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Night at the Roxbury: Tricks for Multiple Defender Parties (by GelationousOctahedron)
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<blockquote data-quote="LightWarden" data-source="post: 6744678" data-attributes="member: 6803540"><p><strong>Miscellaneous Commentary P3</strong></p><p></p><p>[sblock]</p><p><strong>Originally posted by mellored:</strong></p><p></p><p>Unconscious Assault: It's an ardent power, but it's also a free attack for ally defender.</p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by GelatinousOctahedron:</strong></p><p></p><p>I updated post 4 to include that and some similar information.</p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by mellored:</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Blah... so you did.</p><p></p><p>Missed that.</p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by GelatinousOctahedron:</strong></p><p></p><p>I did it in reponse to your post! It wasn't like that this morning.</p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by mellored:</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://community.wizards.com/sites/all/modules/custom/forest_site/smileys/wizards/what.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Guess that's why i missed it.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://community.wizards.com/sites/all/modules/custom/forest_site/smileys/wizards/thumbs%20up.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by EnglishLanguage:</strong></p><p></p><p>Had my first game with 2 defenders. DM was so mad.</p><p></p><p>I was a Harrier Battlemind with Conductive Defense, Lodestone Lure, and Lightning Rush. Another member was an Assault Swordmage. The boss didn't stand a chance.</p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by Be3Al2:</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think that a 2 E-defender team would get around the part that only one mark works. If you have an enemy in the aura of two defenders the enemy will get to chose one of the defenders to attack, else it will take punishment from at least one of them. Not sure how stacking works (the attack penalty does not stack I know) but if you have a knight and a cavalier together the monster might take punishment from both of them if it goes for the wizard.</p><p></p><p>So for a 2-defender team I think that a combination of E-defenders will work very well. </p><p></p><p><strong>Originally posted by thespaceinvader:</strong></p><p></p><p>They explicitly don't work together at all. The aura specifies this, just like it specifies that it doesn't work on marked enemies..</p><p></p><p>E: also, it seems to me that you've really missed a trick with the Brawler. One of the best ways of forcing punishment, particularly on ranged punishers, would seem to be pinning the enemy down inescapably in the wrong place... The Brawler can effectively control positioning without ever marking.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LightWarden, post: 6744678, member: 6803540"] [B]Miscellaneous Commentary P3[/B] [sblock] [B]Originally posted by mellored:[/B] Unconscious Assault: It's an ardent power, but it's also a free attack for ally defender. [B]Originally posted by GelatinousOctahedron:[/B] I updated post 4 to include that and some similar information. [B]Originally posted by mellored:[/B] Blah... so you did. Missed that. [B]Originally posted by GelatinousOctahedron:[/B] I did it in reponse to your post! It wasn't like that this morning. [B]Originally posted by mellored:[/B] [IMG]http://community.wizards.com/sites/all/modules/custom/forest_site/smileys/wizards/what.gif[/IMG] Guess that's why i missed it. [IMG]http://community.wizards.com/sites/all/modules/custom/forest_site/smileys/wizards/thumbs%20up.gif[/IMG] [B]Originally posted by EnglishLanguage:[/B] Had my first game with 2 defenders. DM was so mad. I was a Harrier Battlemind with Conductive Defense, Lodestone Lure, and Lightning Rush. Another member was an Assault Swordmage. The boss didn't stand a chance. [B]Originally posted by Be3Al2:[/B] I think that a 2 E-defender team would get around the part that only one mark works. If you have an enemy in the aura of two defenders the enemy will get to chose one of the defenders to attack, else it will take punishment from at least one of them. Not sure how stacking works (the attack penalty does not stack I know) but if you have a knight and a cavalier together the monster might take punishment from both of them if it goes for the wizard. So for a 2-defender team I think that a combination of E-defenders will work very well. [B]Originally posted by thespaceinvader:[/B] They explicitly don't work together at all. The aura specifies this, just like it specifies that it doesn't work on marked enemies.. E: also, it seems to me that you've really missed a trick with the Brawler. One of the best ways of forcing punishment, particularly on ranged punishers, would seem to be pinning the enemy down inescapably in the wrong place... The Brawler can effectively control positioning without ever marking.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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