Expertise Feats
While I can hardly complain about a free bonus, I'm curiouse whats the purpose behind it?
Expertise Feats
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I must say i'm curious as well. The expertise feats were said to be a quick fix to monsters defenses scaling improperly at higher levels. But it wasn't too much of an issue that it had to be added w/o a feat. Oh well, frees up a free slot for me.
I read some of the boards online and the problem was detailed very nicely. Basically it was a description of the need for the feats in the first place. I didn't see it before because I was only looking on one end, the monsters. They scale pretty evenly throughout the 30 levels. Unfortunately the characters begin to loose the balance as the levels go into Paragon and especially in Epic levels. I believe the feats were quite powerful to be available so early to characters, and I especially agree that a character shouldn't have to take 1 (or 2 feats if using both weapon and implement powers) to fix something that should have been calculated in the game in the first place. Instead of forcing characters to get these feats, which just about EVERY character would have to do even if they were min/maxed, I decided to eliminate the feats and give a static bonus across the board at 5th, 15th, and 25th level.
It was explained that optimized characters would have a serious flaw especially in the epic tier. Characters that are NOT optimized would have a very hard time hitting monsters in the later levels, Soldiers being nearly impervious to these characters (that is going a bit far but you get the idea).
Ah. I haven't read anything on these but basically you're saying these are "must have" feats for the upper tiers? I agree that if a feat is necessary to the point that anyone who doesn't take it is penalized than it should be part of the basic character. I hadn't seen the issue because I haven't looked seriously at the numbers beyond the heroic tier (as DM or player).
From the calculations I saw put on the forums at WotC, the players lose 4 points (or 20%) to their to hit between Level 1 character vs. Level 1 monster and Level 30 character vs. Level 30 monster.
I need more information than that. I don't know what feats those are. If you know which magazine post that so I can check it out. Please make this a normal thing so I know what you are talking about and so I can read the article you are referring to.
scratch that its basically a swordmage/bard feat. It is an implement expertise that lets the expertise count for both implement and weapon attacks. With the way you're doing it, that will already happen. It's a ph3 feat… and the character builder says dragon 375, but doesn't describe it very well and i found it no where in that magazine. I ended up finding it on the compendium.
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