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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 6243394" data-attributes="member: 43019">There's a couple stand out powers and epic destiny features that can warp the game, but it's pretty easy for those to not come up.For example, at 23rd level your PCs might begin starting combats with a burst 6 stun attack. So, that warps the metagame a bit. Or might start hitting every foe in the encounter, however spread out they are.At 27th level, Hurricane of Blades makes the already ridiculous Storm of Blades look wimpy. Also, expect to lose a monster at the start of their turn to A Plan Comes Together. Actually, monsters often die on their turns to immediates and the like, so monster immediates become less useful (between daze + being bloodied and dying on turn) so look to free actions and no actions, as appropriate. That said, it's good to let dazed still do something <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Radiant optimization gets a bit stupid, with stacking vulnerability and bursts of radiance that can mean that on a single turn a PC does over 1000 damage and gives vulnerable 50+ radiant to the entire encounter.Mobility improves - flight, bigger teleports, shifts of speed (or more). What might have meant a PC losing a round to positioning at lower level tends to just require an encounter trick to avoid.In general, you want combats to either get bigger with foes that can operate at range, or get closer to make unfriendly close bursts harder. You also have to expect that several monsters will never get a chance to act, and plan accordingly. A battle against a solo and 5 standards is generally a better encounter than one against a single higher level solo... personally I tend to like ~2 elites and 4 standards.That said, the game still does play _mostly_ like it used. It really just is a few outliers, and you could easily have a PC who hasn't taken any of them.</blockquote>

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