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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Proctor" data-source="post: 4716606" data-attributes="member: 78547">One of the things that seems to be getting missed here is that those dailies were fired off in the FIRST TWO ROUNDS.  This, I would say, was the major problem with why that wasn't the best tactic.  Except for a few powers, it's usually not a great idea to have a Daily be your first action in a fight.Generally, I like to open up with At-Wills for the first round or two to get a feel for the enemies.  Then I try to find a good target for my Encounter power, and if all else fails I'll use the Daily.  I play a Fighter BTW.While yes, you can fire off your dailies and still be able to go on, that doesn't mean it's smart.  What's better?  A Wizard dropping flaming sphere into a bunch of minions to kill them, or a Wizard dropping a Scorching Burst into a bunch of minions to kill them?  (With the larger are of Scorching Burst compared to Flaming Sphere needing to be adjacent, let's assume the same number of kills result).  Almost universally it will be better to use the Scorching Burst At-Will to take care of those minions because it doesn't cost you an expendable resources.  You can still Scorching Burst the next round and every round after that with no problem, but you can't get Flaming Sphere back (You can sustain it and do other things with it, but you can't recast it).  This is why "going nova" isn't usually the best play style unless you know what you're doing.  Obviously if you walk into a room and there's an Ancient Red Dragon you know that it's going to be a tough fight and you might want to fire off some of your Dailies in the first round to start landing some nasty effects...but you'll also be high level at that point and have 4 Daily powers to use and how many Magic Item powers you possess, so it's not consuming the same amount of resources to use a Daily stun power on him.In the lower levels you should usually stick to At-Will and Encounter powers, and only use a Daily to get you out of a jam.  That can mean using it on a Solo in a big fight, saving a PC from dying or turning around a relatively normal combat that's just going terribly wrong.  But you should be using them for a reason, not just as a knee-jerk reaction to seeing an enemy.</blockquote>

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