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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7818638" data-attributes="member: 82106">I just thought all the bookkeeping was foo. I'd have been more happy if it had just been "spend a surge, use an item daily" but really the BIG problem was that if there's a cost which is gated on a limited resource of any sort then all item daily powers are being thrown into a small pool and players only ever use the very most powerful ones. Thus most daily power items became unusable trash, even though a lot of them were quite interesting and flavorful. Then everyone complained that 4e items were boring! So then we did away with the rule that forced you to only use a few boring optimal item powers, and everyone was peeved about it! LOL! This was THE one thing that Mearls did to improve 4e that was actually good and showed a real deep understanding of the issue at hand. The classification of items into rarities was then basically hamfisted, like they just couldn't be bothered to do it well, but that's another story (and one you could fix yourself if you were so inclined).</blockquote>