Rogue at will powers ?

[Istar]

No.

Step #1) Attack with Riposte Strike. Do whatever you'd like with your remaining actions. Your turn ends.

Step #2) The monster you hit might attack you. If he does, you immediately get to attack him. You attack occurs before the monster's attack. After you've resolved your immediate interrupt, the initiative order resumes as normal.

Step #3) Eventually, your turn comes up again in initiative, and you can do whatever you want.


EDIT: Put another way, it doesn't matter if your target attacks you before others attack you. That's irrelevant. "Winning Initiative" isn't relevant either.

In my turn to attack.And I attack someone who has already had his attack.As he had a better initiative roll.Using Riposte Strike does nothing ?

 

[nittanytbone]

In my turn to attack.And I attack someone who has already had his attack.As he had a better initiative roll.Using Riposte Strike does nothing ?

No.

ROUND 1: Monster attacks.
ROUND 2: You attack the monster with Riposte Strike.
ROUND 2: Monster attacks you. You may use your immediate interrupt to attack the monster.
ROUND 2: You use Riposte Strike again.

And so it goes...

Also, remember that you can retrain your at-will powers. If you level up and find that you aren't getting good use out of at-will, just swap it out for another.

 

[Gruns]

Not quite...

In my turn to attack.And I attack someone who has already had his attack.As he had a better initiative roll.Using Riposte Strike does nothing ?

Not quite... Riposte Strike doesn't care about whether or not the creature already attacked you or not. It only cares about whether or not the creature attacks you on the turn after being hit by Riposte Strike...

Later!
Gruns

 

[nittanytbone]

Am I close considering I know nothing about enemy defence's in 4e

http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/229092-lots-statistics-monster-manual.html
Now you do.

Attacking REF is worth about +3 to hit as compared to hitting AC.

 

[Nail]

In my turn to attack.And I attack someone who has already had his attack.As he had a better initiative roll.Using Riposte Strike does nothing ?

Wow.


Uhm....

Huh?



His initiative roll isn't important. At all. So forget that.

If you attack someone with Riposte Strike, and that same someone attacks you before your turn comes up again, you get to attack him (with Str instead of Dex) before his attack resolves. Period.

 

[Istar]

Wow.


Uhm....

Huh?



His initiative roll isn't important. At all. So forget that.

If you attack someone with Riposte Strike, and that same someone attacks you before your turn comes up again, you get to attack him (with Str instead of Dex) before his attack resolves. Period.

Okay so it might be the next turn that I get to do the Riposte Strike.

Gotcha.

Cheers

 

[Nail]

Okay so it might be the next turn that I get to do the Riposte Strike.

It will be after your turn that you get the second attack from Riposte Strike....but before your next turn. If your next turn comes up and the target hasn't attacked you, you don't get that second attack.

 

[Istar]

It will be after your turn that you get the second attack from Riposte Strike....but before your next turn. If your next turn comes up and the target hasn't attacked you, you don't get that second attack.

Okay, after my turn or action.

But it could be this round or turn of events, or the next one, that the target may decide to attack me.

 

[Nail]

Okay, after my turn or action.

But it could be this round or turn of events, or the next one, that the target may decide to attack me.

Ah.

I think I see the problem.

The word "TURN" (in 4e) means "when your PC acts". It does not mean "after everyone has gone this round". So saying "turn of events" has no meaning in 4e.

If your rogue uses Riposte Strike and hits his target, and the target doesn't attack you before your turn comes up again, your second attack from Riposte Strike is lost.

 

[Pickles JG]

Not having played 4e (in fact 20 years of 2nd Edition) I am trying to find out how these at will powerrs are used.

This is your problem you missed the change to initiative in 3 ed

Rather than each round combatants rolling separate initiative everyone gets one initiative roll for the whole fight & this sets up a "continuous loop" of initiatives. After the first round you will always be acting after your target (& also before him).

Well that's no doubt even less clear than before but I would check out the initiative rules in the PHB - it works exceedingly well in practice.