I'll start off: I love the Runepriest. I think, as far and newer classes go, I thin it has the best realized mechanics I've seen in quite a while. On the othe rhand they may be a little "complicated to play." by that I mean there's a lot of things to remember, or more precisely, to remind others about. Between the various runic possibilities in powers as well as yur rune state all providing bennies to your comrades, I see a lot of "don't forget you have X, Y, or Z" statements in the future. However, it's nice ot have a nother front line leaer who can dish it out as well as his comrades (not as much as a striker, but still good).
I'm enjoying my ardent in my home game, but I'm a little worried about my lack of ranged options on him. Anyone seen a way to get a decent ranged option on them?
Multiclassing, probably. The Warlock, Sorcerer, and Bard all have some nice ranged attacks that key off of Charisma.
Yeah I thought about that, I'm multiclass shaman for the extra healing, there are 6 of us in the group and I'm the only leader.
The work with that. Shamans have some ranged options themselves, so you could do worse than pick up a few ranged Shaman powers.
I'd like to try one of the classes with power-point pools (psion, ardent, battlemind). I was originally leaning towards psion, but I've already got a controller with a wizard. And, I'm under an informal ban from making any more leaders (of my five LFR PCs, three are leaders). That may leave me with a battlemind.
Yeah, I'm looking at some kind of hybrid controller/striker for similar reasons. Too many defenders and leaders for me at the moment...
Just to multiclass.
On the same note, I am thoroughly disappointed by the psionic classes. I'll probably never play a psion, because I expect every psion I ever see to use nothing but Dishearten, Mind Thrust, and ocasionally Betrayal--and I can't see any way to make a psion any other way that would compare. The ardent suffers from the same problem, though to a lesser extent. I'm almost tempted to make a Battlemind just because they're so terrible I doubt I'll ever see one... but I love hybrids too much, and psionic classes and hybrids don't mix (you have to take the high-level powers to get the PP).
I do really like the monk and runepriest, and the only reason I won't play them is I expect everyone else to (I had 2 monks at one table last week). The seeker is better than it looks: one of the people I play with regularly uses a preview version of one to great effect (to the point where I hate to see that character when I DM). Biting Swarm (with a Duelist's Bow, ugh) and Ensnaring Shot make my monsters' lives miserable.
Psionic Classes: The psionic power source isn't very interesting to me and the power point system is horribly implemented.
Seekers: They seem to be utterly devoid of interesting flavor.
Runepriests: They are too good. I have a hard time being interested in anything that instantly claims a spot on CharOp page one.
New Races: They don't interest me much. Fey-Plant - no way. Gith (Char-Op posterchild) - no thanks. Shardmind - possibly.
Minotaur: The rewrite was alright but it would have been nice for them to actually fix Goring Charge rather than only addressing half of the problem.
Hybrid rules: We already know how I feel about these.
Feats: There are a few interesting new feats and more than a few broken ones. Unfortunately it's hard to think about 'interesting' feats when there are so many feat taxes these days. Superior Implement Proficiency I'm looking at you.
Empowered Crit and Accurate keywords are the only ones that make any difference.
In classes, I simply like my classics. The rogue is a literary archetype, the battlemind is not.
Thus, they gave casters surperior implements. I dont see the issue.
Superior Implement blows chunks. That's one huge feat tax. I'd only take it if I had a useless feat slot at paragon that's a place holder for an epic feat.
Empowered Crit and Accurate keywords are the only ones that make any difference.
My wizard just hit 8th and I don't really have any other good feats to take at this level. So I'm taking SIP for the crystal Orb since most of his attacks target will and are psychic damage.
Superior Implement blows chunks. That's one huge feat tax. I'd only take it if I had a useless feat slot at paragon that's a place holder for an epic feat.
Wait, you say it is a feat tax, but at the same time you say that you don't feel it is worth a feat? You do realize that most people consider something a feat tax if the feat is much better than any other feat and that you will take it as soon as its available? Or am I misunderstanding your statement?
I personally kinda like the Telekenetic Psion... I'm still trying to figure out how to make a Jedi with it... because, let's face it, once you have something with telekenisis, you gotta figure out how to make a Jedi with it... It might end up being the first controller that I actually play.
Hybrid Swordmage? Maybe with the Swordmage PP that uses wis...wandering something.
On Psionics: If once again the Power Point system was screwed up, i'm going to shake my head and just look at Wizards and ask why?
On Psionics: If once again the Power Point system was screwed up, i'm going to shake my head and just look at Wizards and ask why?
If you have a DDI subscription, you can see how it works already, as one build of the Psion is in there.
In short:
- You don't get any encounter powers; you simply get more at-will powers. Every time you hit a level at which a "normal" class would get a new encounter power, you instead get a new at-will power.
- All at-will powers have three "settings":
--- A basic (unaugmented) effect
--- A somewhat stronger effect, which is achieved by spending a power point (2 power points for the very high level powers)
--- A considerably stronger effect, which is achieved by spending 2 power points (4 or 6 power points for the very high level powers). This version is usually roughly equivalent in power to an encounter power.
In addition, some psionically-oriented magic items have powers which can only be activated by spending power points.
You start out with 2 power points. You gain additional power points every time you hit a level at which you gain a new at-will power (plus at 21st level). Power points recharge with a short or extended rest.