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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5024544" data-attributes="member: 11821">So would you argue, then, that a swordmage should be able to add Iron Armbands damage to all of their close, ranged, and area attacks?  The only way this works is if you claim that "melee damage" is really supposed to be read, "damage dealt by a melee weapon" in which case, the gap between implements and weapon/implements just got even wider.Melee is pretty clearly defined as a type of attack.  A close attack is not a melee attack, even if you're using a melee weapon.Weapon Focus works the way it does because of its specific wording.  It doesn't specify melee or ranged; it just says something like "using this weapon."  You can use a weapon as an implement, and therefore it works.  (Note, I don't particularly love this.  And I'd much rather it were more specific, and even think that it would be if it were re-written today.  But that's just the way it is.)-O</blockquote>