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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5641600" data-attributes="member: 63">In the online playtest, the party was not eager to fight Asrabey, but when he made his move, the party's hunter ranger tried to take him down. Asrabey opened up by loosing his lion shield to maul the hunter, conjuring smoke to hide in, and dropping a bunch of Risuri soldier allies with a flaming swipe. The party's knight tried to distract Asrabey's attention but missed his attack, while a second ranger in the party missed with twin strike and the cleric missed with <s>god-</s>philosophy-lasers. The party's wizard magic missiled him (damage!), and the executioner assassin, seeing how hard he was to hit, tried to move to flank with the knight. Only after the cleric went did the hunter start his turn and fall unconscious from being mauled.On Asrabey's second turn, he plunged his sword down the top of the knight's torso, had the lion shield attack the wizard to stop the magic missiles, then moved up beside the cleric, since he was at the moment out of range of the unconscious wizard, and would provoke an OA if he ran. The cleric and second ranger whiffed with their attacks, and the wizard was mauled to unconsciousness.And then it was our 1st level human executioner assassin's turn. She used Poisoned Dagger (which lets poison 'hit' even if the attack misses) to deliver her 'bloodroot poison' (which does 6 damage and dazes), then action pointed to Garrote Strangle (which targets Reflex).If I recall correctly, the final attack bonus was:+5 Dexterity+1 Ki Focus Expertise+3 Proficiency w/garrote+2 Combat Advantage (target dazed, also no lion shield)+3 Action Surge+4 Heroic EffortTotal: +18 vs. Reflex 33She hit, did 14 damage (on top of the 6 from poison and 6 from the magic missile), and started to strangle Asrabey. She got her chest punctured for the trouble. On Asrabey's third turn, he neatly disemboweled the insolent assassin, and couldn't call off the lion shield since he was dazed, so it just munched on the wizard. But since he was dazed, the cleric could move. Afraid of the shield, he ran and shouted a healing word to the unconscious hunter ranger.The ranger woke up, saw his team nearly dead, and drew an iron spike he'd picked up earlier during the immurement encounter (despite having a perfectly good bow; his thinking was 'fey don't like iron'). Then he chucked the spike and used his encounter power that does damage on a miss, which was just enough to do the job. The blunt end of the spike bonked Asrabey on the back of his head, and he sagged to the ground.</blockquote>

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