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You made Brilliant Recovery 2W, but it's only a 1W power if unaugmented - I think that's the error.
And I'd probably slip in Sudden Roots somewhere, as OAs (and not Mind Spike) is your main punishment, and Sudden Roots both adds Con as damage and stops melee mobs from reaching your allies.

Impressive - yeah, maybe... But not really any different from what I've been suggesting since the BM came out - just added the numbers here.
And really, it's just damage in a Defenber-Tinbox. I think tactically Ronin will change how encounters are played much more. (If you don't like the low-ish damage there's plenty of way to improve that, if you're willing to dial a bit back on control or status resilience. I'll see when I can write down the variations from my notepad.)

Concerning radiant the trick is that there are so many ways to boost the vulnarebility to ridicolous amounts (Pelor's Sun Blessing, Punishing Radiance, Font of Radiance, Ring of Radiant Storm, ? some Holy Symbol I forgot ? || Pervasive Light).
And if you play a Tiefling (18 Con, 16 Int, 13 Cha, MC Paladin) and go Radiant One you can exploit Frost (full vul + gloves + shard) and 10 radiant vul and 5 fire vul (Hell's Burning Mark) at epic. That would roughly be [8 Con + 5 vul cold + 7 Int Radiant One + 10 vul rad + 5 vul fire + 8 Con boon = 43 base dmg] on BB (and of course more dmg on BR). If I could now find a way to increase my crit-range to trigger consistent Punishing Radiance (more vul and either a free OA or more radiant dmg thanks to Font of Radiance) and get TWO (or rending) that would hit even harder - at the moment I only get it on AP turns... If you keep Hammers and Hammer Rhythm the dmg from Radiant One (plus two vuls) would even trigger on a miss (discussable with Frostcheese, definate once the target is prone), kicking damage even higher and making missing more interesting to ensure getting BR.
At last if you manage 13 Wis and pick the Avenger MC you'll get redicolous novas...

Nice ! That's the over 300 I once estimated full radiant abuse at if you calc with three attacks after the Milestone.
Good call with Battlecrazed - see above for more cheese options. But you definately forgot Headman's Chop... And you could also dual-wield to switch enhancements mid-sequence and trigger TWO. You don't need big Ws (1W on BR, no W on BB).

Can you folks get it past 400 after my sleep (-> now ) and work tomorrow ?

Aug 5, 2010 -- 3:17PM, langeweile wrote:

How's the stance on using consumables on a round to round basis ?
Is it feasable to assume that if I can pay for 100 rounds (10 encounters with 10 rounds each; harder encounter have more rounds but lead to quicker leveling) well enough within my per-level GP, I can use those ?

the discussion on that starts on post 807.  832 is Nelphine's conclusion on the matter.  Please contact him to get his analysis on using ammunition.  If you can afford 160 rounds worth then go for it.  if the consumable scales and you need the higher level one then the ammunition discussion would be helpful.

Oh right - I forgot to post my conclusion on ammunition; when I went through my level by level analysis of using ammuntion I find that for about 3/5 of your life you use ammo with an enhancement bonus of typical -2 (so if you would normally have a +5 weapon, your ammo will be +3 from level 21-23, and +4 from level 24-25).  However this is not a hard and fast rule; and low-mid paragon suffers rather badly from not being able to keep up with ammo costs.

But in order to have ammo of even that calibre, you generally have to leave your armour and neck enhancements one point behind where you would normally be; you have 0 miscellaneous equipment, aside from the basic must-haves from a DPR point of view (you get bracers, gloves and shard; literally, you can't afford anything else), and your neck and armour are completely mundane; you can't afford a level 13 item instead of +3 magic armour, or a level 24 item instead of +5 magic amulet (note: in fact, at level 13 you'll probably have +2 magic armour, and level 24 you'd have a +4 magic amulet due to the reduced enhancement bonus).

All that being said, if you do use ammunition without regard to any other equipment, then your DPR can increase by a very large margin (even with only +5 Frost Bolts, the level 30 character hits 180 DPR; without the ammunition, the level 30 character has 129 DPR.)