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Message: <blockquote data-quote="karlindel" data-source="post: 5101469" data-attributes="member: 27103">This is a difficult question to answer, because it can depend significantly on your party makeup, how well their classes and power choices synergize, and how well the characters coordinate.  It is also strongly influenced by the level of the encounters and the mix of skill encounters.If the party has a cowardly ranged character who stays far from the fights and never gets hit, then the party will be able to go through fewer encounters than if the ranged character comes up to the front lines and takes a hit now and then.  If the party has a cleric focussed on healing to maximize the healing power of surges, the party will be able to get through more fights than if the party has a less healing focussed leader, and far more than if there is no leader at all.In addition, skill challenges can extend the party's staying power, because they result in more daily item powers and action points relative to the number of combat encounters.In my experience, a well built party that plays well together can usually take 4-6 combat encounters of their level before an extended rest, and I have seen as many as 8 with good luck.  Replacing a few of those with level-1 and level +1 will probably not affect that very much.  Level +2 or higher encounters will start to drop that number unless offset by some much easier encounters.</blockquote>