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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 9401354" data-attributes="member: 3586">The balancing is between classes and between abilities in classes, not strictly related to raw power.If you have an ability on your character sheet you never use, then it needs work. For instance, the Battlemaster had an ability to spend 1 minute learning two facts about another creature... whether they had a superior or inferior Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Armor Class, Current Hit Points, Total class levels or Fighter class levels.I have run a lot of Battle Masters over the years. I've never seen the ability used. (If the Battle Master remembered, it wasn't going to give them useful information. How many monsters have class levels? Is knowing a monster has more than 100 hp useful?)So for that type of ability, you need to rework it or do something to make it useful. You have other abilities that aren't that egregious, but you still get the change to put them more on your preferred power level when you do this revision.(And yes, a few abilities do get toned down. We have seen this with the revision - see the paladin smite ability).Then there's balancing between classes. When you see a class doing its thing, and you realise that another class does that thing better, then it's time for rebalancing. And that's another factor at work.Whether their changes are good ones, that we have to wait and see. Cheers,Merric</blockquote>