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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6041649" data-attributes="member: 7006">If this packet really is as bad as some people claim... what do you think is the more likely reason?1)  Wizards of the Coast has lost their mojo and don't know what they're doing anymore.2)  Wizards of the Coast is tuning their dials by moving things from "really awesome" to "really sucks" (purposely hyperbolic on both ends on my part) so they can get a read from people of where they stand on the spectrum.Might it be possible that the same way WotC overtuned starting HP in the first packet and then dialed thing back in subsequent packets before dialing back up again in the latest packet (thereby finding the popular/useful middle ground)... they took the "fantastic" maneuvers and specialties from the previous packet and dial these back as well to find out just how far they can/can't / should/shouldn't take all these things?It's been said before and will be said again... if you don't realize that these packets are going to go back and forth between the greatest game on the face of the earth to the biggest pile of dung you've ever read (and every spot in between), then you are living in a fantasy world.  Because this is the only way they'll really know how good something is... by putting it on a scale between two points and asking us to comment on where things went right or wrong.</blockquote>