L4W Discussion Thread IV

[TwoHeadsBarking]

Wow, no more leather armor for Avengers. Ooh, and resolution on Storm Pillar (damage is only taken for movement during the enemy's turn).

Edit: And the Archlich is no longer a tremendous liability.

Edit, part 2: And Hero of the Faith is sort of weak. The oath now lasts until either the creature dies or until you hit it, whichever comes first.

 

[CaBaNa]

and you can't take free actions when surprised!

and if your roll a 20 or higher while dying without healing surges, your SOL...


On Storm Pillar, they apparently forgot about readied actions. Or opportunity actions, that would move the enemy into the pillar "on it's turn."

But the intent is clear now at least...

Illusory Wall is an encounter power again!

 

[renau1g]

Wow, no more leather armor for Avengers.

Well that sucks... Not sure how this affects my RPGA PC as he's burned 2 feats to get Hide and now is f'd over as I can only re-train 1 feat/lvl. It was nice having 18 AC at level 1.

 

[TwoHeadsBarking]

So, Eldritch Strike is now an alternative for Eldritch Blast. I wanted to bring this to everyone's attention because of the wording WotC used when justifying this:

"The change is necessary because there is currently no easy way to easily acquire this power as a warlock."

So, does this mean that there was a hard way to easily acquire the power? Or maybe there was an easy way to get it that involved much difficulty. I guess it depended on how much you didn't want to be a human.

 

[covaithe]

Bloodclaw weapon's power is encounter instead of at will, interesting. Also, Hero of the Faith got the official nerf, though not exactly the one that I expected.

 

[Velmont]

Nice, swordmage keep there Swordmage ward if they fall unconscious now. Nice to know.

 

[renau1g]

So, Eldritch Strike is now an alternative for Eldritch Blast. I wanted to bring this to everyone's attention because of the wording WotC used when justifying this:

"The change is necessary because there is currently no easy way to easily acquire this power as a warlock."

So, does this mean that there was a hard way to easily acquire the power? Or maybe there was an easy way to get it that involved much difficulty. I guess it depended on how much you didn't want to be a human.

Awesome! I laughed quite hard at this THB.

 

[Dunamin]

Quite a few updates to magic items, I see.

Cloaks of Distortion are not over-the-top anymore and have been officially kicked from both Woe's and Rhole's wish list.

 

[JoeNotCharles]

Couple of things I noticed:

Yes, double weapons are much saner now, although the quarterstaff and spiked chain should probably be updated to the new format.

A lot of the stuff we've been arguing about in Arcane Power has been fixed. Not Grease though, AFAICT.

Murphy/Siblyx's Rod of Reaving's been nerfed. Sorry. Good thing you already killed all those minions!

 

[CaBaNa]

HotF has an awesome nerf.