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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8550762" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Literally only in the sense of spell level progression. The Paladin and Artificer are actual half-casters. You know that spell level progression isn't the whole of the spellcasting feature, yes?No. The spellcasting of the Ranger is less than half of the spellcasting of the Druid, Cleric, or Wizard. You are taking the design team's intent as fact, rather than actually analyzing the system.If you think the Ranger is as powerful as the Paladin or Artificer, there is no point to this conversation.The Bard is powerful because it's overloaded, having nearly the skill mastery of the rogue, "full" casting, and bardic inspiration, before even getting into subclasses. Compare that to the Warlock and Sorcerer. Both lag behind every single prepared fullcaster. There are 3 half casters in 5e; Ranger, Paladin, and Artificer. Of them, only the Ranger is a known spells caster. You are factually incorrect about how the classes work, and yet you lecture me about "blindspots". Now, can we either return to the actual point of the thread, or stop interacting? I do not care about CharOp discussions, and it is a distraction from the actual thread topic. If a reminder is needed, the discussion is about the ranger being frustrating to play. An issue that many people experience. We know that, because the design team has repeatedly talked about and tried to address it. The only context in which this tangential argument about casting levels is relevant to the topic is in discussing the appropriateness of known vs prepared casting as the model of casting for Rangers, and how having known spells contributes to the frustrating sense of having a small toolkit and constantly having to make more strained choices with greater opportunity cost than you would as a paladin or artificer. Particularly in the case of the Paladin, this seems backward.Of all the classes of DnD, the Ranger should have the broadest and most versatile toolkit. Instead, it is the most constrained non-full caster.</blockquote>

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