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A pure swordmage works on an entirely different field than the paladin, as they focus more on the controller aspect of the defender while a paladin is more striker-ish and the cavalier is more leader-ish.
Bern, your arguments are rather weak and unsupported. The swordmage's capability to defend becomes more and more limited as the number of enemies increases, due to requiring an immediate action to activate. They have to make up for that with powers. It's pretty much the same as a paladin in that regard, for there are a good many paladin powers that increase its capability to defend, but the paladin comes out of the box able to apply its punishment to multiple enemies every turn.
Liliane, if you were aiming for versatility with a hybrid, I argue that you are weaker in every way to either a pure wizard or pure swordmage. If "versatility" means being able to react to the situation as it changes on the battlefield, then you already gave that when you took the hybrid aegis, which forces it to remain on the same enemy until it dies. You have effectively cut the effectiveness of powerful feats like Spell Focus and Enlarge Spell in half by forcing yourself to take swordmage powers (though you can help yourself a bit by taking burst/blast Swordmage powers, though I wonder if there are very many good ones).
I could go on, but it's just a problem with hybrids in general. It's never better to be good at three or four things when you can be REALLY good at one thing.
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