D&D 4E What are the generally powerful classes in 4e?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Fair enough, but Seeker is so poor it deserves a category all to itself.

Can't really argue with that- giving them some heavy thrown weapons would be a nice start.

 

[Kzach]

Fair enough, but Seeker is so poor it deserves a category all to itself.

Eh, it's only poor in a game full of powergamers and it's only poor in that situation because it's extremely difficult to optimise the class. In a regular game with regular folk playing regular characters, it's just fine.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Overall I agree with Kzach. 4E is well balanced until someone tries to break the game. I do think that the Seeker and Runepriest are on the low end of good classes, though. They could use a bit of help.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Overall I agree with Kzach. 4E is well balanced until someone tries to break the game. I do think that the Seeker and Runepriest are on the low end of good classes, though. They could use a bit of help.

At least a bit of support along the lines of the various Powers books would be nice. You know...a FEW more options. Like the other classes got.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

At least a bit of support along the lines of the various Powers books would be nice. You know...a FEW more options. Like the other classes got.

Yup. Pity that we almost certainly won't ever see Arcane, Divine, Primal, and Psionic Power 2.

Brad

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Yup. Pity that we almost certainly won't ever see Arcane, Divine, Primal, and Psionic Power 2.

Brad

Primal seems to me to be the one with the most need. Honestly I don't think there's anything like a need for another power book for every power source at this point. It would be better to have some sort of focused source book that targeted a few specific classes/builds would be best. Artificer, Swordmage (ensnarement particularly), Ruthless Ruffian, Swarm Druid, Seeker, and Runepriest could really use some fixes and added support. Sorcerer could use some PP support since they got booted from the most useful ones. Throw in some tweaks to Practices and Rituals and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of and that should about fix things up. There are a few races that could use a bit of love too. I don't think there's enough material for a whole round of new power books though, they'd end up with a lot of 'filler' material IMHO.

I think what mainly stops WotC from doing this is just that 'mixed bag' type books like that don't sell super well. There's very little "I gotta have that" type material from a player standpoint in a book like that. Completists would love it and some DMs would probably pick it up, but I doubt a book like that would make money. Of course I doubt any new power books would either. I think the best thing we can do is keep bombarding DDI's mailbox with article proposals