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<blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 5941106" data-attributes="member: 78357">That's really........well, dumb, unless the DM designs&nbsp; very poor encounters in the most generic way possible. LFR with 2-3 combat encounters for public play are good at making trying to hold on to all your Dailies a really bad idea. &nbsp;1. At Level 5, everyone has two Daily &quot;attack&quot; powers. In a party of five that's 10 at their disposal. With just decent encounter design (and play) even in a generic way&nbsp; you're going to burn through surges/healing faster than you should and be in a world of hurt late in the &quot;day&quot;. &nbsp;2. Any DM worth a bucket of spit isn't going to just run mook fight, skill challnge, mook fight, skill challenge, boss fight every &quot;day&quot;. A DM with even an ounce of intellect will set up the first (or second, or whichever) fight to be the tough one or tease there's a boss coming while whitling the party down and letting them find out they're beat to tar and sitting on their Dailies still when the day is done. It's very trivial to make sitting on your Dailies a very bad idea. &nbsp;3. It's really impractical for many classes/characters to hoard their dailies. Most of the good controller powers require&nbsp; sustaining actions. Rages and stances don't stack, etc.&nbsp; Save them and use only one or two of them? That's really bad resource management.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herschel, post: 5941106, member: 78357"] That's really........well, dumb, unless the DM designs very poor encounters in the most generic way possible. LFR with 2-3 combat encounters for public play are good at making trying to hold on to all your Dailies a really bad idea. 1. At Level 5, everyone has two Daily "attack" powers. In a party of five that's 10 at their disposal. With just decent encounter design (and play) even in a generic way you're going to burn through surges/healing faster than you should and be in a world of hurt late in the "day". 2. Any DM worth a bucket of spit isn't going to just run mook fight, skill challnge, mook fight, skill challenge, boss fight every "day". A DM with even an ounce of intellect will set up the first (or second, or whichever) fight to be the tough one or tease there's a boss coming while whitling the party down and letting them find out they're beat to tar and sitting on their Dailies still when the day is done. It's very trivial to make sitting on your Dailies a very bad idea. 3. It's really impractical for many classes/characters to hoard their dailies. Most of the good controller powers require sustaining actions. Rages and stances don't stack, etc. Save them and use only one or two of them? That's really bad resource management. [/QUOTE]

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