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The DDI Compendium can give you a comprehensive list. Even if you don't have a D&D Insider account, the Online Compendium will let you do a category search for Items (Alchemical Item). It won't show you the mechanical information unless you have an account, but will tell you the name/level/cost/rarity of each item and its publication source. There are ...

If the warlock has to keep his distance from an attacker, I would be happy to say that a Guardian could bond him. The seeming intent of the theme is to improve the capabilities of defenders to protect one other party member. Since this is 4E, every PC is supposed to be good at combat. There's just some that fight up close and some that fight at range. ...

A quick troll through the Compendium shows there are a variety of sources for the currently 79 Alchemical Items. The main ones are the Adventurer's Vault, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium and the Eberron Player's Guide. There are also a few items in the Dungeon Survival Guide, and a number in various Dungeon and Dragon issues.

First, consider that from an optimization standpoint Guardian is considered a very strong (sky blue, if you're familiar with CharOp ratings) theme for melee characters simply for its level 1 power; anything more than that is just icing on the cake. Next, consider the statement you’re supposed to protect people who don’t fight as well as you do. If the ...

Playing or multiclassing as a Wizard may be your only way. "Prerequisite: Wizard" doesn't get much clearer, or leave much wiggle room for those without the Wizard class (or multi-class), even if they can use a spellbook. Ignoring the Wizard prerequisite and solely paying attention to the "You must be able to prepare spells from a spellbook" prerequisite, ...

The rules seem pretty clear: the first says you cannot bond someone with greater melee skill, but the latter says you should not bond someone who fights better than you. In any event, certainly seems sensible for a defensive character to protect a squishy ranged character. In general, every player character should be reasonably good at fighting, since ...