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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9349441" data-attributes="member: 87792">The Hexblade is a special case. No one really likes it or wants it - what they want is and was an actually working Pact of the Blade. To enable melee warlocks. But WotC messed up the blade pact, making it awful, and their "basically no errata" policy didn't let them fix it so they pseudo-patched by way of subclass."At least half of them are rarely taken" because of poor balance. We've seen a lot of what they are doing to some of them. Savage Attacker and Skilled, the textbook examples of bad feats, are unchanged - other than being First Level Feats and the best in class at what they do (weapon damage and more skills respectively). People are going to take both.They are. In addition to making feats first level feats they are rebalanciing. They are either nerfing or taking away the synergies of the "big four" for weapon wielders. Great Weapon Master and Sharpshooter are both getting their Power Attack switched out for other abilities; this doesn't change the "default" power of both feats played naively but means they aren't seriously OP with accuracy buffs (GWM gets a 1/turn extra damage buff for example which just takes one hit which is probably more powerful when you don't have advantage or a very easy target while Crossbow Expert allows dual wielding not machine gun fire for hand crossbows and doesn't work with Sharpshooter) and Polearm Master no longer works with one handed weapons. So the auto-picks are trimmed back. On the other hand they've buffed feats like Shield Expert, Charger, and Skulker significantly.Which is why they have in the playtest.</blockquote>

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