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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 4788886" data-attributes="member: 59248">I think the "steamjack" reference was a double endendre or something.I'm not sure how closely you're sticking to the rules, given "he's a machine, so doesn't have mental stats" (but doesn't the -boy- have mental stats/skills as part of the partnership?  I'll note that even constructs have mental stats in 4e; there's no "undead don't have fort/int" as in earlier editions), but some of my recommendations do have Wis 13 requirements (though I correctly divined that melee ranger = Str as highest stat) -- I mentioned Battle Awareness, and the Invoker thing, but also the shaman thing (though I love the idea of the kid's giant robot also having a robot dog it can rebuild when it gets broken [but mostly only out of combat] and send around the battlefield) and the cleric multiclass.OTOH, Barbarian just requires Str and Con -- requirements you make with ease.  Plus the Barb dailies are great -- scaling -much- better than ranger dailies (eg, they have an effect that lasts all fight, wheras ranger dailies tend to do "one cool thing" and go away, something that only gets better and better as you level), and even the multiclass feat itself gives you a nice little "rage" that autoscales to the length of the fight and works really well with two-weapon builds.  So I agree that that's your best bet.</blockquote>