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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5073667" data-attributes="member: 15470">Agreed - there are a number of cool powers in there, but putting them all together like that you've created an unstoppable killing machine from first level.For specific critique:Armor Proficiency: the "base" Strikers only give Hide. You've given not just Chain but Scale, for a +4 AC at first level, which is a huge increase.Weapon Proficiency: Every other class has to spend a feat to learn one superior weapon; you're giving your class access to all superior weapons for free. Not even the fighter gets "Superior Melee" as a class proficiency.Hit Points: You've given him Defender hit points, not Striker hit points.Trained Soul: neat idea; I'd keep this - but you need to think how it works with a Human, who already has the "pick any attribute and +2 it"Vigilance: +2 power bonus to AC, all the time, would be very overpowered to begin with .. and you're stacking it with the +4 from armor proficiency, resulting in a better AC than a Paladin in plate mail ..Vigilance: lessened Combat Advantage - with the current monster AC, an enemy's only hope of taking you down is to do it with CA .. so as a designer nerfing that really makes the character much stronger than a single +1 seems to indicate. I'd force some form of parrying item (shield, light blade offhand) as a pre-req for getting this bonus, if you decide to keep it.Combat Prowess: so, the reason the cumulative-bonus-on-miss weapon works is that, as soon as you hit, the bonus goes away. With this, a lucky couple rolls, and you can reach the point where the only way to miss is to roll a natural 1. The +2 bonus with a two-handed weapon is especiallly egregious due to the extra damage the weapon deals on a hit.Executor: sounds nice in flavor, but it interplays with Combat Prowess way too well, ensuring that as a battle wears on your character has massive to-hit bonuses against all enemies.Mercenary Weapon Talent: Other classes spend a feat to get this with basic attacks. This class gets it, for free, with any attack? So, I can make Charisma my key stat for both combat and social scenarios, for example, or Con my key stat for both combat and hit points .. there's a reason different attributes have different roles, and this really violates that precept.Dextrous Blades Mercenary: The superstar of two-handed fighting, the Ranger, gets this as an Encounter power .. you give it to your class, and it doesn't even require taking an At-Will..... When you combine all of those factors, you haven't created a versatile class, you've created  - a better two-weapon fighter than the ranger - a better archer than the ranger - a better tank than the fighter - a better tank than the paladin - a better two-handed-slayer than the barbarianSo when Droogie says "its the most overpowered thing I've ever seen", that's no exaggeration: you've basically created a class where the question isn't "why would I want to play this?", its "why would anybody choose any other melee class?"If you want to build a well-balanced "versatile" class, it needs to fit somewhere in power between the striker and the defender .. it should be something which doesn't tank as well as a fighter, doesn't strike as well as a striker .. but can do both with some success. You might balance it around the leader classes, actually, for damage, bonuses, armor, etc; the challenge would be figuring out the appropriate power-level replacement for the leader-class healing-surge powers.On a flavor side:I envision a Mercenary as being fairly Streetwise, not so much Acrobatic.</blockquote>

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