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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badwe" data-source="post: 5329145" data-attributes="member: 61762">In terms of what these articles portend for quality and promptness of future dragon articles, they are great, and I like how they are presented immensely.  In terms of what's offered in them, I feel like they're a little off the mark.I can see the importance of supporting essentials builds, but the pyromancer is somewhat disappointing in that there's no way for someone, like the wizard in my group, to get to any of these interesting features because they're wholly uncompatible.  He would have to scrap his entire character and start over as a mage.  Mind you, it hasn't been all doom and gloom for him as he does fire/ice so the freezing burst will be a big boon when next they redo their powers, but a lot of these pyromancer features, in addition to being unattainable for a regular wizard, are unfortunate in that they step on the toes of the pyromancer article that came before (one that asked you to spend an entire feat to ignore only some fire resistance, for example).Also, not that this wizard is likely to take it, but is it possible for a non-mage wizard to take the paragon paths in essentials?as for the staff fighter set... it definitely has great flavor but i think the boat was missed here.  A lot of the flavor talks about poor or secret combatants learning to wield a staff which doesn't then make sense for a knight in full plate.  Same with the slayer, who favors offense.  For either of these characters an actual halberd would have made more sense thematically.</blockquote>

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