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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5260093" data-attributes="member: 996">Interesting.  That would explain how you can get away with giving Controllers such remarkable potent at-wills and versatile utilities compared, say to Defenders.  I'm still not sure I entirely see it, but it's interesting.Still, you have to retain class balance within each role.  If the Knight isn't up to snuff, it'll be ignored and people will keep playing Fighters.  If the Knight is able to compete with Fighters, Swordmages and the like in circumstances where they get to make liberal use of their dailies, it'll overshadow them when the dailies run out or need to be conserved.  You'll have balance like you had in 1e and 3e - balanced in the long run, on average, but with big situational and campaign-specific swings that can include one class or another sucking or dominating throughout a given campaign.  A much less robust sort of balance.The same 'schedule of powers' puts everyone on the same resource-management footing, which made the classes much better balanced and the DMs job much easier.  Backsliding and giving different classes radically different resource-management issues would make the game harder for you to balance - and harder for each DM to keep balanced.Hopefully, Essentials will be more along the lines of what we've seen of the Mage and Warpriest so far - edging a bit towards the classics, but mainly in feel - and the Knight's yet-to-be-detailed features will turn out to put it on more even footing with 4e classes like the Fighter, in terms of both overall effectiveness and resource-management.</blockquote>

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