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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Proctor" data-source="post: 4568058" data-attributes="member: 78547">This is a Daily power though.  If it were an Encounter, I could see what you mean, but then it would be too powerful.  As a Daily though, you can only use it very rarely, and on one enemy.  So no, I don't think it was created as some way of "simplifying things without errata".If you're a player or a DM in a group with a Fighter that has trouble with marking, then you should remind him.  It was a bit confusing for me at first too, but a few times our DM would just give a nudge by saying "Do you want to mark the target?" or something to that effect.  Once I got into the habit of marking on a hit or miss then it becomes second nature and you can start to think more about tactical marking and locking down specific targets and such.Yeah, but our party has two.  We have a Fighter (me) and a Paladin.  Sometimes we have to really work out our marking scheme, since he has a tendency to DC my targets when he shouldn't.  For example, when we were trying to prevent someone from getting away.  My mark allows me to attack when they shift, and it does a lot more damage than his Divine Challenge, so it made more sense for my mark to be on the target at that point.  So he just had to forgo using DC while we were chasing him down.On the other hand, sometimes we use our marks to manipulate the enemy.  If the Paladin is taking a lot of heat, I'll come in and mark the target so that he has to either attack me or take a CCII if he wants to keep going after the Paladin, and vice versa.  The perma-marks eliminate the ability for our Paladin to take the heat off me if whoever I perma-marked is really pounding on me.</blockquote>

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