D&D 4E Wizards to be like Fighters in 4e!

[MerricB]

Yes, we have it from Mike Mearls!

Mike Mearls:
One of the goals I have for this development pass is to pay attention to the soul of the game, to make sure that any given part of the game feels right. If you play a halfling, you should feel like a tricky, agile little guy bouncing around the battlefield, dancing just out of reach of the orc's scimitar. The dwarf should shrug off attacks that would drop a twee little elf, while the elf is the first guy you want along when you go marching into the woods. Obviously, the classes fall into the same category. A ranger should feel like a ranger, a wizard should feel like a fighter.
http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=13749490&postcount=25

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So... what do you think of this change?

Cheers!

 

[Lancelot]

That's it. 4e is dead to me. My succubi are now devils, my wizards are now fighters... dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria...

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I for one am excited. If anything, wizards needed to be more like fighters. I would always turn to our resident wizard player and say "Dammit Jim, you're just too useful!" Now I don't have to worry about that anymore. He's going to be just as useless as my fighter!

 

[Tarek]

For some reason, I think this might just be a "freudian slip", given the pattern of the sentence preceding it...

...and reading the full post, I am confirmed in this belief.

Wow, you guys really took the bait on that one.

...we should report Mike for trolling. Okay, that was a small joke.

 

[Badkarmaboy]

Yes, we have it from Mike Mearls!

Mike Mearls:
One of the goals I have for this development pass is to pay attention to the soul of the game, to make sure that any given part of the game feels right. If you play a halfling, you should feel like a tricky, agile little guy bouncing around the battlefield, dancing just out of reach of the orc's scimitar. The dwarf should shrug off attacks that would drop a twee little elf, while the elf is the first guy you want along when you go marching into the woods. Obviously, the classes fall into the same category. A ranger should feel like a ranger, a wizard should feel like a fighter.
http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=13749490&postcount=25

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So... what do you think of this change?

Cheers!

Merric, did you neglect the next sentence on purpose?

Quote from Mike Mearls:
That last bit was a complete brain fart, but I'll keep it in there to check to see if anyone is paying attention. Cue rampant rumors that wizards are becoming fighters in 4e.

 

[RandomCitizenX]

If you read right below that state me he says that it was a brain fart and that he would leave it in to see who was paying attention

"That last bit was a complete brain fart, but I'll keep it in there to check to see if anyone is paying attention. Cue rampant rumors that wizards are becoming fighters in 4e."



.... damn, beaten to the punch

 

[Branduil]

Fine by me.

 

[Ragnar_Deerslayer]

Uh, guys? Merric totally labeled this with the "humor" tag. I think he got the joke.

 

[MerricB]

See also Richard Rahl from Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series, and Ingold Inglorion from Hambly's "The Darwath Trilogy".

This is a fantastic change, which fully embraces the changes that have been occuring in the Wizard's character through popular fantasy fiction of the late 20th and early 21st Century!

Cheers!

 

[helium3]

I for one, shall be starting a hunger strike until WoTC promises to not let wizards be like fighters.