SilentWolf
First Post
Explain how your contribution isn't measured in damage? If you're doing very little damage to the dragon your party is fighting, how are you contributing to a victory? Spending your action providing advantage to the fighter so he can do good damage?
The mistake, here, is thinking that the only contribution a character can give is only in combat. With D&D 5e we must abandon the idea that the game experience revolves mainly around Combat. In this edition there are 3 Pillars, not one.
The ways a PC can demonstrate contribution are 3, not one.
The character who reveals to be weak in combat against an enemy, will be the one who will save the harsh warrior when he will risk ending up to be executed by the nobles of a city for having insulted them.
The D&D 5e balance is based on 3 Pillars, not just one.