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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5003227" data-attributes="member: 82106">They'll have APs, multi-attack powers, minor action attacks, reaction powers, on-bloodied, etc. Bahamut may not drop quite the same damage as an optimized high Epic striker, but he'll drop plenty of damage. Encounters, especially high level ones, can't really be simply considered in terms of powers either. It would be pretty lame for DM to simply toss Bahamut into a room with 5 PCs and have them go at it. The real challenge will be the fact that you're facing a supremely powerful being that has had aeons of time to prepare for any attack, is super intelligent, and has almost limitless resources. Whatever that encounter is, the damage from the platinum dude's claws are going to be the least thing the PCs should be thinking about.But ultimately monsters exist to be defeated. If monsters did massive damage in every hit the game would simply be too swingy, which was always a problem with older editions of D&D where 1 or 2 die rolls going against someone was the end of the day for them.Think of 4e combat rounds as smaller increments of time than in older editions. The damage output isn't so much different as the level of granularity in which it is dished out is smaller. This gives players more decision points. Instead of just suddenly being dead, you're hurt and you get to try to do something about it.In any case I have NOT found monster damage output up through all of heroic and into paragon to be lacking. Characters regularly get hit hard and they can go down quite fast.</blockquote>

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