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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7722521" data-attributes="member: 6873517">I very much agree. The warlock and sorcerer both illustrate the problems that better playtesting would have found. The warlock's way too tied to the short rest mechanic and has a lot of &quot;feat tax&quot; issues vis a vis invocations as well as a dominant strategy (spamming Eldritch Blast) that makes doing other things as a warlock not very cost-effective. Warlock is one of those classes a lot of people take a few levels in just to get EB and then leave. I can think of many ways to make it better, but they didn't support any of them and I think with more playtesting these issues and potential solutions would be more apparent. On the flip side, the sorcerer basically doesn't benefit from short rests and runs out of sorcery points quickly. The archery based ranger seems OK, but the beastmaster was problematic (never played one, though, so I can't say from experience). WotC just absolutely out of their minds hates pets. So of course they made sure that familiars in the Pact of the Chain weren't that great. At high levels they're not particularly useful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7722521, member: 6873517"] I very much agree. The warlock and sorcerer both illustrate the problems that better playtesting would have found. The warlock's way too tied to the short rest mechanic and has a lot of "feat tax" issues vis a vis invocations as well as a dominant strategy (spamming Eldritch Blast) that makes doing other things as a warlock not very cost-effective. Warlock is one of those classes a lot of people take a few levels in just to get EB and then leave. I can think of many ways to make it better, but they didn't support any of them and I think with more playtesting these issues and potential solutions would be more apparent. On the flip side, the sorcerer basically doesn't benefit from short rests and runs out of sorcery points quickly. The archery based ranger seems OK, but the beastmaster was problematic (never played one, though, so I can't say from experience). WotC just absolutely out of their minds hates pets. So of course they made sure that familiars in the Pact of the Chain weren't that great. At high levels they're not particularly useful. [/QUOTE]

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