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I had to think about this for a long time before choosing a side. One argument more than any stands out to me. As this proposal stands, a character retains roughly the same power level when using this option, but is a lower level. That means that two characters of equal level are not roughly...

Again, I am only guessing, but I suspect part of it has to do with helping staff scale. As of right now, there is no way for plot teams to even estimate how many magic items a character might have, and as you probably understand, number of magic items significantly affects combat effectiveness...

Even on weekends that focus hard on a specific effect or effect group, I've never known a plot team that didn't throw in a little diversity at various points, usually even a full wave battle that skews towards a different set of effects / groups. So, going all-in on one effect group is kind of...

That doesn't noticeably change my analysis of how quickly a scholar falls compared to a fighter (though I do appreciate the updated information about how the rules work). That just means that a character with 30 formal levels (a standard that feels about right from what I have seen) has two...

I can't answer this for certain, but I have a guess. I suspect the reason is because the basic idea is that the scholar classes are the classes that are more likely to be spending XP in order to actually make magic items in the first place. It only seems fair that the class that actually...

Point agreed to on the cost for spells/formals not mattering (I misunderstood that part), but that was the lesser point by a far margin. The nearly 50 charges lost to fighter skills + paragon path is far from non-trivial. And my assertion still stands. Scholar level of wand damage is...

True. However, every wand charge you use to repair armor is one fewer you have to deal damage and you are already missing 140 XP worth of charges (approximately 50) and also have fewer charges because scholars pay less for both spell slots and formal. Any way you cut it, Steelsoul represents...

I think you might have missed something really important that I talked about in my initial post. That +3 profs = +3 wand damage stops working the moment you suffer a single point of damage (specifically, armor damage). It is literally a front-loaded, alpha strike ability. Unless your opponent...

I have answered this question time and time again, but I will answer it one more time, so that it is 100% clear. Columns are a limited resource. They run out. I have used an entire 5 column in a single battle. I have seen 8 column casters walk into a module with almost no spent spells and...

I'm pretty sure I said it earlier in this thread (though it may have been another), templars translate much better to the tank role in our game than fighters. Fighters translate better to DPS. Steelsoul is just the natural extension of that, but that doesn't negate fighters in any meaningful...

You have apparently never been hit with binding, paralysis, or a prison while running full tilt. :D -MS

You are right. I didn't consider the 72nd level scholar with build spent exclusively on spell slots in order to have a 29 column. Of course, the reason I didn't consider it is because after 24 years of game, this character doesn't exist. I believe the highest level character in the game is...

Wands are items that can be both disarmed and shattered. -MS

I played an earth templar NPC for about a decade. It was an important town NPC that I played for full weekends at various points (mid 20s level), so I think I have a pretty good grasp of the class even if I never did PC it. -MS

I'm certainly not giving you any flak on this one. I misread it (or maybe just bandwagoned with other people's interpretations too quickly) for a long time, too. It was only when I saw it again in this thread that my linguistics degree kicked in and I went HEEEEEEEEY. -MS

I think you and many others (including me at first) have misread this rule. Let me quote the key line: "Under the Flurry rule, a player should not direct more than three consecutive attacks (weapon strikes and/or packet attacks in any combination) against a single target before pausing to let...

Honestly, I feel like you didn't read my post at all, except for the last few lines. I literally talk about HM cloaks and banes throughout the second paragraph. I specifically mention the rate at which you can get them and the limitations of them. I didn't dismiss their value. I weighed it...

One of the points I keep seeing people make is that fighters fall to a double tap or triple tap of spells / gasses. This isn't universally true for a couple reasons (including racial abilities), but for now lets pretend we have a human fighter to take that out of the equation. Sure, even if...

The former comes in limited quantity, while the latter is unlimited. The former is a lower number than the latter (at a roughly equal level for a scholar and a fighter). The former takes a longer time to deliver than the latter (both due to verbal length and due to delivery motion). There are a...

Infinite use vs. finite use is the answer that comes to mind. Now, you could be asking about wands vs. profs/BS, which is a more interesting question. Wands are also finite use (though in some ways less noticeably than spells, despite being the exact same number). And from the perspective of...