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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4739230" data-attributes="member: 43019">Not really - I can't houserule LFR games. For the game I'm starting tomorrow as DM, I've houseruled appropriately.Other than that - I enjoy hitting with the powers I already have... that's why I took them in the first place. I'm not necessarily going to even have a need for Athletics on my warlock, but I know I'll be disappointed if my diabolic grasp misses and I don't get to slide someone around, or if frigid darkness misses so the rogue can't get his sneak attack or other people miss.Now, I certainly enjoy some feats _more_ than a minor +1 to hit... which is why I took them. Ultimately I'm extremely disappointed that 4e contains several feats that bear a passive and direct impact on a character's combat performance (bonuses to attack, damage, etc) instead of a bunch of flavor feats. Expertise is not the only example, but it's the most offensive for the size of the bonus and its poor design in other areas (you're a dragonborn bard / scion of arkhosia who uses a sword in one hand and instrument in the other? Oh, sucks to be you...)I'd rather I had a huge list of feats that did nifty things that had almost no bearing on overall combat prowess or allowed suboptimal tactics to come up to snuff so people could make their odder ideas work.For example? Let's take my wife's elf druid, for instance, who already has all the skills she wants due to her initial selection, background, and possibly 1st level feat (that is, she doesn't want to improve her social skills, and has nature, perception, athletics, and acrobatics covered). She's an elf but doesn't care about any of the 'better elven precision feats' - she'll probably take Light Step someday but she could honestly just RP having it for the same effect on actual gameplay that it will have, she might consider the druid charging feat since she does at least rarely charge so a bonus to attack and damage in that circumstance could be fine... the other druid feat wasn't appropriate for her though I don't remember what it was off the top of my head (paragon has great stuff for her, though). So, it's level 1, 2, or 4 say and she has to pick a feat. She could get a minor bonus when she charges, or she could get a minor bonus with every attack she makes, including charges. Hard choice.Somehow Weapon Focus and Implement Expertise made it onto her list. Maybe after Primal Power is out she'll have another 2 options, but by that time she'll also be level 16 with 9 feats and dropping Expertise's +2 would be downright silly.I'd not be surprised if she takes Skill Focus (Perception) sometime, though, so she goes from automaking every perception check in the game to automaking them with even more silly numbers. But she might as well get a feat that actually does something for her first.</blockquote>

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