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Find Familiar, the Alert feat, and the loss of the fly-by Owl.
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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9245085" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>I don't see this as being a big deal at all. An Owl has Flyby, but it also has an 11 AC and 1 hp. </p><p></p><p>Flyby helps a bit at low level, against most enemies, but at medium levels familiars are so weak, that even with flyby they are rarely going to last more than 1 round against any enemy if you use them in combat. Rogues don't get familiars until level 3 (unless you get a feat at 1st level and take Magic Initiate) so they don't have them in the very early levels where this will make a bigger difference.</p><p></p><p>TBH once you hit 5th level I don't even think an Owl is the best familiar to have, a Bat or Raven is IMO. Both of these have strong options out of combat and situational options in combat that are not likely to draw a lot of attacks.</p><p></p><p>Also Arcane Tricksters can't cast Find Familiar as a ritual, so if you want to reliably have a familiar in the fight you are going to need to burn a lot of your spell slots to do it. This is less of an issue if you have only 1 or 2 fights a day, but if you are on the normal encounter budget you are going to be casting Find Familiar a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9245085, member: 7030563"] I don't see this as being a big deal at all. An Owl has Flyby, but it also has an 11 AC and 1 hp. Flyby helps a bit at low level, against most enemies, but at medium levels familiars are so weak, that even with flyby they are rarely going to last more than 1 round against any enemy if you use them in combat. Rogues don't get familiars until level 3 (unless you get a feat at 1st level and take Magic Initiate) so they don't have them in the very early levels where this will make a bigger difference. TBH once you hit 5th level I don't even think an Owl is the best familiar to have, a Bat or Raven is IMO. Both of these have strong options out of combat and situational options in combat that are not likely to draw a lot of attacks. Also Arcane Tricksters can't cast Find Familiar as a ritual, so if you want to reliably have a familiar in the fight you are going to need to burn a lot of your spell slots to do it. This is less of an issue if you have only 1 or 2 fights a day, but if you are on the normal encounter budget you are going to be casting Find Familiar a lot. [/QUOTE]
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