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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 4854859" data-attributes="member: 63763">I'm not so sure about that. While it costs a minor action to put it on and you have to 'keep it up' ... which requires as much effort as the fighter or warden needs to keep their marks up (attack or be adjacent), it requires no action to use it when triggered. You don't trigger off movement, but you don't have to be adjacent when you trigger it. Unlike with a swordmage your enemy doesn't have to hit your ally for divine challenge to work, nor do you have to hit the enemy to deal the damage, which all the other marks have to do. It does the least damage (of the ones that do damage), but considering there are no random elements (works on hit or miss by the marked creature, and you don't have to hit either) it has a chance of doing comparable damage over time. There is also the fact that, unlike other defenders, you have your immediate action available for use of interupting attacks, magic item uses, readied actions, etc ... instead of having to use them for your mark's secondary effect.</blockquote>