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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5760198" data-attributes="member: 82106">In a nutshell, its pact boon triggers when you either kill something or an enemy dies in a square adjacent to you. The chances of that happening (for a class that has no reason to get near an enemy otherwise) is unlikely at best. So you basically have a pact boon that triggers maybe a couple times a level. At which point you get to slide or teleport an enemy 3 squares. Wow! Beyond that you just have powers and whatnot that are strictly in every sense inferior to a regular warlock, lock stock and barrel. A straight warlock can poach all your powers (some have riders, but honestly a lot of the riders aren't that great). It is just really sub-par and you can get ALMOST everything the binder offers without being a binder. It isn't unplayable, there's just no reason TO play it. The class needs something. Basically it needs a pact boon that actually works. If you could trigger the boon 2-3 times per fight reliably it would start to at least have a good core control function. You'd probably still need something else to spice it up. At least a couple good solid feats that can't be poached by other 'locks. Something. Honestly I think the root of the problem is that the concept is weak and the class lacks a real niche that it owns. It is supposed to be a 100% controller version of warlock, but regular 'locks are really not bad controllers if built in that direction, PLUS they're still going to dish out some respectable (and at high levels very impressive) damage. So there's just insufficient differentiation there to give it any real niche protection. On top of that we have the Mage/Arcanist, which is a bang-up arcane controller too. There's just not a compelling archetype for the class to be built around nor a role niche that needed to be filled. I think it was a class concept that really should have been axed, but at some point they must have realized they had nothing else to go with and a book that needed to be wrapped, so they went with it. Sometimes things just don't gel and the binder just didn't gel.</blockquote>

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