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Will taking the same encounter power twice break anything?
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<blockquote data-quote="Goumindong" data-source="post: 4369136" data-attributes="member: 70874"><p>Wait, the rules say that you have to pick an encounter power of each level? I thought you could always pick one lower, so if you wanted two level 7 powers instead of a level 7 and 13 power you could do that by retraining your level 1 power. (you could not have two level 13 powers though) (ed: They say only one of each it seems)</p><p></p><p>Since having the same power twice or more means that you are explicitly giving up higher level encounter powers for it, there isn't much that is wrong with that situation and there are not really any encounter powers that can be chained to be exploitable(at least, as I see it there aren't)</p><p></p><p>If you want 2 of the same power you will have to be 1 rank behind(I.E. you wont have your closest level encounter power), if you want 3 of the same power you will be 2 ranks behind(I.E. same as above and you wont have the next closest level encounter power), if you want 4 of the same power you cant because you cant change out your paragon path power(and if you paragon multi-class you will be stuck with one or two from other classes)</p><p></p><p>E.G. Before you can have rain of blows 3 times you have to be level 13. Where you would miss things like "Chains of Sorrow", or "Anvil of Doom", of "storm of blows" which is pretty much explicitly better than "rain of blows" since you always get 3 attacks(rather than 2, or 4 if you hit the first two) and you get to shift 3 squares and you get to add dex to damage. If you wanted to keep those choices throughout your career you would lose a lot more very strong encounter powers(like "harrying assault" which once you hit lvl 21 is also explicitly better than "rain of blows").</p><p></p><p>Edit2: The real reason that they do not let you bundle up on powers is because the game becomes boring when you don't make choices. Just as it was boring in 3e when the fighter said "I attack" over and over again, its going to be boring in 4e if the fighter says "I rain of blows" 3 times in a row and then says "I cleave" until the end of the combat encounter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goumindong, post: 4369136, member: 70874"] Wait, the rules say that you have to pick an encounter power of each level? I thought you could always pick one lower, so if you wanted two level 7 powers instead of a level 7 and 13 power you could do that by retraining your level 1 power. (you could not have two level 13 powers though) (ed: They say only one of each it seems) Since having the same power twice or more means that you are explicitly giving up higher level encounter powers for it, there isn't much that is wrong with that situation and there are not really any encounter powers that can be chained to be exploitable(at least, as I see it there aren't) If you want 2 of the same power you will have to be 1 rank behind(I.E. you wont have your closest level encounter power), if you want 3 of the same power you will be 2 ranks behind(I.E. same as above and you wont have the next closest level encounter power), if you want 4 of the same power you cant because you cant change out your paragon path power(and if you paragon multi-class you will be stuck with one or two from other classes) E.G. Before you can have rain of blows 3 times you have to be level 13. Where you would miss things like "Chains of Sorrow", or "Anvil of Doom", of "storm of blows" which is pretty much explicitly better than "rain of blows" since you always get 3 attacks(rather than 2, or 4 if you hit the first two) and you get to shift 3 squares and you get to add dex to damage. If you wanted to keep those choices throughout your career you would lose a lot more very strong encounter powers(like "harrying assault" which once you hit lvl 21 is also explicitly better than "rain of blows"). Edit2: The real reason that they do not let you bundle up on powers is because the game becomes boring when you don't make choices. Just as it was boring in 3e when the fighter said "I attack" over and over again, its going to be boring in 4e if the fighter says "I rain of blows" 3 times in a row and then says "I cleave" until the end of the combat encounter. [/QUOTE]
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