NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6239730" data-attributes="member: 6696971">No problem!  Thanks for reading!  I didn't anticipate this particular conflict going in so it challenged me quite a bit from an improv perspective.  It was quite fun. Yeah.  I know folks really wanted an Epic Level Handbook.  However, if folks have a DDI sub (obviously that is an investment that may not be fair to be expected), there is pretty robust support in Dragon and Dungeon...especially for your vanilla antagonists for Epic Tier play;  Abyssal, Infernal and evil Fey Courts.  I highly recommend it.Outside of that, I just recommend "going big" and breaking all natural constraints or allow your PCs to "effectively break the game" as you put it.  Epic Tier PCs are superheroes battling cosmic forces afterall.Yeah.  Auras are the numero uno threat in Epic Tier play, hands down.  Epic Tier Hazards + overlapping Auras...big trouble in little China.  As such, passive mitigation (especially multiple lines of elemental mitigation) jumps up in value proportionately.We'll see about n + 8 at 30.  If you're a small group like mine you almost have to in order to deal with the level 34 Solos.  I would be interested to hear the highest budget that some of these larger groups have busted at level 27 +!  A group outfitted to advantage (not optimize...I'm talking real, "fiction-first" PCs here) the synergy of a Warlord's force multiplication abilities + some kind of vulnerability debuff (eg Radiant Mafia theme) might be absolutely crazy and able to deal with n + 8 regularly.  The Bladesinger is sort of a one man analogue to that with (basically perma) Bladesong and a ton of minor action attacks serving as his own personal Warlord.  When he hits 30, his Epic Destiny capstone will give him 2 Arcane spells of his choice from any class.  I already know that he'll be getting Swordmage's Level 25 Daily Quicksilver Blade (minor action MBA 1/turn).  Things are silly now and they're going to get sillier!</blockquote>

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