N8Ball
Explorer
[FONT="]Switching classes to warlord is an unlikely option, since the DM has built an epic storyline about a religious conflict based on our choice of classes. Besides, my friend is clearly interested playing a character who wields magic so I don’t think she’d enjoy being a warlord. The alternate cleric builds you’ve suggested are all good ideas, but my main problem is figuring out how to get A. to enact them without seeming like a controlling jerk. Now I’m realizing this is more of an etiquette issue and probably shouldn’t have been posted on the rules board, but thanks anyway for the replies.[/FONT]
One thing that our DM allowed is an in-class respec at level 6 so that we could correct all the poor character decisions and inefficiencies we made along the way since we were all new to 4E at the time.
We got 6 levels to learn, then get right with the game system and start kicking enemies teeth in. Every one of us was very much pleased with our respec characters after we got to shed some of our poorer decisions.