Player's Handbook 2: I haz it

[Majoru Oakheart]

The preview of the bard listed him with an assortment of melee weapons (including the long sword) as well as the ability to use military ranged weapons. Did he recieve any powers that use melee and ranged weapons? A better question would be are there enough Weapon attacks to do a bard that is not forced to hang back as a caster, two at-wills, one encounter, and daily per level. Also what sort of benefit does the multi-class bard gain? I would assuming it is a healing ability like all of the leaders and a skill training. Thanks in advance.

Yes, the other 2 at will powers are both melee weapon powers and half of their abilities total are melee attacks. The multiclass feat gives you their heal once a day and one skill from their list.

 

[Dice4Hire]

What kinds of cool stuff can the shaman do with her spirit at high level?

The coolest thing that they can do from level 1 is attack range. The range on summoning a spirit is 20, so with a minor action you can place it anywhere within 20 squares, and then a lot of powers target anything adjacent to your spirit, effectively giving them a range of 20.


The really rude thing with spirits is

Summon with minor action
Use standard attack
Unsummon as a minor action

This works well when you plant your spirit in the middle of a group of enemies.


Other times you will want to leave it in play (and risk it being destroyed) for the benefits t grants adacent allies.

This will be a very tactical power.

BTW, one sweet poet they get at level 22 is being able to bring back multiple dead allies in a burst. I have not seen anything like that before. And all it costs is a healing surge and says nothing about time dead. The flavor text implies they just died, but the actual power says nothing of the like.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I don't think Half-Elves can take racial paragon paths at all, and are limited to the Versatile Master feat. Which is awesome by the way.

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The book specifically says half-elves must do the VM.

And yes, it is awesome, if you have 5 feats available to spend. I love multi-classing, but it is hard to fit 5 in there, what with Implement/weapon expertise, armor proficiencies and other must-take feats.

 

[WalterKovacs]

The book specifically says half-elves must do the VM.

And yes, it is awesome, if you have 5 feats available to spend. I love multi-classing, but it is hard to fit 5 in there, what with Implement/weapon expertise, armor proficiencies and other must-take feats.

Even without going full on paragon multiclass, you still get the ability to turn your dilletante power into an at-will.

 

[chando]

Even without going full on paragon multiclass, you still get the ability to turn your dilettante power into an at-will.

Witch is the more awesome part of feat. The PMC stuff is nice if you are PMC, but since you normally PMC for the the at-will and you are already gaining one non-class at-will.

I guess you could have an at-will from your class, one from another class from the half-elf, and another from PMC, but I don't see much of the point.

Edit: Anyone could give an overview of the Warden powers pas lvl3? Are all dailies polymorph with nice effects and a nice but not so strong attack added to be done latter?(hope yes, or at least the majority) Any polymorph feats that indentified as crazygood? How about the specif encounter powers of the two builds? could we get something on then?

thanks in advance

 

[Dice4Hire]

Even without going full on paragon multiclass, you still get the ability to turn your dilletante power into an at-will.

That seems like ti would work.

 

[ppaladin123]

Could you post a bit about bard utility powers we haven't seen (or direct me to the page in the post where you already did so)?

 

[thecasualoblivion]

Even without going full on paragon multiclass, you still get the ability to turn your dilletante power into an at-will.

Which makes this feat teh sex for all paragon level Half-Elves, multiclassed or no.

Paladins and Warlords with that Sorcerer blast 3 at-will here we come.

 

[ppaladin123]

Which makes this feat teh sex for all paragon level Half-Elves, multiclassed or no.

Paladins and Warlords with that Sorcerer blast 3 at-will here we come.

Oh yeah...my half-elf paladin is going to pick up melee training, that sorcerer power you mention (burning spray), versatile mastery and multi-class into bard (primarily for the war chanter paragon path, which seems awesome). And, the Star of Correllon can be used as both a divine and an arcane implement.

My warlord though...righteous brand...seriously. Inspiring warlords finally get some "to hit" love.

 

[Superboy]

Does the Improved Armor of Faith heroic feat just give a static bonus of +2 or does it scale by tier (+1 heroic, +2 paragon, +3 epic)?