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<blockquote data-quote="Kordeth" data-source="post: 4213234" data-attributes="member: 5036">Based on the other at-will buffing abilities we've seen, from this preview, the older Warlord preview, and the DDXP cleric, the fact that the warlord gives up his own attack is what pushes this into &quot;marginal&quot; territory for me.Likewise, the confirmation that you have to be in melee range to pull it off just stings--assuming warlords are mostly a melee class (which, granted, isn't a given but seems likely based on the powers we've seen), you're not even given the opportunity to convert an otherwise wasted standard action into an ally's attack in most cases; any time you can use this power, you could also hit the monster yourself.I see a lot of potential warlord player frustration in the form of &quot;well, the fighter/rogue/whatever has a better hit bonus than me, so I'll let him hit the orge again.&quot; That doesn't sound as fun or memorable as &quot;crap, even with a charge I can't get to the big bad to help out this round--but the fighter's already there, I'll give him my attack!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kordeth, post: 4213234, member: 5036"] Based on the other at-will buffing abilities we've seen, from this preview, the older Warlord preview, and the DDXP cleric, the fact that the warlord gives up his own attack is what pushes this into "marginal" territory for me. Likewise, the confirmation that you have to be in melee range to pull it off just stings--assuming warlords are mostly a melee class (which, granted, isn't a given but seems likely based on the powers we've seen), you're not even given the opportunity to convert an otherwise wasted standard action into an ally's attack in most cases; any time you can use this power, you could also hit the monster yourself. I see a lot of potential warlord player frustration in the form of "well, the fighter/rogue/whatever has a better hit bonus than me, so I'll let him hit the orge again." That doesn't sound as fun or memorable as "crap, even with a charge I can't get to the big bad to help out this round--but the fighter's already there, I'll give him my attack!" [/QUOTE]

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