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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4990893" data-attributes="member: 5143">The reason I get annoyed at them is because of the stuff that keeps being brought into my games that is clearly overpowered based on "I read it on the CharOp boards, there is no way they'd give me stuff that wasn't legal."  Then, when I read the rules it always comes down to the way someone reads a specific sentence somewhere.  If I choose to read it slightly differently the game stays balanced.As for the handbooks, my ire to them comes from reading the Avenger one.  It basically said that there were only two ways of making an Avenger: The guy who runs around enemies randomly provoking Opportunity Attacks and the one that does everything he can to get enemies to move away from them on their turns voluntarily.Of course, it's fairly obvious that the way they are intended to be played is that, despite the names, the Pursuing Avenger wants enemies to stay next to him and acts as a sort of Defender, while the Isolating Avenger encourages all the other enemies NOT to attack him through the use of his class features while occupying one of the enemies by himself, acting as a sort of controller by preventing the enemies from working together.Of course, in order to do the most damage possible, you want your class feature to trigger the most often.  But to do so basically means playing the class in the exact opposite method it was meant to be played in.  The guide never says this.  In fact, it is written in such a way as to make it sound like playing the class in the intended way is stupid.  It then goes on to rate all of the powers in the class assuming that you are using one of the two valid tactics for creating an Avenger.  It rates a bunch of the powers that are GOOD for Avengers as bad because they cause the class features to trigger less often.It then basically tells everyone that the best idea as an Avenger is to multiclass as Rogue and use a Dagger, since that's the only way to qualify for Daggermaster.  It made comments to the effect that playing a single class Avenger who took a Paragon Path that was designed for Avengers was a fools game.And yes, following the advice of the guide maximizes your damage output.  It's a good idea if you care about nothing but damage output.  But it was completely useless for me when deciding what to take for my Avenger.  And it certainly shouldn't be advice for new players.</blockquote>

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