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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5518454" data-attributes="member: 61155">It is certainly true that balancing different resource structures is much harder than balancing within a single type of class design. And so I can get your concern, here, about Essentials classes. The potential for a lack of balance is there.  But... I don't think it is there in actuality. I think they have managed to find that balance. I don't see any significant disparity, nor do I feel they are balanced in an older style by making them strong at low level, weak at high - while there are fluctuations, I feel they aimed for a balance across all levels, and largely achieved it.  And perfect balance wasn't achievable previously, either - Warlocks, when the PHB came out (especially Star Pact) were considered underpowered compared to other strikers, despite an identical resource structure. They've since largely addressed that - and I imagine they will do the same if similar issues arise between Essentials builds vs earlier designs. But I haven't, myself, seen any indications that this is the case.  And even if there are small imbalances, and it may not be 100% perfect... any disparities are on a vastly smaller scale than the differences between fighter vs wizard in earlier editions. The two situations may be comparable, but the certainly aren't equivalent.</blockquote>