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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6367929" data-attributes="member: 6685730">There's a key phrase here.  "Optimized for damage."  A character can be specialized in several different ways, so it's important to know what that specialization is.  Also, I'm going to treat "optimized" as a slightly-more-balanced version of minmaxed.  The latter being a character who is poor at everything besides his One Thing.See minmaxed.I'd say it can make encounters more interesting.  A damage-optimized character will neatly handle the damage requirements of an encounter, but poorly handle the negotiation, gentle-persuasion, trap finding or avoiding, and many other possible resolution requirements.  If no one else in the party is very good at dealing damage, they'll be happy to have this optimized character.Upping the CR just makes your opponents more difficult.  In what way should they be more difficult - that's the question you want to ask.An optimized character has weaknesses.  As long as he has to worry about those, his optimization isn't an issue.Best answer.  It all depends on the group, and the game.</blockquote>