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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5412526" data-attributes="member: 78116">You cannot do this because PCs dropping a ton of action points and daily powers will instantly wreck those encounters by high paragon. By epic the effect is so disgusting they'll probably be able to use all their powers in both encounters (due to abilities to get them back) without any issue. The difference now is "attrition" is a genuine factor and you can pull back ELs. The only way you can make those encounters challenging is with ridiculous metagaming, heavily stacked encounters and driving the EL into the roof. Ultimately this isn't worth it compared with having 4-5 encounters and making those really count. With 1-2 you have two and only two outcomes: A complete TPK because you went overboard or the PCs walk over it without issue due to sheer resources they can throw at it without care. This is why that 4-5 encounter "day" is so important. Even epic PCs cannot consistently daily drop every encounter and get away with it: Eventually something will get them. It might be encounter 3, it could be encounter 4. But a "save all your dailies and drop them" will fail spectacularly and forces them to spread out resources.This is why epic tier fights are becoming a challenge again.</blockquote>