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So, periodically I get the kick to build and play a battlemind, but I usually hit a wall when I try getting it to that real "kickass" feel - when a build comes together and you know it's doing well.  My builds for battleminds have always felt a little haphazard, of just picking decent-ish powers and hoping they work out, but always having weaknesses (crappy MBA, or paying my taxes, to use an example).  When going through the handbooks the builds there always seem to come together at much higher levels, whereas I'm looking for things more in the heroic range, preferably starting at 1.

I'm open to hybrids of various sort, but the goal is a defender.  Most recently I've started looking at hybrid swordmage and hybrid paladin, and I find those somewhat intriguing though there's some feat tax issues with the swordmage especially.  One thing I was wondering was whether Harrying Step is even possible to get on a hybrid battlemind - it appears no?  Also, if I do hybrid with another defender, is it still worth picking blurred step as opposed to mind spike?  Mind spike is generally considered junk, but is there any point to taking it at all?

Well, I've been lurking/posting for 2 years+ now and I've never seen it done.  To be fair though, most defenders are pretty generic in heroic.

And the fact that they have no MBA without taking melee training or racial feats is absolutely asinine.  Im not sure what they were thinking when they wrote it.