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<blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 5522647" data-attributes="member: 85158">What is best in life?&nbsp;To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. How do you achieve this goal?&nbsp;By taking the useful abilities your class gives you and using them well.&nbsp;Which classes tend to have the most useful abilities?&nbsp;The ones that get to tell reality to sit down and shut up.&nbsp;Casters dominating non-casters is not inevitable. After all, to quote a Russian proverb, &quot;To a bad dancer, even his own nuts are an obstacle.&quot; A poorly played caster is dramatically less effective (and less likely to make other classes feel small in the pants) than a well played one. &nbsp;In addition, there is the question of what the caster does with his power. If a spellcaster focuses on supporting his allies through buffing and etc, he's not likely to make anyone feel invalidated (Treantmonk and The Logic Ninja advocated this type of play) compared to someone who is not a team player and one-shots an epic level monster with the appropriate spell.&nbsp;But yes, in general, it's quite possible to make an non-caster feel useless. When other party members call upon the power of their gods, teleport through time and space, turn into nightmarish monsters, and generally screw up reality on a daily basis, a class who gets +1 to attack and maybe a feat when he levels up might feel that he's not contributing as much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dandu, post: 5522647, member: 85158"] What is best in life? [I]To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. [/I] How do you achieve this goal? [I]By taking the useful abilities your class gives you and using them well.[/I] Which classes tend to have the most useful abilities? [I]The ones that get to tell reality to sit down and shut up.[/I] Casters dominating non-casters is not inevitable. After all, to quote a Russian proverb, "To a bad dancer, even his own nuts are an obstacle." A poorly played caster is dramatically less effective (and less likely to make other classes feel small in the pants) than a well played one. In addition, there is the question of what the caster does with his power. If a spellcaster focuses on supporting his allies through buffing and etc, he's not likely to make anyone feel invalidated (Treantmonk and The Logic Ninja advocated this type of play) compared to someone who is not a team player and one-shots an epic level monster with the appropriate spell. But yes, in general, it's quite possible to make an non-caster feel useless. When other party members call upon the power of their gods, teleport through time and space, turn into nightmarish monsters, and generally screw up reality on a daily basis, a class who gets +1 to attack and maybe a feat when he levels up might feel that he's not contributing as much. [/QUOTE]

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