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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elric" data-source="post: 4748310" data-attributes="member: 1139">I agree with this sentiment, but Illusory Assault is in Arcane Power, according to people who already have the book.  So it's going to be pretty standard on wizard builds in the future.It's not a total wash for light armor, since AC is attacked much more often than each FRW.  If AC and each FRW were attacked equally, then it would be a wash.  This example is also in the case of solo opponents- in a fight against 5 opponents, the debuffs are less effective, but the armor is not.You have a point.  The powers that only inflict penalties to hit would be easier to run as (until end of monster's next turn) and wouldn't significantly impact their power.  However, for powers like Daze, you generally want the effect to run until the end of the player's next turn so, among other things, the whole party (including the character who caused the effect) can get combat advantage from it.</blockquote>