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<blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 5501879" data-attributes="member: 63763"><p>This seems to be one of those cases where they may be using the stats from the character builder well. There are situations where they seem to have made a mistake [i.e. they stopped building "V-shaped classes", and they may see that not many people were playing runepriests and seekers]. The assumption is that these things are unpopular because they are not supported, but they may also be upsupported because they are unpopular. Support might be able to get them to the point where they are playable (divine power at least gave enough powers for the strength paladin so it could pick a strength based attack for each of it's dailies which it couldn't in PHB1; they eventually gave star pact warlocks a con based paragon path instead of having a charima paragon path and a con based at-will from PHB1) but even then, its quite possible that it isn't just lack of power options and feat support, it may require a bit more work to fix it. The Hunter ranger, for example, seems like a second pass at the seeker. In some ways, the question becomes which is a best use of time/effort. For new books at least, making sure it's something people will play [either new stuff, or support for relatively popular stuff] as opposed to trying to retroactively make older stuff get played more. I.e. You are trying to sell this book, not use this book to get people buying PHB3. Now, with the Dragon articles, things are different. They have access to all classes, and they aren't selling issues of Dragon based on people knowing exactly what they are getting. Still, an article that is only helpful for a small number of players playing unsuported classes/races, and trying to convince other people to play them to, may not be as useful as something that promotes the books that people are less likey to have (i.e. the newest releases) and articles that are useful to a broader section of the readers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalterKovacs, post: 5501879, member: 63763"] This seems to be one of those cases where they may be using the stats from the character builder well. There are situations where they seem to have made a mistake [i.e. they stopped building "V-shaped classes", and they may see that not many people were playing runepriests and seekers]. The assumption is that these things are unpopular because they are not supported, but they may also be upsupported because they are unpopular. Support might be able to get them to the point where they are playable (divine power at least gave enough powers for the strength paladin so it could pick a strength based attack for each of it's dailies which it couldn't in PHB1; they eventually gave star pact warlocks a con based paragon path instead of having a charima paragon path and a con based at-will from PHB1) but even then, its quite possible that it isn't just lack of power options and feat support, it may require a bit more work to fix it. The Hunter ranger, for example, seems like a second pass at the seeker. In some ways, the question becomes which is a best use of time/effort. For new books at least, making sure it's something people will play [either new stuff, or support for relatively popular stuff] as opposed to trying to retroactively make older stuff get played more. I.e. You are trying to sell this book, not use this book to get people buying PHB3. Now, with the Dragon articles, things are different. They have access to all classes, and they aren't selling issues of Dragon based on people knowing exactly what they are getting. Still, an article that is only helpful for a small number of players playing unsuported classes/races, and trying to convince other people to play them to, may not be as useful as something that promotes the books that people are less likey to have (i.e. the newest releases) and articles that are useful to a broader section of the readers. [/QUOTE]
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