Level Up (A5E) Is the Oracle weak?

Garmel · Nov 8, 2021

Their abilities are powerful but being able to use them only once day is very limiting.

niklinna · Nov 8, 2021

Only Unfickle Fate and Potent Premonitions are once per day. The others use Channel Divinity.

Garmel · Nov 8, 2021

Even then it still doesn't seem equal to the other cleric archetypes.

dave2008 · Nov 8, 2021

Garmel said:
Even then it still doesn't seem equal to the other cleric archetypes.

I know they did a lot of playtesting and math to balance these out (there was a post on the math many months ago), so while it may not "seem" balanced to you, I'm pretty sure it works with the math and system assumptions, though I could be wrong.

King Brad · Nov 10, 2021

I'm not sure how they were qualifying the math, but 1 free reroll on someone you have to choose beforehand per day and some situational scrying abilities do not hold a candle to the healers constant usefulness. I love the concept of the Oracle, but there is no way they are on par. Especially considering that the 6th level feature makes the 2nd level feature useless. It would make more sense to just do away with the current 2nd level feature and give it something else in its stead that's not another drain on its CD.