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Anyone care to share what exactly was fubarred about the original version of this article.  Since there’s virtually nothing there but powers I can only assume the original powers sucked ass?

But at least they noted it, they admitted it and they attempted to fix it.  I’m not sure it’s ‘fixed’ as well as it could be, see my comments below the quote but at least they made an effort right? It’s not often you’ll find someone that comes out and say, “Okay you got us.  We pushed out some crap and we’re sorry.  Here’s something that we spent some time on instead.”  Kudos to them.

Now if they could just publically admit their forums suck as well and fix those.

Quoted Text Copyright Wizards of the Coast 2009- re-posted here without permission -

Today, we posted a new version of the Class Acts: Ranger article that originally appeared on July 13, 2009.

To put it bluntly, the previous version of the article was of unacceptable quality. You, the readers, correctly pointed that out and we agreed. Hence, these revisions.

We apologize for this lapse in quality.

Though we believe that this particular article is an isolated failure in our mission to provide D&D Insiders with high-quality, exciting content every month, we still take this failure very seriously.

We’re confident that the new version of the article adheres to our (and your) high standards for all published game material — whether that material comes to you on paper or via the digital format.

We’re also reviewing our process for designing, developing, and editing Insider content to identify places where additional time or training are required to avoid such errors in the future.

We appreciate the trust that you place in us, and we’ll strive to continue to justify that trust.

Thank you, and good gaming

I’m looking at it, the powers that is, and they’re still not… quite up to what I’d call good?  Example, the level 1 exploit, the wording in the last sentence should read, IMO, “If both attacks hit the second slide up to 3 squares”. Â  It’s a little bit of a silly power.  The power states you have to slide the creature adjacent to you.  So if you hit twice you essentially spin in place 180 degrees with your target impaled on your blades, you have to based on the original wording, slide the creature 4 squares.  No options, what if you just want to use the power to hit your target twice WITHOUT sliding him?  You can’t by RAW.

The level 7 attack, the last line IMO should read “If both attacks hit, the extra damage is equal to 2+ your wisdom modifier.”  Otherwise if you don’t have a wisdom modifier you’re actually hitting for less damage then if you hit with only one attack. Â  At the very least it should say “…is equal to 1+your wisdom modifier (minimum of 2)”. Â  It’s phraseology and terminology like this that cause all those RAW versus RAI issues.

The artwork is less than stellar.  It’s not horrible but the way the assumed ranger is holding those axes it’s like he’s hitting people with the flat of the blade, not the edges.