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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thundershield" data-source="post: 4741700" data-attributes="member: 55219">Bayuer does have a point here. While it's okay - at least for some players - that high-level monsters hit the players more often, it does get problematic when NADs fall so much behind that a given defense becomes irrelevant as the monster can only miss on a 1 (and even then only 'cause a natural 1 is an auto-miss). It takes the whole point of having that defense out of the game. 4E is built around the idea of maintaining a challenge in any given dice roll, as opposed to 3.5 where a 6th-level Fighter/6th-level Dwarven Defender might have an AC around 50, making it impossible for anything to hit him. To maintain a challenge, there has to be a decent chance for the roll to fail as well as a decent chance for the roll to succeed. I'm not necessarily talking about a 50/50, but at least a 30% for either should persist on a regular basis. It's fine if a power or temporary bonus brings this as low as 10% for failure or success, or possibly even 5% if it's very temporary, but beyond that the point of a given roll becomes a mere formality, the random chance that this roll represents taken out of the game. I've been considering increasing the way masterwork armor scales (possibly even having masterwork cloth armor at +2) and also make amulets/cloaks/capes and the like have masterwork versions, but I must admit that the idea of giving players +1 to three stats at levels 4, 8, 14, etc. also sounds very interesting. It would, however, be good to know the developers' view on the problem. Are the PH2 feats just a temporary solution? Are they the final solution? How will this problem affect future content? Is it a problem to them?</blockquote>

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