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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 4806005" data-attributes="member: 3146">My vote for best 5 character party: warlords. It's a high complexity party concept but as long as you're in melee you're likely to end up with everyone going twice in the key round--three times if action points are included (and those actions will be 2-3 times as effective as normal due to the stacking bonuses from warlord presence (action point and get 1/2 taclord's int to atk, +taclord and resc lord int +1/2 level to damage, heal 1/2 lvl + insp lord cha bonus, make a save with +cha, and, if you hit, get an extra basic attack--ouch!) with hefty bonuses from things like warlord's favor and adaptive stratagem or warlord's strike or war of attrition.The weakness of such a party would be ranged capability but selective multiclassing (taclord and resourceful warlord both have the potential to multiclass with wizard effectively and bravura and inspiring can multiclass with sorceror) can mitigate that--and in the end javalins don't completely suck.If you want a party that will probably not work: 5 shamans. Their powers are great but their defenses tend to be weak and none of their powers or abilities are suited for melee--nor are they particularly good at avoiding it. If they couldn't just use their spirit companions to wall off their enemies (a tactic which would probably not work reliably--even with five spirit companions), they would probably be in real trouble.5 rogues would probably work but would be prone to TPK. They would work well together to sneak around and avoid encounters but rogues tend to have lower healing surges than other characters and little self-healing and are thus vulnerable to a string of luck rolls. Also, they depend on positioning more heavily than other strikers and would probably face trouble if a string of unlucky rolls ruined their position.I also suspect that a 5 warlock party would be in trouble. Warlocks can cover a range of roles but they would run into issues with not being able to curse and collect pact boons.</blockquote>

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