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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 4090809" data-attributes="member: 14848"><p>The reference to limited number of abilities.  WotC has pretty much said once you reach a certain point the gaining of abilities stops and you only replace or swap out abilities.  The lack of diversity is characters such as wizard won't have as many spells to call upon through the course of the game thereby restricting the way they are played.  People like diversity, but if you are restricting what everyone can do so they all do the same number of actions then there really isn't any diversity.  You get game balance this way, but lose the diversity in the return.  Both characters able to only do x number of actions means the only difference is in how you do it, with the odds of being similar now more profound.  A good example of this was the comparison someone did in another post concerning the ranger and warlock, both strikers, who have an attack doing a d10 + modifier.  Once all the dailies and encounter powers have been used, they will both fall back to doing their d10 attack action, thus the only difference between them is how they are supposedly doing their damage as the action is technically the same thing, leaving not much diversity between them.</p></blockquote><p></p>