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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5085706" data-attributes="member: 59248">Actually, the primary reason melee strikers are always mobile (and that strikers are generally mobile; good catch on that for why Wizards has favored putting them in light armor) is because the striker formula isn't "moar damage" -- it's "moar damage + target choice".  In order to have a good choice of targets, you more or less need mobility -- either to get to the right point in melee to be able to take out your target, or to get -out- of melee and keep blasting.Same reason, really, that Stealth is rare among non-strikers.  But that doesn't mean dex builds (which are what you want if you want to pick up Stealth via a background, racial, or whatnot) need to be as rare as they are (particularly among leaders).The stat preferences are kinda interesting, mind.  I mean, we've got:Defender: StrStriker: DexController: IntLeader: WisArcane: Int, ControllingMartial: Str, DefendingPrimal: Con, StrikingDivine: Wis, LeadingNot sure about Psionic (I'd guess Controlling/Wis) and Shadow (striking/Dex again?  Striking/Con?) yet.But regarding the role/stat relationship, it's kinda clear why -that- is -- there are fairly strong relationships between certain skills and certain roles (all Leaders have heal as a class skill, most strikers have Stealth and nobody (ish?) else does, most/all Controllers have Arcane, most defenders have Althletics and probably Intimidate (why isn't Intimidate the Str based social skill again? We could have had Dip=wis, Bluff=chr, Int=Str and let everyone talk), and the skills help push design.</blockquote>

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