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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5634033" data-attributes="member: 22779">Just to add to Pemerton's point.&nbsp; My fighter has now had 4 combats.&nbsp; In those four combats, he used Come and Get It once, Sweeping Blow twice (both encounter powers) and, one use of a couple of dailies.&nbsp; He did not use one of his dailies before the final rest.In other words, every combat has been different and different powers have been used.In a system where, by even fairly low levels - say 8th or 9th - you have about a dozen different effects, more than half of which are encounter or at-will powers, the odds that you will actually see any sort of pattern emerge is pretty small.Never minding, of course, that by Paragon tier, you begin replacing encounter and daily powers with newer powers, so any pattern that was recognized before that would be broken simply by the fact that you don't actually use the same powers from 1st to 30th level.Isn't it funny though.&nbsp; 3e gets a free pass despite the fact that many combats will run very, very similarly - move and single attack, shift and full attack until the baddy falls down - a pattern that is easily recognizable to anyone who's played any amount of 3e.&nbsp; But 4e, despite having many, many more in combat options for every character, will have a noticeable pattern emerge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5634033, member: 22779"] Just to add to Pemerton's point. My fighter has now had 4 combats. In those four combats, he used Come and Get It once, Sweeping Blow twice (both encounter powers) and, one use of a couple of dailies. He did not use one of his dailies before the final rest. In other words, every combat has been different and different powers have been used. In a system where, by even fairly low levels - say 8th or 9th - you have about a dozen different effects, more than half of which are encounter or at-will powers, the odds that you will actually see any sort of pattern emerge is pretty small. Never minding, of course, that by Paragon tier, you begin replacing encounter and daily powers with newer powers, so any pattern that was recognized before that would be broken simply by the fact that you don't actually use the same powers from 1st to 30th level. Isn't it funny though. 3e gets a free pass despite the fact that many combats will run very, very similarly - move and single attack, shift and full attack until the baddy falls down - a pattern that is easily recognizable to anyone who's played any amount of 3e. But 4e, despite having many, many more in combat options for every character, will have a noticeable pattern emerge. [/QUOTE]

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