Skill Training vs. Multiclassing

[Dayspire]

One of my players wants the Insight skill, but he's a warlord, and it's not on his skill list. He has two options:

1) Take the feat Skill Training: Insight. You get Insight as a skill.

2) Take the feat Soldier of the Faith. You get Insight as a skill, divine challenge 1/encounter, you can use the Paragon Paths for the paladin, and you can use a holy avenger if you ever find one.

Am I missing something here? Can you think of any reason to take Skill Training rather than a multiclass feat that grants you the skill you're looking for?*



* I'm not forgetting about roleplaying here, this is strictly a mechanical question.

 

[Blackbrrd]

1) You have multiclassed into another class?
2) You want two skills?

 

[Surgoshan]

You might not meet the prereqs for multiclassing. I made a rogue whose strength never made it above 12, for example.

 

[Dayspire]

1) You have multiclassed into another class?
2) You want two skills?

I have no idea what you're talking about here. Can you clarify?

 

[Kordeth]

I have no idea what you're talking about here. Can you clarify?

You can only multiclass once, so if your warlord, for example, would rather dabble in wizardry or roguedom, then he should take Skill Training. Likewise, if your warlord wants Insight and, for example, Arcana as trained skills, he should also take Skill Training because he can only multiclass once,

 

[simply not edible]

There is a reason - you can only take one multiclass feat, and any skill beyond the one requires the Skill Training feat.

 

[Roger]

In addition to the issue of only being able to multiclass once, there's also ability score prerequisites for Soldier of the Faith, unlike Skill Training.

I don't think Soldier of the Faith opens up the paladin paragon paths either, but I'm not entirely sure on that.


Cheers,
Roger

 

[darkbard]

Addressing #1: You can only multiclass into one class beyond your primary class in 4E, so if you take that Soldier of the Faith feat, you'll never be able to multiclass as a Rogue, say, or a Warlock and gain those powers.

 

[DerekSTheRed]

You can only multiclass once but you can take the skill training feat multiple times (once for each skill). You also might not meet the feat's prerequisites. Otherwise, multiclass away. If you find out you want to multiclass into something else later, retrain the paladin multiclass feat to skill training. He can retrain it as long as he hasn't selected a Paladin Paragon Path (alliteration ftw).

Derek

 

[Logos7]

Not that I can tell, besides the fact that to get alot (5 skills) you would have to multiclass as a ranger or as a warlock for the another 2.

Maybe you don't want to mutliclass as a ranger or a warlock? (ranger is not so bad its the arcane flavour of the warlock that i know would prevent me sometimes, but that's not mechanics)

Also You can't multiclass twice, (or at least with feats) so that's why it gets it own spot in the feat section.

Logos