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<blockquote data-quote="Pentius" data-source="post: 5648643" data-attributes="member: 6676736">Yeah, that nova round for your Thief sounds alot more impressive before you factor in that it uses an action point, a daily power, three encounter powers and then relies on three attacks hitting.While a 16 in one's primary stat works just fine, expecting an 18 is not terribly optimize-y.&nbsp; The 22-pt point buy method easily allows for a pre-racial 16 and the standard array includes one as well.&nbsp; I'd call it common sense to have your primary stat as your highest, so if you have a racial bonus to it, there's your 18.&nbsp; A pre-racial 18 is a sometimes used method, but also not always worth it.&nbsp; As for race synergies, those often tend to be obvious and thematic.&nbsp; For example, Elves make great Archer Rangers and Druids, in part because they have stat bumps to the most used stats of those classes.&nbsp; As for spending hours going through looking for synergies, it's not necessarily that non-casual.&nbsp; The character builder makes it easy, and if you have a fairly lax schedule, you can end up tinkering with a couple character ideas in it for awhile.&nbsp; I've done it.&nbsp; Heck, I'm pretty sure I've spent an hour or so, on at least one occasion, just reading through different rituals.Obviously Kzach isn't a casual gamer, in the sense of the type of player who just shows up to hang out, but he's also not a terribly gung-ho power gamer, at least from what I've seen of him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pentius, post: 5648643, member: 6676736"] Yeah, that nova round for your Thief sounds alot more impressive before you factor in that it uses an action point, a daily power, three encounter powers and then relies on three attacks hitting. While a 16 in one's primary stat works just fine, expecting an 18 is not terribly optimize-y. The 22-pt point buy method easily allows for a pre-racial 16 and the standard array includes one as well. I'd call it common sense to have your primary stat as your highest, so if you have a racial bonus to it, there's your 18. A pre-racial 18 is a sometimes used method, but also not always worth it. As for race synergies, those often tend to be obvious and thematic. For example, Elves make great Archer Rangers and Druids, in part because they have stat bumps to the most used stats of those classes. As for spending hours going through looking for synergies, it's not necessarily that non-casual. The character builder makes it easy, and if you have a fairly lax schedule, you can end up tinkering with a couple character ideas in it for awhile. I've done it. Heck, I'm pretty sure I've spent an hour or so, on at least one occasion, just reading through different rituals. Obviously Kzach isn't a casual gamer, in the sense of the type of player who just shows up to hang out, but he's also not a terribly gung-ho power gamer, at least from what I've seen of him. [/QUOTE]

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