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Agreed, their recommendation had basically boiled down to "if you have advantage, always use GWM/SS" so it's nicer to see a bit more detail in your analysis. I do like the way you broke it down to the number you had to roll on the dice, rather than specific AC values. The graphs make it really...

My point was that the errata change isn't going to satisfy the folks who think their Beast Master Ranger should be able to attack and have their companion attack as well. There have been many posts that talk about what a regular non-Ranger animal companion can do, especially if it gets treated...

Sure, if you're using the optional flanking rules then having a safe way to get perma-advantage seems okay (i.e. have the companion just spend the entire fight giving you the flanking bonus and Dodging to stay safe).

I'm sure I'm not the only one disappointed in the Beast Master changes, I think many of us were expecting something stronger than this: Continuing the previously-issued command on subsequent rounds would've been a much more compelling choice, it's unclear if that would've been enough to fix...

Interesting, I had been using this thread as my guide: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?472938-Great-Weapon-Mastery-How-to-5-10-Like-a-Pro The image showing the formula is here, since it normally doesn't load for me: https://i.imgur.com/zEQKq6w.png which just says "Maximum AC =...

The correct PHB errata is here: http://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/PH-Errata.pdf

They usually put them on YouTube, but here's the VOD from Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/305917714

Yeah, this is why I basically always pull up the spell text when I'm the DM, it's easy to forget a word or phrase from a spell that you don't see all the time (or even from ones you do see regularly).

Right, that's why I said "some Fighters" because an archery Fighter will still do more damage than a Ranger. I'm totally okay with that, of course. If I had wanted to simply create the highest-damage archer I could, then my character would've been a Fighter. With the right background and...

So we agree that both the Hunter and Gloom Stalker are fine, then? I’ve always thought it reasonable that melee classes like the Barbarian, Paladin and some Fighters will out-damage ranged classes like Rangers, because there’s a large opportunity cost to fighting in melee. Similarly, there...

There are ranged Barbarian and Paladin builds that do top-tier damage? I wasn't aware of that. Melee Rangers may very well be behind the strongest of the melee classes/subclasses, but that seems to be true of all dual-wielding variants. However, at range, Rangers seem quite solid, even if...

Or, as a Gloom Stalker with Sharpshooter fighting in the dark, you can stand far enough back that you have advantage on every single attack and get 4d8+30+(dex mod * 3) on the first round and then 2d8+20+(dex mod * 2) on all subsequent rounds. That seems pretty solid, especially since you're...

Hex is okay, but it's disgusting that Rangers have to use Hunter's Mark to be competitive? I don't follow. I've never heard Monks classified as the top-tier damage dealers, but sure, everyone knows that Barbarians, Fighters and Paladins do the most single-target damage. They generally also...

Right, we'll just have to wait and see what the errata says, but Jeremy Crawford has indicated that they were able to fix a number of issues with the class/subclass via the errata process and that seems to be the most logical change they could make. Personally, I have never wanted to play a...

If you give the order to "attack those Goblins over there", then yeah, a reasonable interpretation would be that the companion attacks them all until they are dead. If one Goblin dies, then it just moves to the next one, probably just picking the closest one. This seems very reasonable...

Actually, there's at least one Sage Advice section on Dragon Talk where he specifically talks about the Beast Master as the real problem that needs to be fixed. He said they don't need to toss the PHB Ranger and redesign it from scratch if the only real problem is with the Beast Master. The...

Is it, though? What if their intent all along was that the Beast Master's companion would act intelligently, where the Ranger would use their action to give the order to attack in the first round, and then subsequent rounds would be able to attack alongside their companion (i.e. it kept...

Jeremy Crawford said that they have some Hunter changes/fixes coming via the new errata that solve some of the problems they were attempting to address with the UA Revised Ranger. We'll see once they actually make those errata public, but as others have pointed out, I think there's a very...

I've seen plenty of arguments that suggest all classes compare poorly to Paladins, though. All non-Fighter classes cap at two attacks per round, so it's not surprising that Rangers only get 2 as well. I think it's worth considering the Ranger additions from XGtE, which is WOTC's first official...

Man, this thread has been moving fast lately. I think it's worth remembering some details from the recent Dragon Talk Q&A from Jeremy Crawford: - The last survey was in 2015 and there are millions and millions of new players. They are going to do another survey to gauge the current...