In reply to Nezumi (msg # 903):

I usually don't plan that far in advance but I stated a need to act differently.

If you focus on fire that will often work with what Khalid does. His at-will fire attack also deals fire damage to enemies adjacent to the target, so that provides additional opportunity to leverage that vulnerability.

Grock is a melee AoE skirmisher with movement powers.

In reply to Grock (msg # 905):

So far, Khalid hasn't done much to keep Grock from taking damage. What could Grock do if he had to reduce his time spent in range of enemy attacks?

There isn’t much. The most he can do is try to shift away every other round. What does his mark do exactly that discourages/prevents an enemy from attacking somebody else?

In reply to Grock (msg # 907):

The standard -2 penalty, and he gets to teleport next to them (flanking, if possible) and make a basic attack. Which I'm fine with them knowing.

Once per encounter, I can use my level 7 encounter as my triggered attack, which also punishes them for moving.

I would have stayed adjacent to the enemy in the last fight, but that just let him use his double attack at no penalty, so it was just making things worse.

I would have flanked, but there was an unfriendly zone there.

Rynoth is a somewhat mobile striker that leans toward ranged attacks but has close-quarters options as well. Damage-wise, his at-wills are untyped or psychic, he has one each of encounters dealing thunder, cold, or psychic, and his dailies deal fire and thunder. (The dailies also change/add to the psychic at-will.)

Defense and secondary effects are at least as significant in terms of which he uses, though.


He could set one of his at-wills to provide limited save-granting, but it's dependent on both him and the ally who needs a save hitting the same target, so a bit iffy.


Since the original mention of this was some time (and a few players) ago: he does grant everyone a +2 power bonus to Endurance checks just by being in the party. This doesn't come up in combat very often, but you never know.

Three strikers is more than a "standard" party of 5 would have. So, we just want to focus on taking stuff out fast. As long as it doesn't have a multi-attack power, I can flank with someone. If it does, two melee strikers could flank for each other, maybe shifting in such a way as to let me teleport into a flank if they're attacked.

DM, one thing to consider is giving us an action point early, if it seems like we had to spend a lot of healing or other daily resources in a given encounter.

We should all have +1 AP after that last encounter since it was the second of the outing.

Maybe not quite ALL unless my encounter with Baaz on my own counts as a separate encounter from the one I came in and finished.

Correct, all but Baaz/Nezumi get +1 AP.

Right, I just meant in general, not necessarily right now. That's a knob the DM can turn: more frequent action points.

A curious thing happened. Got an application for a leader, a cunning bard - offering control and well..leadertype ability.

If this is of interest, I can bring him in asap. Is that of interest?

In reply to Storyteller (msg # 915):

Fine by me, as long as they seem like the kind of person for your game.

Same

Sure.

Alright. So, I'm hoping to be the one you are looking for. Hopefully I'll be in the game long enough for things to work out. I'm having to build this rather quickly, but I should be done before tomorrow morning.

Welcome!

Do advise if anything is needed.
That said, if you run as per the character generation thread, and add three magic items, level 6, 7 and 8 or monetary wise the same as these, that would be great.

Just a quick question - does anyone have Training in Heal and Raise Dead, by any chance?

In reply to Jhaartael (msg # 922):

I'm not trained in Heal (not a class skill for swordmages) and I don't have any ritual casting ability.

Hexblade likewise doesn't have such things.

Ditto

It's alright. Just means I need to plan for being the ritualist.

In reply to Jhaartael (msg # 926):

Yay, rituals! They're criminally under used (and under called for in most adventures), but I love them as a concept.

No Heal/Ritual Caster here. (Or did I overlook that on the base warlock?)