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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9294251" data-attributes="member: 72555">1. No enhancement bonus to hit.2. Light armor does not give enhancemnt bonus to AC.  Heavy keeps it.3. All armor gives an encounter power to gain +Enhancement against an attack that hit by less than that on AC and (Reflex) light (Fortitude) Heavy.4. Feat bonuses to hit limited to +1.5. No enhancement bonuses to NaDs from neck.  Instead, encounter power like the armor one (but NADs or saving throws).6. Gain +2 to all attrivutes at 11 and 21 instead of +1.7. Gain +1 to all attributes at 24 and 28 as well as +1 to two attributes (so +2/+2/+1/+1/+1/+1).8. No half level bonus.9. Bonused to a NAD from a feat capped at +2.10. Bonuses to AC from a feat capped at +1.Attributes now gain +10/+10/+4/+4/+4/+4.Expected scaling is now approx +6 to hit/ac/NADs over 29 levels, or about +1/5.We scale up damage a tad.  At-will powers upgrade at both 11 and 21 by 1 die (so T[W] often).  L11-19 encounter/daily powers get 2x damage dice, and L21-30 get x3 damage dice.A PC traditionally has approx (L+3)*5 HP, (5+kL) DPR, 3+L accuracy, 14+L AC.(k is between 0.5 and 4 depending on optimization.  Typical is 1.5 to 2.5 for strikers, 0.5 to 1.5 for non, but it varies).Accuracy becomes (4+L/5), AC 15+L/5, HP remains (L+3)*5.DPR moves less than you might think.  Assume a 12 round 3 encounter day.  A 3d12 paragon encounter power gains 5 DPR over the day.A 5d12 daily adds 3 DPR.Paragon gains 3 encounter powers and 3 dailied, so that is 2-3 DPR per level increase.In Epic, a 5d12 E power adds 16 DPR, and a 9d12 daily adds 10 DPR.  2 E and 2 D sum to about 5 DPR per level - a bit less due to losing a bigger Paragon power.Plus a bit for higher stats and stronger at-will, so call it 6.So DPR goes from (5+kL) to 5+kL+3(L over 10)+3(L over 20).We then feed this to a power volume equation.On mosnters we subtract their level from their Atk, AC and NADs. Next we add +3 for Paragon, +6 for Epic and +9 for Legendary tier monsters.Monsters are now flattened along side PCs.But we curved PC damage upward.  We can scale monster HP/damage upward in turn, and make monsters threatening again.Monster AC/ATK/NAD scales similar to PCs. Monster HP DPR used to scale with 6(3+L)(12+1.5L) roughly (MM3, assuming some encounter powers). The PCs are gaining a steeper damage curve in paragon and epic: the monster in turn are permitted a boost.The easiest solution is to repeat what PCs got.  Double damage dice of paragon foes, 3x epic, and 4x legendary (L31+). But this makes L11 more than a bit of a jump.At level 10 we expect 18 damage, plus 25% -50% on encounter powers, so about 20 most rounds.  Adding +4 instead of +1.25 per level means at 15 we should be at 40 instead 26.So: L11 to 15, add +3/6/9/12/15 damage per turn.L16-20 double damage dice.L21-30 3x damage dice (small DPR jump at 21, like 30%).L41+ 4x damage diceThat should return the fear of higher level foes to PCs.The game will get a bit rocket tag.  But that seems ok to me, as standard 4e is a bit too padded at paragon/epic.Move the +3 AC/ATK/DEF bonus to level 10, 25 and 35 instead of 11/21/31 so it doesn't align with the damage bump, spreading it out a bit.There, a flattened 4e.  PCs are even usable without their gear (but still really want it).The meta of powers shifts a tad.  Multi tap powers are boosted less by the dice multiplication, and big dice powers more.  But that is intended: in vanilla, big dice powers didn't scale enough, and tap scaled too well.</blockquote>

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