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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5552540" data-attributes="member: 59248">I like the idea of an Abjurer defender wizard; nicely done.But I don't see any reason the ward needs to be attackable--at all.  If it is, the system for making it attackable is far too complicated.But really, for a wizard defender, his weakness is really simple: it's the wizard.  All the foe needs to do to mess with the wizard's defensive ability is walk over to the wizard and proceed to kicking the crap out of him or her.  Since the wizard still has wizard defenses, he -needs- the extra defense of "I'm too far away for you to conveniently hit me" in order to do his job. That said, I'd probably want to also include a class feature that improves the wizard's defenses against ranged attackers--and drop the wizard's controller powers down a bit (Abjurer's Shell: Your spells inflict half damage.  While you are conscious, you take half damage from ranged and area attacks).  Because while distance is a useful defense against melee enemies, it's -not- a useful defense against ranged enemies; an abjurer who attracts their attentions and doesn't have any defenses against them will find himself a non-defender in -very- short order.</blockquote>