Essentialized

1. What is it?
2. Phase 1
   1. Powers
   2. Classes
3. Phase 2

What is it?

The Essentials line introduced a new way of creating and playing martial characters. Rather than choosing a standard action attack, these classes used minor action stances to change the effects of their melee basic attacks. Stances combined with weapon feats could produce a wide range of effects, giving the class in effect far more at-will attacks than its original 4th edition counterpart. In addition, each class received a single encounter power which it was able to use multiple times per encounter rather than multiple encounter powers. In some cases those powers augmented existing attacks, and thus the character had little need for a variety of encounter powers that amounted to slight improvements over