Resourceful Presence

[FireLance]

However Eladrin Tactical warlords with MC fighter for Rain of Blows & take the Spiral Tactician Path to give a full INT bonus to Attacks is pretty much broken. Though a sprinkling of Resourceful ones would be more broken at that level (16).

IMO, if you're an eladrin tactical warlord with the Spiral Tactician paragon path, you should multiclass into swordmage and take the Eladrin Swordmage Advance feat which allows you to make a melee basic attack as a free action when you fey step adjacent to an enemy. That's one free basic attack per encounter, or two if you spend an action point because your Second Step path feature allows you to regain fey step when you do so. That gives you pretty much the entire benefit of rain of blows without needing to hit, and you can pick another encounter power instead.

 

[chitzk0i]

Except you can only use one at a time.

Ah, but you aren't using two. Read the Tactical Assault feat.

 

[Pickles JG]

It's not broken... it's anti-grind.
-blarg

Agreed in the case of the odd warlord here & there, not so much in the case of 5 of them, though I expect it's so boring to play it would not really be all that broken.

IMO, if you're an eladrin tactical warlord with the Spiral Tactician paragon path, you should multiclass into swordmage and take the Eladrin Swordmage Advance feat which allows you to make a melee basic attack as a free action when you fey step adjacent to an enemy. That's one free basic attack per encounter, or two if you spend an action point because your Second Step path feature allows you to regain fey step when you do so. That gives you pretty much the entire benefit of rain of blows without needing to hit, and you can pick another encounter power instead.

Thanks for the pointer - my newly level 6 warlord just took Blade Initiate instead of Arcane Initiate .

However the point of Rain of Blows in this scenario is to get 4 attacks all buffed by the expenditure of 1 action point x 4 other warlords. With 3 Tacs/Spiral & 2 Resourceful/Infernal Strategist you can easily get + 14 to hit & +80 damage at level 16 on top of your basic numbers. This should kill an equal level elite or a couple of normal guys (you can split the attacks & have reach with your Greatspear). Two of them can take out a solo.

If 40% of your party can splatter most of any encounter in a round I think it qualifies as broken subject to the boredom caveat above (I expect this applies to most OTT combos in practice).

Ah, but you aren't using two. Read the Tactical Assault feat.

Eep missed that but incorporated it above