I’ve started doing some more indepth looking at the numbers for the classes with a primary eye toward balancing the Bard class I mentioned earlier. I’ve run some preliminary numbers on the official classes and just flat out there can be about a 10-15% difference in the number of total powers. For instance one class might have 30 encounters and 40 dailies and another might be vice versa. Given the power difference between encounters and dailies a class with 25% more dailies seems like it might be a little more powerful?
I was also looking at the Warlord and that class I think is deceptively low powered but almost every power grants bonues to the allies and grants the allies free attacks. So essentially most of the warlords powers grants two or more attacks, usually with bonuses. That can be pretty significant compared to the others.
I’m going to lean or taint the bard class towards more of a diplomat / spy / epic storyteller thing. They can be the village storyteller or the king’s entertainer or Bond, James Bond, spy extraordinare.
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Saric
June 20, 2008 at 7:39 pm (UTC -5)
You could easily do that by making either another build option, or you could make some new powers dedicated to that archtype. A paragon path could work as well.
Despite the fact that the class has a little more options available for choosing, it still has to pick up the same number of utilitiy/daily/encounter powers just like everyone else. I didn’t want to be absolutely constrained in the class design, and some powers just stuck along for the ride.