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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 5714945" data-attributes="member: 54710">This is a slightly strange context to discuss silo-ing.  In the combat vs. non-combat example, a silo is a situation where players are required to take combat abilities and non-combat abilities from two different pools of resources.  It prevents you from having a single pool of 5 combat options and 5 non-combat options where a player is allowed to pick 4 combat options and 0 non-combat options.Your example, in which there are 5 options (pick 2), each of which contains a combat ability and a non-combat ability is just another form of silo.  Players still have to pick 2 combat powers and 2 non-combat powers.  It's just that when they choose one, the other is chosen automatically.Personally, I'm inclined to silo in the traditional way (i.e. two unconnected pools).  That's mostly because I suspect the "every daily power has a combat and non-combat ability" design paradigm will prove difficult and complicated.  It's just a different way of bundling character abilities together.  Whenever you bundle, you decrease the number of combinations which provides fewer choices (and some benefit -- fewer combinations to analyze).  But it's not obvious to me that martial combat and non-combat abilities combine well.  I get that Brutal Strike should be combined with "giant door smash" power, but should they be the same power (i.e. a daily one)?  Who wants to use their big attack on a door?-KS</blockquote>

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