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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Burrito Al Pastor" data-source="post: 4681094" data-attributes="member: 27303">This is an important issue. Strength-based basic attacks becoming a de facto combat standard results in dramatic relative power of characters using strength-based powers. The starlock's dilemma of being good with half your attacks or mediocre with all of them would be applied to everybody with powers not based on strength.This can be circumvented to a degree with feats like Intelligent Swordmage, but only to a degree - and generally speaking, the classes that have int-based powers and would benefit from Intelligent Swordmage are the classes that are the least capable of going toe to toe with anybody in melee. Heck, many 4e wizards don't even carry a melee weapon.</blockquote>