Kensan Oni (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kensan_oni) wrote,@ 2008-04-30 16:06:00 |
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4E; Multiclassing revealed
You can go check it out at wizards if you really wanna know, but I gotta say something... and it's better to say it here, then, say, in any forum.
A lot of people are complaining that they are giving up a feat and trading out a power for nothing. That's not exactly true. Consider, for a moment, the rogue spending a feat for the Wizard training feat, then spending another feat at 4th level to grab an encounter power, in this case, Web. OMG, Sneak Attack! When the enemy breaks through, the wizard then uses it's Web. OMG, sneak attack!
I hardly think that using the feat to get access to powers that you don't have, even at the cost of one of your own powers, is necessarily weak. What it is, however, is min-maxxie. You have to plan out your power combinations before hand, and be careful how you spend your feats.
As it is rumored you get more feats at the same level as a similar leveled 3E character, I'm not sure if this is a bad trade of. A lot of people think it is, but I can see how it can balance out. The Paladin/Warlock combo seems almost too good, even for sacrificing feats... and in that case, I'd only need to sacrifice one.
I think that it's something that people are going to have to have the books in their hands before they completely judge. It's also one of those things that I suspect it wasn't play tested enough, and they tried to discourage it a little. I think in the end, they're going to fail on that level.
You can go check it out at wizards if you really wanna know, but I gotta say something... and it's better to say it here, then, say, in any forum.
A lot of people are complaining that they are giving up a feat and trading out a power for nothing. That's not exactly true. Consider, for a moment, the rogue spending a feat for the Wizard training feat, then spending another feat at 4th level to grab an encounter power, in this case, Web. OMG, Sneak Attack! When the enemy breaks through, the wizard then uses it's Web. OMG, sneak attack!
I hardly think that using the feat to get access to powers that you don't have, even at the cost of one of your own powers, is necessarily weak. What it is, however, is min-maxxie. You have to plan out your power combinations before hand, and be careful how you spend your feats.
As it is rumored you get more feats at the same level as a similar leveled 3E character, I'm not sure if this is a bad trade of. A lot of people think it is, but I can see how it can balance out. The Paladin/Warlock combo seems almost too good, even for sacrificing feats... and in that case, I'd only need to sacrifice one.
I think that it's something that people are going to have to have the books in their hands before they completely judge. It's also one of those things that I suspect it wasn't play tested enough, and they tried to discourage it a little. I think in the end, they're going to fail on that level.
