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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4549353" data-attributes="member: 1054">Sorry, I may have been unclear. Based on what I've heard -- and I freely admit this is incomplete -- you can't have a ranger who divides his AW/E/D powers between, say, ranged combat and managing his beast. You want a pet, you take the &quot;I have a pet!&quot; class feature, and then you pick your powers to support it. While I assume you can choose the &quot;wrong&quot; powers, it will be self-evident that they're wrong, and choosing them will mostly be an exercise in masochism (or sadism, if you like seeing the whole party die because you went out of your way to be sub-par.)I'd love to be wrong, because it would mean 4e is moving away from a fixed price menu and towards an a la carte system, which can only be counted a good thing. In the long run, it's not relevant -- there WILL eventually be enough builds to cover any halfway plausible archetype. It's just that the design as it stands requires you to either wait for the &quot;official&quot; release or roll your own. (Mostly, it's the &quot;class features&quot; that are the problem; if builds were purely a matter of which POWERS you picked, the system would be far more flexible and interesting. As it is, though, for many classes, you pick your feature and IT picks your powers.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4549353, member: 1054"] Sorry, I may have been unclear. Based on what I've heard -- and I freely admit this is incomplete -- you can't have a ranger who divides his AW/E/D powers between, say, ranged combat and managing his beast. You want a pet, you take the "I have a pet!" class feature, and then you pick your powers to support it. While I assume you can choose the "wrong" powers, it will be self-evident that they're wrong, and choosing them will mostly be an exercise in masochism (or sadism, if you like seeing the whole party die because you went out of your way to be sub-par.) I'd love to be wrong, because it would mean 4e is moving away from a fixed price menu and towards an a la carte system, which can only be counted a good thing. In the long run, it's not relevant -- there WILL eventually be enough builds to cover any halfway plausible archetype. It's just that the design as it stands requires you to either wait for the "official" release or roll your own. (Mostly, it's the "class features" that are the problem; if builds were purely a matter of which POWERS you picked, the system would be far more flexible and interesting. As it is, though, for many classes, you pick your feature and IT picks your powers.) [/QUOTE]

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