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Which actually feels closer to the way Weapon Mastery should work by default.

I'm not against the idea as one of many options. I AM against it being far and away the optimised way to play a martial.

Monk + revised Experts. The revised Experts may each have an additional subclass, as well. Also since we know some of the Expert classes are getting weapon mastery, some (very much needed) changes to that system may show up.

What has really become glaring to me about the Fighter's Weapon Expert and Weapon Adept features is that they are not increases in power or capability at all, but merely in convenience. A level 13 Fighter with two properties on a weapon is not doing anything they couldn't do since level 1. They...

Yeah. It's basically the "Champion" of weapon masteries. It's probably meant for those who don't want to do anything but just hit things, yet it's still painfully suboptimal at even that.

You can do it from level 1 with the Golf Bag of Weapons (TM).

Weapon Mastery comes close to hitting the mark ... and then whizzes on past the target by another 400 yards. The optimal way to play any Fighter before level 7, and any other non-Fighter martial ever, will be to carry a golf bag of weapons and switch weapons with each attack for their different...

Fighter gets 3 attacks at that level and can change mastery effect on each one.

Welcome to the previous UA. It only happens at level 20, where, quite frankly, it makes sense for it to happen.

The difference in that case is because there is no drawback whatsoever to taking the rapier or longsword over the shortsword. You literally lose nothing while gaining that +1 damage. Whereas taking a Flex weapon means you're not taking a Push, Slow, Cleave, Puncture, etc. weapon.

That's a difference that round of ... 6 points of damage. With Action Surge. You're really not selling me the value of the Flex property here compared to free pushes, free slows, damage on miss, damage vs. second enemy, etc.

A literally weaker version of the Dueling Fighting Style is amazing?

Crawford is REALLY hyping up that +1 avg. damage over any other sword-and-board user in the game. That doesn't fill me with a whole lotta confidence about this UA.

But still only 1 extra point of damage on average over any other sword-and-board wielder. That is just inadequate compared to push or slow every round.

One extra point of damage on average over a standard sword-and-board wielder compares to push or slow every round, or an extra attack every round, how exactly?

Flex is magnitudes weaker than everything else, and of course the longsword is stuck with that. So the longsword gets done dirty yet again.

I'd go one further than that and just make saving throws universally and fully proficient. And just let the differences in ability scores between classes be the difference in saving throws. Think about it, at level 17+ (+6 proficiency) with a 10 in the stat, you still only succeed 40% of the...

I completed the survey. Marked disapproval on a lot of it. The Druid, I see the direction it's going and it could work, but it needs A LOT of work to get there. And the Paladin is just a weak version of the Cleric now.

Yeah, that was bewildering, to say the least. People used tiny shapes for scouting, and that's it.

So basically you liked the 5e PHB Ranger as it was, and that's why you hate the new Ranger. You'd at least better acknowledge that you are in the very small minority on this.