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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4724497" data-attributes="member: 11821">So, the Bard's various &quot;marked by an ally of your choice&quot; powers create some new questions for Defenders.&nbsp; I've been looking through the various Defenders, and here's what I've come up with to answer the question, &quot;Which Defender powers and features work with Misdirected Mark?&quot;FIGHTER: The Fighter's Combat Challenge is pretty clear.&nbsp; It doesn't seem to matter how someone was marked - if an enemy marked by the fighter is adjacent to the fighter, the fighter can make their Immediate attacks for shifting or making attacks on others.SWORDMAGE: Swordmages are a little more limited.&nbsp; The Aegis wording refers to the ability's &quot;target.&quot;&nbsp; As such, as I read it, the Aegis can't be used against a target marked to the swordmage by Misdirected Mark.PALADIN: Much like the Swordmage, the Paladin's Divine Challenge refers to the &quot;target.&quot;WARDEN: Warden's Fury and Warden's Grasp, like the Fighter's abilities, only require that the target is &quot;marked by [them]&quot; without respect to how that target was marked.&nbsp; So it looks like a misdirected mark will work perfectly well for these features - which could be especially useful for Warden's Grasp.... and that's about what I got.So, by my reading, Bards synchronize better with Fighters and Wardens than they do with Swordmages or Paladins.Am I missing something?-O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 4724497, member: 11821"] So, the Bard's various "marked by an ally of your choice" powers create some new questions for Defenders. I've been looking through the various Defenders, and here's what I've come up with to answer the question, "Which Defender powers and features work with Misdirected Mark?" FIGHTER: The Fighter's Combat Challenge is pretty clear. It doesn't seem to matter how someone was marked - if an enemy marked by the fighter is adjacent to the fighter, the fighter can make their Immediate attacks for shifting or making attacks on others. SWORDMAGE: Swordmages are a little more limited. The Aegis wording refers to the ability's "target." As such, as I read it, the Aegis can't be used against a target marked to the swordmage by Misdirected Mark. PALADIN: Much like the Swordmage, the Paladin's Divine Challenge refers to the "target." WARDEN: Warden's Fury and Warden's Grasp, like the Fighter's abilities, only require that the target is "marked by [them]" without respect to [I]how[/I] that target was marked. So it looks like a misdirected mark will work perfectly well for these features - which could be especially useful for Warden's Grasp. ... and that's about what I got. So, by my reading, Bards synchronize better with Fighters and Wardens than they do with Swordmages or Paladins. Am I missing something? -O [/QUOTE]

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