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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 4290449" data-attributes="member: 1457">It's clearly worse than 3e reach, but Actions are still the king of combat, and anything that gives you an extra action is therefore still quite good. To address your specific issues:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It is a paragon feat. Nothing we can do about that. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The OA is triggered on enemy's "move adjacent", so people can run around you if they keep 1 square away. That makes it not as effective for crowd control as 3e's reach (or 4e's Threatening Reach), but as the title of the thread says, it also means that you can keep people from moving adjacent. Against monsters without ranged attacks or reach, that's pretty big deal--I'd say it's even superior to an OA triggering off "leaving a square". </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Granting combat advantage is a trade off. However, you can mitigate it with the Uncanny Dodge feat. You're still at risk for sneak attack and similar effects (they still have CA against you), but at least they don't get +2 to their attack.</li> </ul></blockquote>