Ovinomancer
No flips for you!
Sure they can, but is being a back line, high AC caster stepping on fighter toes or even preferable to other tradition abilities from that same spot in the back line? Seems a wash to me.Or might have been the one casting it...
I think you mean, 'at the end of a long day?' And, yeah, if the Bladesinger faces a third combat between short rests with no Bladesong he's out of luck, while the EK is still wearing armor.
Did I miss something, or can the Bladesinger not invoke it's crazy AC tricks and still cast away in full-on-Tier-1 wizardly mode?
Essentially what you're saying is that actually being a wizard is so much better than playing at being a faux-fighter that the Bladesinger could go ahead and co-opt even more of the fighter's shctick and still be operating at a net loss any time it chooses to play fighter, at all?
Agreed, up until co-opt, as I don't think the bladesinger really takes anything from the fighter at all. The bladesinger can have a high AC, but that's not really the fighter's shtick, is it? The fighter does survival on the front lines, and while a high AC certainly helps there, crits happen. When they do, the fighter is likely still in there with his high HP pool and recovery options, but the bladesinger is lying on the deck, bleeding out or staring dead. Stepping into melee as a glass shield is neato, but doesn't take away from the fighter at all.