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4th level Bladesinger with same AC as Tarrasque
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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8095825" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>And you've hit the nail on the head for Bladesingers. They are <em>flexible</em>. Need a tank? They can burn their resources to do that. Need a blaster? They can burn their resources to do that. Need a controller? They can burn their resources to do that. Bladesingers are great at being flexible, but it's at the cost of not doing one of those other things. Also, their ability to do these things effectively and flexibly diminishes over time -- around mid Tier II the tank shtick starts to fall off -- Bladesingers are iffy as tanks in Tier III. In Tier III, the Fighter likely has magical armor and shield and lots more hitpoints (due to hitdie and CON priority) and so will be rocking the Bladesinger's peak ACs all the time with the "meat" to back that up. The Bladesinger could focus on acquiring magic items to improve tankiness, but that comes at the cost of acquiring items to improve the other roles -- they're losing flexibility.</p><p></p><p>The real thing about Bladesingers is that they are terrific melee combatants in Tier I and II, and less good normal Wizards from Tier III on because they can't keep up in the melee and the lack the specialization in magics that other subclasses of Wizard have. They remain flexible, though, because they can still brave the melee line when other wizards cannot, but the risks are a lot higher.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8095825, member: 16814"] And you've hit the nail on the head for Bladesingers. They are [I]flexible[/I]. Need a tank? They can burn their resources to do that. Need a blaster? They can burn their resources to do that. Need a controller? They can burn their resources to do that. Bladesingers are great at being flexible, but it's at the cost of not doing one of those other things. Also, their ability to do these things effectively and flexibly diminishes over time -- around mid Tier II the tank shtick starts to fall off -- Bladesingers are iffy as tanks in Tier III. In Tier III, the Fighter likely has magical armor and shield and lots more hitpoints (due to hitdie and CON priority) and so will be rocking the Bladesinger's peak ACs all the time with the "meat" to back that up. The Bladesinger could focus on acquiring magic items to improve tankiness, but that comes at the cost of acquiring items to improve the other roles -- they're losing flexibility. The real thing about Bladesingers is that they are terrific melee combatants in Tier I and II, and less good normal Wizards from Tier III on because they can't keep up in the melee and the lack the specialization in magics that other subclasses of Wizard have. They remain flexible, though, because they can still brave the melee line when other wizards cannot, but the risks are a lot higher. [/QUOTE]
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