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Originally Posted by The Illustrious Number 6
At first I was very sceptical about the Expertise feats, as bonuses to attack are highly unbalancing. However, someone pointed out to me that in 4E AC typically goes up faster than attack bonus, which means that as the levels go up, you start missing more and more often. Since longer combats and wasted dailies are no fun, I consider this to be a reasonable fix. I would have prefered a simple +1 at paragon and epic tiers though, as "mandatory" feats aren't fun either.
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are not just a troll.
If WotC found out the game needs a universal bump to attacks, this does not just affect those gamers who buy PHB2, but all customers of the PHB1. The only reasonable place to put these feats is thus the errata.
(If they also want to put them on paper, and thus in PHB2, that's fine. But the current solution forces us customers to pay for errata which is completely unacceptable.)
This without even going into the controversy of the "feat tax" nature of their fix.
And if they
didn't intend this to be an universal bump - that is, if they don't expect every math-savvy gamer to take them - the design & development article explaining the thinking behind these feats is way overdue...