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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5627489" data-attributes="member: 3424">Like the Essentials knight and slayer fighters, a radiant avenger's at-will attacks are weapon basic attacks augmented by stances. However, for flavor reasons, a radiant avenger's "stances" are called battle blessings, even though they have the stance keyword and are treated as stances mechanically. From an in-game perspective, the radiant avenger asks his deity to bestow a specific benefit on him, which persists as long as he maintains it (by the rules, as long as he does not fall unconscious or die), or until he asks for another one.At 1st level, a radiant avenger gains 2 battle blessings. He gains a third battle blessing at 7th level, and a fourth at 17th level.On a more personal note, I must confess that even though it more or less works out to the same thing in practice, I find the idea of invoking battle blessings to be more satisfying than the normal 4E approach of attacking with at-will prayers. Perhaps this is because the latter feels to me more like the paladin attacking directly with divine magic, while the former is closer to the traditional approach of a paladin using divine magic to enhance his weapon skills.</blockquote>