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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9424500" data-attributes="member: 7030563">AndSo what?  You have another reaaction you can use when you can't or down't want to use RetaliationI don't know that only half the Barbarian subclasses have reactions.  I only provided examples for half of them.  As opposed to no uses at all now as a reaction.It is not particularly niche either.  It is situational, but it applies to all saves to charm and frightened effects, so it is going to be used frequently.  Not every combat, but probably every combat with an enemy throwing charmed or frightened .... which is a lot of enemies.Not mutually exclusive, those are two different subclasses and it is not the same net reactions because they have more uses.The new ability requires enemies to save the first time every round they hit you and if they fail they miss you instead.  When this is active it is going to be affecting every single enemy that attacks you and retroactively changing the outcome of that attack.  As I put in the notes you can use it on allies from level 3 and you get more uses at level 6.  And this is part of what I am talking about.  At 6th level plus in 2104 Warding Flare was used extensively on Clerics that got it.  After 6th level a Cleric never went to bed with uses left unless they did not get in a fight.  Back in 2014 a Cleric with a 20 Wisdom could use it 5 times, so that was 5 a day.  Now it is 5 times a short rest ... so it is more or less just about every single round.It is a lot more when you consider uses, and consider there are going to be more players coming to the table with spells and feats too.Some things do not require a reaction, but even on the things that do, if players have reactions available they are going to use them and players are going to have more reactions available both because the features that offer them can universally be used more often and because there are just more available.</blockquote>

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