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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4202402" data-attributes="member: 1054">And this differs from orcs with a palette swap how, exactly?It's got reach and does extra damage when bloodied. Change some fluff and...Orc Grandmaster Pikeman (25th level soldier)Ripping Slash Of The Grandmaster (standard; at-will; weapon)Reach 2; +30 vs. AC (+32 against a bloodied target); 2d6 + 9 damage (crit 2d6 + 21), and the target is marked until the end of the pikeman’s next turn; see also vicious opportunist.The thing is, within the 4e paradigm, this is a perfectly sane power. There's nothing magical about it; it works fine as written and requires no SOD (once you accept 4e in general). Rescale the numbers and he is a paragon-level Orc Master Pikeman; lower them more and he is a Heroic tier Orc Elite Pikeman. The only difference is the Weapon tag, and while that might make him a tiny bit vulnerable to disarms, I will doubt that, for epic-on-epic combat, disarming a foe will be no easier than it is at lower levels.How to make it epic? Give it something which can't/shouldn't exist at lower tiers. It ignores all armor bonus from non-magical armor. It impales you on its sword arm and a million tiny leech mouths open up and it sucks your blood (followup attack against Fortitude, and you are weakened. Save ends.). It can make a broad sweep with its arm and decapitate all non-epic tier creatures within its reach (encounter power, that). Something, anything which says, "There is no way a jumped up orc with a fancy polearm could do this, no way, no how."You may not need a 3x style laundry list of spells and custom powers which never come into play, but you do need (IMO) something which says "This is a different kind of beastie than we've fought before."</blockquote>

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