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<blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 4284312" data-attributes="member: 6562">Wrong. It's easy to justify numerically.Humans, for example, have access to Action Surge, which is +3 to all attacks made with one standard action every other encounter. This is very flexible -- for a multi-target Daily, it's brilliant.The difference between a dump stat and a primary stat is +3 to +4 at first level, and that gap increases over the course of your career.This feat allows a Half-Elf to use his extra Encounter power (1/encounter, not 1/2 encounters) with a +3 or +4 bonus to the attack roll, but the Encounter power he gets to use it on is inferior to other Encounter powers (since it's actually an At-Will).So we have +3 to a scaling power (Humans) 1/2 encounters, or a scaling bonus to a fixed power (Half-Elves) 1/encounter.- - -Now look at Elven Precision: +2 to your Encounter re-roll. This is one of the best abilities in the game, because you can use it after you discover your Daily was going to miss. However, let's pretend we're using it naively (re-roll the first 10 or lower we get on an Encounter or Daily power). The expected bonus of Elven Accuracy alone is +2 (if used naively). Together with Elven Precision, that bonus becomes +4 -- exactly the optimal expected bonus of Power Adapter. However, you're applying that bonus after you know you're going to need it, and you're applying it to a scaling power (though only to a single target).- - -Half-Elves do need a boost, but giving them a free benefit of this scale isn't &quot;minor&quot;. Allowing one of their bonuses to &quot;float&quot; isn't minor either.If you have more questions, ask in a different thread please.Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nifft, post: 4284312, member: 6562"] Wrong. It's easy to justify numerically. Humans, for example, have access to Action Surge, which is +3 to all attacks made with one standard action every other encounter. This is very flexible -- for a multi-target Daily, it's brilliant. The difference between a dump stat and a primary stat is +3 to +4 at first level, and that gap increases over the course of your career. This feat allows a Half-Elf to use his extra Encounter power (1/encounter, not 1/2 encounters) with a +3 or +4 bonus to the attack roll, but the Encounter power he gets to use it on is inferior to other Encounter powers (since it's actually an At-Will). So we have +3 to a scaling power (Humans) 1/2 encounters, or a scaling bonus to a fixed power (Half-Elves) 1/encounter. - - - Now look at Elven Precision: +2 to your Encounter re-roll. This is one of the best abilities in the game, because you can use it after you discover your Daily was going to miss. However, let's pretend we're using it naively (re-roll the first 10 or lower we get on an Encounter or Daily power). The expected bonus of Elven Accuracy alone is +2 (if used naively). Together with Elven Precision, that bonus becomes +4 -- exactly the optimal expected bonus of Power Adapter. However, you're applying that bonus [u]after[/u] you know you're going to need it, and you're applying it to a scaling power (though only to a single target). - - - Half-Elves do need a boost, but giving them a free benefit of this scale isn't "minor". Allowing one of their bonuses to "float" isn't minor either. If you have more questions, ask in a different thread please. Cheers, -- N [/QUOTE]

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