martial Power 2[/I]. I get that I won't be able to use ALL the warpriest options if I play my cleric, but that's no different than a new cleric build in [I]Divine Power 2[/I]. I wouldn't be able to use all the options there, either. The format is different, and there might not be as much as there was before, but there's not as many books as there were before, either. And I cannot see getting upset because you can't use 100% of a new book. You could [I]never[/I] use 100% of a new book. There were chunks of [I]Martial Power 2[/I] that were useless to 4.0 fighters, just as there will be chunks of future books that are useless to 4.0 fighters. So, the new books DO provide options for the older classes, and even if your particular specific class isn't represented in a particular book, it's not like that's a new phenomenon, and it's not like there isn't 2 years worth of material for you to cull from that isn't this particular book. Blackguards will provide paladin options. Necromancers will provide wizard options. Hexblades will provide warlock options. Races will provide everyone new character options. Feats will provide everyone (and probably especially stealthy characters) options. I don't imagine future books will be much different in this respect. Even if they continue to go with essentials design principles in the future, that doesn't mean you can't take a particular power or feat, if you find that it works for you. [/QUOTE]

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