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There's plenty of people that want nature mage druid. It was a significant enough responce that JC mentioned it in the video. And nature-mage involves quite a bit of things. Summoning, healer, environmental manipulation to name the most basic. That same video also established that there's...

I don't know about ala carte options or the like, but I know I personally want to focus on a single animal (ie roleplay a werewolf, or fox shifter, orwhatever). And, going by the video, I wasn't alone in that desire. So, while there very much are people that want a swiss-army-knife wildshape...

From what I understand, there's no intention of putting the artificer in the core, so we're probably not going to see a 5eR version for a long time. Sadly.

All new classes beyond the core 12+artificer are going to be repeating the themes of the 13. Hells, sorcerer is practically already defined as "metamagic-based Arcane/Divine/Primal/Psionic full caster." Its all just a question of how we want the mechancis, and thus the playstyle, to be...

I know that the UAs have suggested that Artificer would be an Expert...but I kind of prefer them associated with the Mage group. I prefer the Mage-based epic feats to the Expert ones for Artificer, and I don't like the idea of the Artificer being hedged out of options when they're caster-like...

I think of druids and primal magic in general as "spirit magic" to use a more commonly used phrase. I also think that they're going to merge the Feywild and Shadowfell with the Elemetnal Planes to reform the old octohedron Inner Planes, and these fey, elementals and ghosts will serve as the...

Oh, I've never said its overwhelming at all - indeed, I've said that its unlikely to be overwhelming. I am just saying that acting like everything is naughty word and only people who hate the class will be glad its "butchered" is counter productive. It just makes people defensive and upset. Pact...

If things were as bad as you say, Neonchameleon, then there wouldn't be playtest reports of people enjoying the UA warlock. I understand that your preferred playstyle isnt' around anymore, but its clearly working for others. Especially the bladelock seems to be getting much love in the way of...

Don't forget the mount for the paladin pet! And, yeah, I think its fair to say that WotC hasn't quite grasped how they want gishes to work. Of course, its also fair to say that they haven't figured out quite how martials work either. But I do think they're getting closer with the martials...

Its moving away from what one of the two playstyles I mentioned used to do, possibly others. There's more than one side to this. Flip that around, and... we already have three other Arcane full casters that effectively do the same thing the warlock does, and can generally do it better than the...

One thing I've noticed from reading a lot of the actual play reports and the like. There seems to be two main camps when it comes to playing a warlock. I'm sure there are others, but... People that played warlock as a pseudo-full-caster with lots of short rests are one style. Big booms (or...

Nope. If you go back to my first post on the matter, you'll see that I'm more considering that we should remove magic items entirely from the issue. Not just in a theoretical sense, but a mechanical one as well. Its distorting the matter. You want a thrown weapon because its nearly as strong...

To be fair, my favorite things to do with warlock spell slots were mainly buffs. Armor of Agathys was one of my favorites to have up. Most of the warlock unique spells were level 1 and 2 spells, with Hunger of Hadar and Shadow of Moil (a crappy Fire Shield clone) as the exceptions. If they...

Magic items for spellcasters generally don't improve the damage of their spells. Instead, they tend to come with charges and prepackaged spells, increasing the spells-per-day they can cast. Which... doesn't really affect Eldritch Blast. What generally happens when a warlocks gets, say, a...

Ranger was one of the first classes, and they flat out said they realized that TWFing with Hunter Mark on Ranger was too strong and were planning to bring it down a bit on the video. Druid doesn't really use Hunter Mark, so no reason to consider it there.

It is a nice way to go about it. I've done similar and it works nicely. That said... its worth talking about the fighting styles. Like... its not worth taking Fighting Styles or the Weapon Mastery feats, as they don't raise your casting stat. That said? Adding in a Fighting Style as part...

Hm. While this is true to an extent, would we be saying the same thing if Pact Blade made as many attacks as Eldritch Blast? Like, lets pretend for a moment that Pact Blade gave you a longbow and extra attacks at 11 and 17 instead of Lifedrinker. Same damage, better range. Would people...

They also baked it into Book for free with the level 5 upgrade. Chain got familiar attacks, which seem to be doing damage too. So, its free for book, and a cost for chain if they want to be even better. And blades are off in terms of damage at level 11+ compared to E.B.. But this is...

People did the same thing with the Champion subclass. It was determined to do less damage than a Battlemaster who never got a single short rest. Champion remains the more played choice. People will argue, champion players will still take Flex even if the charop peeps determine it to be trash.

Personal experience. Monsters at any given CR usually have a 3-4 AC range. Couple that with individual PC builds differences, which may or may not include +X weaponry and/or belts of giant strength. Cleave becomes more valuable and Graze far less valuable as your to-hit rises; against solo...