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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5150374" data-attributes="member: 11821">If they shift from one square adjacent to you into another square adjacent to you.  (In which case they're probably just trying to set up a flank, because they sure as heck aren't trying to get away from your OAs or Mind Spike.)Or, If you have a feat like Mark of Passage, to make it more like an exploit than a proper use of the class feature.And even given all of the above, after you block that shift, they could still just charge away from you.For general purposes, it's fairly useless as-written, unless you think WotC was anticipating a dragonmark feat as a good feat tax to make the ability minimally useful.  Right now, the enemy can shift away and charge, and the Battlemind is barely sticky at all.If it's a free action, timed as a reaction, it opens up the following:(1) You can follow shifting enemies and stay adjacent - even if they move on a diagonal away from you!  Or even if they have allies (or difficult terrain) to either side!(2) If they still try to move away, you get to make one of those cool OA's granted by your Daily stance because your OA hasn't been eaten already by Blurred Step!(3) Now, Blurred Step properly sets you up for a follow-up Mind Spike if they attack someone after you follow them, no matter what vagaries of diagonals they shift on....all of which seem like proper things for a Defender class feature to do.IMO, it's overly apologetic to WotC to believe that Blurred Step is supposed to work as it's written to work.  It'll be far from the first time they've made a mistake like this.  I predict you'll see it in the May errata.-O</blockquote>

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