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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 4637890" data-attributes="member: 60886">I think the philosophy behind Intelligent Blademaster is just this:The swordmage is supposed to fill the "defender" role, but there is no (intended) swordmage build with Str as a primary stat.I think the reason you -don't- see an equivalent feat for Paladins is that a Str-based Paladin is meant to be a perfectly viable build (whether it's as good as a Cha-based Paladin is another debate).  Even for clerics and warlords, which aren't defenders anyway, there are still builds that have Str as the primary stat (warlords are supposed to -all- have Str primary).  So these other classes are intended to have perfectly viable builds with good BMAs.  The swordmage is special, though: Str is -never- primary for them but they're supposed to be defenders, and I think good BMAs (and OAs) are seen as an important piece of the defender role.Why they chose to do it with a feat rather than a class feature, I have no idea. They already sort of implemented it in quite a few swordmage powers anyway, so I'm not sure how good the feat really is.  But I can understand why there's no equivalent for Cha-based paladins or Wis-based clerics --- if you're one of those two classes and want good BMAs, there's already a Str-based build available for you.</blockquote>