Multiclassing combos to try?

[The Ubbergeek]

Cleric/Wizard - because I'd like to see a scholar of the esoteric and mystic, and workable.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Oh, man. The Warlord/Warlock spelling similarity is officially starting to piss me off.

"I'm a WarWar."

"I'm a LordLock."

"Lock and Lord?"

"Just call me Warlo. The last two letters can be chosen pretty much at random"

Warlork?
Warlocd?

Either way, it would be cool to see a warlock commanding his "minions."

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Oh, man. The Warlord/Warlock spelling similarity is officially starting to piss me off.

I'd make a Warforged character with levels in Warlord and Warlock.

 

[Vael]

What'd also be a test of multiclassing is using two defender classes or two strikers, and seeing how they'd compare to a single-classed character. A figther/Paladin shouldn't be loads better or worse at defending than single-classed characters of the same level.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'd make a Warforged character with levels in Warlord and Warlock.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I think I have my first 4e character.

I hope I can find an illustration by WAR to base it on...

 

[NewfieDave]

My first 4e character will probably be a Warlord with Rogue Training.

 

[Voss]

What you'd wind up with, I think, is a level 30 Wizard with the feats (or maybe talents) Fighter Training, Rogue Training, Cleric Training, etc. etc. He would have access to a huge number of talents, but if he took talents from every class all of his talents would be very low-level. It would probably be not as good as a straight wizard, but only a little worse. Not bad for so much cross-classing. If, indeed, that is how it works.

Actually, I'm worried about a character who does this being better than anyone else, because he's accumulated such a large pile of per encounter abilities that he never, ever has to attack normally. If the paladin smites are anything to go by, and per encounters are variations on the theme of double damage with side bonuses (maybe some give triple damage but no bonuses, and others focus on bonuses- there is a lot of design space here), if you never have to make a basic attack, you're going to be way ahead of the power curve. Cherry picking can be very, very powerful. And it will get worse as more classes get released in the future, as you'll be better able to match the driving attributes. (For example, a paladin can pick up a pile of smites, sorcerer things, bard things warlord? things and cleric things, and largely focus on abilities that give attack bonuses primarily with CHA and WIS.

Hopefully there is a cap on that sort of thing, but the siloing comments worry me. Its hard to cap abilities when, like the cleric, abilities are separated- healing abilities don't affect your ability to use offensive abilities. If powers are in separate boxes, a limit on box x doesn't mean much.

As for folks talking about x levels of Class A, and y levels of Class B, you're making assumptions. We actually haven't seen *any* examples of that. The Wizard/Warlord (wiz-lord?) was mentioned as specifically *not* having any wizard levels, just a few wizard powers that he picked up. (presumably through the class training feat we have heard about.