Would you like to help my Fighter? ^^

[boar]

Grammatical pedantry.

Man, sounds like you literally blew a gasket. I hope that making a post whose rudeness was matched only by its irrelevance made you feel better.

Back to the OP: are you looking at the updated version of Come and Get It? Instead of the silly shifting business, the power now simply pulls every enemy in the burst two squares, and they must be adjacent to you at the end of the pull. This is an amazing power that lets your rearrange the battlefield every single encounter, with you in the middle and a ton of bad guys next to you and marked. It's hard not to take it.

 

[Saeviomagy]

1w - Cleave -have not been using in a looong time, because usually survival is priority number 1, followed by protecting my buddies.
I am considering getting rid of cleave.. suggestions?

Do you never meet minions? Anyway, regardless: post errata you still get temp hps on a hit with cleave, so you might want to reconsider it.

1 - Dwarven Weapon Training (my only offensive feat, from my training as Dwarven Light Infantry);
2 - Toughness (what else?);
4 - Dwarf Stoneblood (see item above);
6 - Shield the Fallen (I love the sense of security I can grant my conrades with this one, but its highly situational... never actually used);
8 - Weapon Expertise;

Take distracting shield instead of shield the fallen. Same theme, much better feat.

 

[Klaus]

We hardly ever meet minions. A few times, over the past 6 levels.

 

[boar]

Since you're not meeting many minions, you're right that Cleave isn't terribly useful for you. With Crushing Surge as your literal bread and butter, you might want to consider Tide of Iron -- you can think of it as a utility power that comes into play when it's really useful to push somebody one square.

And if you never feel like pushing anybody one square, well, then it doesn't really matter what your second at-will is -- there's no law that says your second one has to be useful. Look at rangers and Twin Strike or melee clerics and Righteous Brand.

 

[Dr_Sage]

We hardly ever meet minions. A few times, over the past 6 levels.

Good memmory Klaus.

I was swarmed by them on levels 1 and 2. I know that becuse the momment I got Sweeping Blow (lv 3) I never got a chance to proprer use it to smash minions.

I also got Rain of Steel hoping to destroy them in the near future, "Lord of The Rings Style".

I think most people like Rain of Steel, becuse noone complained about it yet.


To Saeviomagy,

Interesting tip man. Distracting Shield seems nice to potencialize the Combat Challenge attack, giving a total -4 to the enemy against my allies.
Shield Push is also in the same theme.
My concern is that they depend on the monster ignoring me and only valid against my marked foe. I am under the impression that Shield of Fallen can help 1 buddy against a swarm of attacks or just help him with an important saving throw. Problem is: must be adjacent. Our DM have been using many close/area attacks... usually whoelse is next to me get it as well... usually Klaus. I do my best to make the monster blast me alone but that can be tricky is the party is surrounding a foe.


Have anyone tested those ideas, and Shield related feats?

 

[Klaus]

It's not a feat, but Rhino Strike is pretty good. A 2[W] power that can be used at the end of a charge (which plays well with your Boots of Adept Charging), and if you wield a shield, you don't provoke Opportunity Attacks from moving. Adds a lot of maneuverability to a fighter.

 

[Dr_Sage]

From Klaus:

"Level 4: Battle-Scarred Veteran <--- if you have no temp hp when using Crushing Surge, you get +1 to attack"

Hummm very interesting. Does the feat do anything else? Sorry I am not fammiliar with it.

 

[Klaus]

From Klaus:

"Level 4: Battle-Scarred Veteran <--- if you have no temp hp when using Crushing Surge, you get +1 to attack"

Hummm very interesting. Does the feat do anything else? Sorry I am not fammiliar with it.

It alters a few other at-wills, but only this for Fighter.

Sure, you *could* multi into Warlord to get Brash Assault).

It's a fighting style feat from the Gladiator article.

 

[Stalker0]

I'll echo Brash Strike and Come and Get It, definitely on the high end of the power scheme. Poor reaping strike got kicked to the curb by Brash Strike imo...but not that I'm complaining

Otherwise your guy seems fine to me, and it sounds like you enjoy playing him. I'm a big fan of the martial freedom feat you mentioned if you get hit with slow and immobilize a lot (the bane of the melee fighter).