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<blockquote data-quote="striatic" data-source="post: 5391669" data-attributes="member: 99945">except there's no guarantee that you will hurt the foe.a fighter still has to hit with their OA. if a monster has a high AC, the DM has a choice to make, and the risk of getting hit by the OA may be rather low. many monsters also have movement modes that make OAs impossible, like teleportation or &quot;move without drawing OAs&quot; abilities.far fewer [maybe not any?] have abilities that negate SSM damage reduction.the Assaulting Swordmage has similar problems. i've only played an assaulting build in heroic tier, and quite often the DM would ignore my mark because they figured i might roll low, or they could avoid line of sight, or they'd drop the target of their attack before my immediate reaction went off... or they just figured i'd hit them but they'd do more damage relative to total HP to my squishie buddy than i would do do to them, and would ignore the mark despite figuring everything would work as planned for the swordmage.shielding is a sure thing, and it is an interrupt. and it gets the most attention from the monsters. that's why i switched from playing assaulting to playing shielding. it just worked much much better, despite not being able to bounce around the map like Nightcrawler anymore : [</blockquote>

[QUOTE="striatic, post: 5391669, member: 99945"] except there's no guarantee that you will hurt the foe. a fighter still has to hit with their OA. if a monster has a high AC, the DM has a choice to make, and the risk of getting hit by the OA may be rather low. many monsters also have movement modes that make OAs impossible, like teleportation or "move without drawing OAs" abilities. far fewer [maybe not any?] have abilities that negate SSM damage reduction. the Assaulting Swordmage has similar problems. i've only played an assaulting build in heroic tier, and quite often the DM would ignore my mark because they figured i might roll low, or they could avoid line of sight, or they'd drop the target of their attack before my immediate reaction went off. .. or they just figured i'd hit them but they'd do more damage relative to total HP to my squishie buddy than i would do do to them, and would ignore the mark despite figuring everything would work as planned for the swordmage. shielding is a sure thing, and it is an interrupt. and it gets the most attention from the monsters. that's why i switched from playing assaulting to playing shielding. it just worked much much better, despite not being able to bounce around the map like Nightcrawler anymore : [ [/QUOTE]

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