If your going to assume a prone target stands+attack... Then grab a tripple headed flail for the swordmage. The ripose will activate the next turn. So it's up to 4x damage.
Alternitively... half-elf ret-venger. Borrowed confidence need not apply, but you also loose shocking flame.
If you equip your Swordmage with a flail you are of course abandoning any expertise bonus to his implement attacks, Swordmage Warding, etc. There would no longer be even the illusion of having any tricks other than Booming Blade.
If you hybrid, go non-Human, or worst of all both, your feat deficit will be sharply felt all the way into epic.
You'll need an off-hand impliment for DIS anyways... So +4 flail, +3 dagger.... hardly perfect (no lightblade expertise), but still funtional.
Also, i didn't say anything about hybrids... i just said half-elf retvenger. Dillitante booming blade. Int is a secondary already. And painful oath will add more then enough back, as well as the radiant keyword.
To bad i can't squeeze reincarnate champion in there... still want shocking flame (thunder, lighting, cold, fire, radiant, necrotic .
F-111 Interdictor Long (200+ squares) distance ally teleporter. With some warlord stuff. Broken in a plot way, not a power way. Thought Switch Higher level build that grants upto 14 attacks on turn 1. If your allies play along, it's broken. Elven Critters Crit op with crit generation. 5 of these will end anything. Broken. King Fisher Does an excellent job at keeping an enemy disabled in a few ways. Strong. Boominator Fun catch-22 booming blade build with either strong or completely broken damage depending on your reading. Very Distracting Warlock Lot's of dazing and major penalties to hit. Overpowered. Pocket Protector Pixie Stealth Knight. Maximizing the defender's aura by being in an ally's/enemy's square. Yakuza NinjIntimiAdin: Perma-stealth Striker that offers a little protection for ally's, and can intimidate bloodied enemies. Very Strong. Chargeburgler with cheese Ranged attacks at the end of a charge along with perma-stealth. Solid, could be overpowered if tweaked. Void Defender Defends giving a penalty to hit anyone but him, then removing himself from play. Can get somewhat broken in epic. Scry and Die Attacking from around corners, while staying hidden. Moderate to broken, depending on the situation. Skimisher Fly in, attack, and fly away. Also prevents enemies from coming close. Moderate to Broken depending on the enemy, but shouldn't make the game un-fun, as the rest of your team is at risk, and you have enough weaknesses. Indestructible Simply won't die, even if you sleep though combat. Sir Robin (Bravely Charge Away) He automatically slows and pushes an enemy (5 squares), while charging away. Hard to rate it's power level, since it's terrain dependent. Death's Gatekeeper A fun twist on a healic, making your party "unkillable". Overpowered to Broken, but shouldn't actually make the game un-fun, just TPK proof. Death's Gatekeeper mk2, (Stealth Edition) Make your party "unkillable", and you hidden, while doing solid damage. Stronger then the above, but also easier for a DM to shut down. Broken, until your DM get's enough of it. Domination and Death Dominate everything then kill them quickly. Only works @ 30, but is broken multiple ways. Battlemind Mc Prone-Daze Protecting your allies by keeping enemies away. Quite powerful. The Retaliator Getting hit deals more damage to the enemy then you receive yourself, and you can take plenty of hits. Heavy item dependency, Broken. Dead Kobold Transit Teleports 98 squares a turn, and can bring someone along for the ride. Not fully built, so i can't judge the power Psilent Guardian Protect your allies, while being invisible. Overpowered, possibly broken Unnamed Avenger|Runepriest/Hammer of Vengance Do lot's of damage while boosting your teams. Strong to slightly overpowered. Charedent BarrageA charging ardent. Fine in a normal team, overpowered if there are 2 together, and easily broken in teams of 5. Super Knight A tough, sticky, high damage knight. Strong. Super Duper Knight Basically the same as super knight, only far more broken. Mora, the unkillable avenger Solid damage, while being neigh indestuctable. Overpowered, but not broken. Swordburst Maximus At-Will Close Burst 3 that slide and prones. Protects allies with off actions. Strong, possibly over powered with the right party.
F-111 Interdictor Long (200+ squares) distance ally teleporter. With some warlord stuff. Broken in a plot way, not a power way. Thought Switch Higher level build that grants upto 14 attacks on turn 1. If your allies play along, it's broken. Elven Critters Crit op with crit generation. 5 of these will end anything. Broken. King Fisher Does an excellent job at keeping an enemy disabled in a few ways. Strong. Boominator Fun catch-22 booming blade build with either strong or completely broken damage depending on your reading. Very Distracting Warlock Lot's of dazing and major penalties to hit. Overpowered. Pocket Protector Pixie Stealth Knight. Maximizing the defender's aura by being in an ally's/enemy's square. Yakuza NinjIntimiAdin: Perma-stealth Striker that offers a little protection for ally's, and can intimidate bloodied enemies. Very Strong. Chargeburgler with cheese Ranged attacks at the end of a charge along with perma-stealth. Solid, could be overpowered if tweaked. Void Defender Defends giving a penalty to hit anyone but him, then removing himself from play. Can get somewhat broken in epic. Scry and Die Attacking from around corners, while staying hidden. Moderate to broken, depending on the situation. Skimisher Fly in, attack, and fly away. Also prevents enemies from coming close. Moderate to Broken depending on the enemy, but shouldn't make the game un-fun, as the rest of your team is at risk, and you have enough weaknesses. Indestructible Simply won't die, even if you sleep though combat. Sir Robin (Bravely Charge Away) He automatically slows and pushes an enemy (5 squares), while charging away. Hard to rate it's power level, since it's terrain dependent. Death's Gatekeeper A fun twist on a healic, making your party "unkillable". Overpowered to Broken, but shouldn't actually make the game un-fun, just TPK proof. Death's Gatekeeper mk2, (Stealth Edition) Make your party "unkillable", and you hidden, while doing solid damage. Stronger then the above, but also easier for a DM to shut down. Broken, until your DM get's enough of it. Domination and Death Dominate everything then kill them quickly. Only works @ 30, but is broken multiple ways. Battlemind Mc Prone-Daze Protecting your allies by keeping enemies away. Quite powerful. The Retaliator Getting hit deals more damage to the enemy then you receive yourself, and you can take plenty of hits. Heavy item dependency, Broken. Dead Kobold Transit Teleports 98 squares a turn, and can bring someone along for the ride. Not fully built, so i can't judge the power Psilent Guardian Protect your allies, while being invisible. Overpowered, possibly broken Unnamed Avenger|Runepriest/Hammer of Vengance Do lot's of damage while boosting your teams. Strong to slightly overpowered. Charedent BarrageA charging ardent. Fine in a normal team, overpowered if there are 2 together, and easily broken in teams of 5. Super Knight A tough, sticky, high damage knight. Strong. Super Duper Knight Basically the same as super knight, only far more broken. Mora, the unkillable avenger Solid damage, while being neigh indestuctable. Overpowered, but not broken. Swordburst Maximus At-Will Close Burst 3 that slide and prones. Protects allies with off actions. Strong, possibly over powered with the right party.
Dominate is hands-down the best status effect in the game (unless you count "dead")
Unconscious is pretty darn fun too. But otherwise, yes, I agree.
Dominate is great if you have good MBA people on your team.
Dominate is pretty much akin to Flame Spiral, while you will trigger less damage off it (Not an AoE, and statistically, fewer PCs have good MBAs than have Forced Movement) but it's practically guaranteed to deny a turn (dominate immunity doesn't really exist in heroic, or on non-solo's in general) unlike Flame Spiral, where if the creature goes next or your allies cannot assist, isn't killing anything that wasn't almost dead already.
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Just barely qualifies, maybe, but the Warlord2 "your friend moves his speed" has saved more than a few friends of my son's character (get bloodied fighter away from invisible you-can't-heal baddy). Scenario-changing if the right person ends in the right spot (ambushed! - put the Defender in between Team Monster and Team Hero)(give the Wizard line-of-sight to a lurking enemy).
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Compared to Tactical Orders and Reorient the Axis, Knight's Move is nothing, yes. Its main use is for granting extra Minor actions, not moves. At that, it certainly excels.
Mountain Cleave Rule: You can have any sort of fun, including broken, silly fun, so long as I get to have that fun too (e. g., if you can warp reality with your spells, I can cleave mountains with my blade).
Reorient the Axis can't make your Rogue take his Low Slash.
Edit: Beaten to it by Armisael! I wouldn't have it any other way.
Knight's Move is a subtly different power that fills a unique niche - action economy assistance for your striker. It's also first in class, being an enabling power that can be gotten several levels ahead of any other powerful enabling powers, which deserves a mention.
Frankly, I'd rather see this guide organized by grouping powers categorically by function, then determining if its 'first in class', as that directly correlates to how good it actually is. Charm Beast and Touch of Command are key powers, for example, because they're first in class as encounter dominates. Silent Malediction is first in class for save-ends-stunning (or really just stunning in general).
Other classes of powers we may identify include "Immediate Retaliation" (Vengeance is Mine, Fox's Cunning, Delban's Deadly Attention, Curtain of Steel) and "Immediate Negation" (Powerful Warning, Disruptive Strike).
Dominate is hands-down the best status effect in the game (unless you count "dead")
Unconscious is pretty darn fun too. But otherwise, yes, I agree.
Dominate is great if you have good MBA people on your team.
Dominate is pretty much akin to Flame Spiral, while you will trigger less damage off it (Not an AoE, and statistically, fewer PCs have good MBAs than have Forced Movement) but it's practically guaranteed to deny a turn (dominate immunity doesn't really exist in heroic, or on non-solo's in general) unlike Flame Spiral, where if the creature goes next or your allies cannot assist, isn't killing anything that wasn't almost dead already.
Touch of Command really deserves some more face time in this thread too. It lacks the miss effect that Charm Beast has, but as a trade off, it's off-turn, which both retains your standard action and can very easily net you two turns of enemy domination. Your team doesn't have strong MBA's? Well, if two laps through team PC won't do the trick, just have him run away for two turns. He'll need two turns of running to get back, at which point he's going to be awful lonley, and may consider turning around and running away again, this time of his own free will.
And it's an encounter power, available at lvl 7. It's powerful, it will change every encounter it's used in, and it's unique.
Compared to Tactical Orders and Reorient the Axis, Knight's Move is nothing, yes. Its main use is for granting extra Minor actions, not moves. At that, it certainly excels.
So the consensus is that you can use Knight's Move and downgrade the move to a minor and spend that as your free action?
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