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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4730546" data-attributes="member: 82106">Sort of seems like if you go that way then you just did away with the 4 'V shaped' classes. That might have been the best design from the start, but in essence that is result, all classes become single stat secondary. It really is much of a minor detail as to which stat you use, except if it is a choice then the choice is clear, nobody would CHOOSE to be a Chaladin since WIS and CHA stack on WILL defense and STR is kind of that stat that anyone who ever swings a weapon at all pretty much has a use for. The situation may not be so clear cut with the warlock builds, but it does kind of wash out the flavor of the various pacts. Not a disaster of course.In the case of rogues and rangers I think you actually are loosing a good bit though, and some other problems arise. High damage ranged attack capability is a VERY powerful feature for a character to have. The Archer ranger and the Sniper rogue pay for that with a significant loss of melee combat capability. If you merge the two halves, then you obliterate that disadvantage. Nobody would ever play a STR ranger if they can use DEX universally in place of STR, and if a rogue can have all rogue powers and not have to worry about CHA, then you'll have rogues that are universally max pumped in STR/DEX every time and fight equally with all weapons as well.Granted there are secondary effects of various powers that your feat doesn't obliterate the distinctions for, but if a character can have really superior fighting skill, they'll pretty much always ignore that.The final weakness with that is that rogue and ranger are the MC choices par-excellence. Monkeying with the stat balance of how their powers work is likely to create a whole bunch of nasty combos. A proper feat prereq can deal with that on the MC into those classes side, but on the side of MC out of them, it could get ugly.</blockquote>

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