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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7253711" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>Well, I've never said the first one, and all of my examples are about giants attacking the bladesinger because it's only a fair review of the bladesinger being able to tank if she, you know, tanks.</p><p></p><p>Except it's more like 1-2, with a smaller chance of none (chance of 0 hits is 22%). If you use the examples with shield of faith and a higher AC, well, then, you've swapped shield our for shield of faith and have still spent a 1st level slot, only this is one you can't Arcane Recovery.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Up your resource assumptions by 1 shield per combat and we'll be able to move past it.</p><p></p><p>And, no, it doesn't, because it's spending the majority of it's resources and combat options to be a front liner and reduces it's effectiveness as a wizard concurrently. During the period where the bladesinger AC is very good relative to enemies' attack bonuses, it has limited access to spells over 2nd level and needs almost all of those to run it's shtick. After around 7th, where you have some availability of higher slots, the enemies' attacks have gotten to the point where the bladesinger's shtick becomes much more dangerous -- she's getting hit more often and the damage is higher but her hitpoints aren't keeping up. You're handwaving that away with clerical support, but what happens in a party without clerical support or in a party where the cleric's player isn't interested in being the bladesinger's batman?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7253711, member: 16814"] Well, I've never said the first one, and all of my examples are about giants attacking the bladesinger because it's only a fair review of the bladesinger being able to tank if she, you know, tanks. Except it's more like 1-2, with a smaller chance of none (chance of 0 hits is 22%). If you use the examples with shield of faith and a higher AC, well, then, you've swapped shield our for shield of faith and have still spent a 1st level slot, only this is one you can't Arcane Recovery. Up your resource assumptions by 1 shield per combat and we'll be able to move past it. And, no, it doesn't, because it's spending the majority of it's resources and combat options to be a front liner and reduces it's effectiveness as a wizard concurrently. During the period where the bladesinger AC is very good relative to enemies' attack bonuses, it has limited access to spells over 2nd level and needs almost all of those to run it's shtick. After around 7th, where you have some availability of higher slots, the enemies' attacks have gotten to the point where the bladesinger's shtick becomes much more dangerous -- she's getting hit more often and the damage is higher but her hitpoints aren't keeping up. You're handwaving that away with clerical support, but what happens in a party without clerical support or in a party where the cleric's player isn't interested in being the bladesinger's batman? [/QUOTE]
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