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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 5568385" data-attributes="member: 360">IB is strictly better for a swordmage, and was pre-Essentials; IB lets you use Int for ranged attacks with heavy thrown weapons (and one of the swordmage-themed magic weapons grants the heavy thrown property to any heavy or light blade), while Melee Training (Intelligence) does not.  That's indication of a flaw in the Battlemind, not Intelligent Blademaster (though really, IB should be a swordmage class feature, not a feat). Pretty much every other melee class (and certainly all other defenders) except the Battlemind has a way to make an MBA based on its primary stat, either due to being Str-based, a class feature that effectively grants pre-Essential melee training, or having an at-will that can be used as an MBA.</blockquote>