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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mesh Hong" data-source="post: 4924435" data-attributes="member: 73463">I like these. I will echo Saagael's comments about Stiff body, do the creatures have resist 10 against all attacks and -2 defence against opportunity attacks or do both the resistance and the lower defences just count towards opportunity attacks? -Reading it a couple of times it looks liek it just gets the resist for opportunity attacks, which fits with the description of the creature. Jiang Shi10 radiant vulnerability is pretty significant for a standard creature, admittedly it has a chance of healing but I would still expect a vulnerability of 5. Otherwise I do not think this creature is dealing enough damage. The damage expression range for a level 9 skirmisher is:-low: 1d8+5standard: 2d6+5high: 2d8+5Your creature is doing 1d6+5 with is basic attack and 1d8+5 and 2d6 with its other attacks. Only one of these is equal to the low damage expression (which are generally used for soldiers or non type attacks, i.e. melee from an artillery) Also a skirmisher usually has an ability that grants it bonus damage or an added effect when it has combat advantage, yours does not has this. I would suggest that its basic attack, Razor Claw should be doing 2d6+6 damage. Its Hopping Claw should stay as is, and its Qi Drain should be doing 2d8+4 necrotic damage. I would also add a power that allowed it to deal an additional 1d6 damage with Razor Claw and Hopping Claw when it had combat advantage. Stiff CorpseDraining Claw I would change to a standard 8 damage instead of 1d6+5 as it is a minion. The added resistance stripping is nasrty on paper but probably wouldn't be a factor in game play, unless you really built an encounter around it. Anyway, I like the flavour of these guys. Anyone facing them would certainly remember them which is always the sign of an interesting creature.</blockquote>

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