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As with many unbalanced game mechanics DMs can work around the issues, but that doesn't change the fact that there is an inherent flaw in the design. The battlerager was litteraly immune to minions, but also effectively to many regular melee monsters. A damage reduction of 5 melee is very powerful at lower levels. What is worse, it makes the battlerager even less of an enticing target then regular defenders, and hence automatically reduces the effectiveness as one. Now, the downside of the change is that now the bonus for wearing chain becomes a lot less enticing since chances are a lot lower you have temps when you start the round. Still, I don't think that is such a bad thing, but like I said, I never liked the battlerager (nor the tempest fighter).

The rain of blows changes actually have little to do with epic avengers. They have to do with fighters dealing more damage in 1 attack then strikers and concequentially dominating every single fight. The removed the Str modifier from damage, which helps, but the problem also comes from items like bloodclaw enchantment and iron armbands and those have not yet been changed. Still, any change is better then none

You are right about the Tempus feat though, the main problem rises from all the things that trigger on a critical and not just the extra damage. So they did solve that issue. The downside is that the feat is less useful at low levels, but you can always wait a few levels to take it. It is still one of the best Divine Channel feats available.