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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2646245" data-attributes="member: 707">So the fact that your fighter has chosen to forgo archery prowess in favor of roleplaying feat choices, and is therefore stymied by Deflect Arrows, means that Deflect Arrows is overpowered?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  If a wizard chooses to take nothing but [Fire] spells for roleplaying purposes, does that suddenly make Energy Immunity overpowered?  The counter is there, and easily accessible, even if some characters choose not to make use of it.The point is that Rapid Shot is available at level 1, and at level 6 you don't even need that anymore to still do damage vs. a target with Deflect Arrows.You're comparing one character who's chosen to invest in a feat to defeat 1 ranged attack each round, against another character who has chosen not to invest in a feat to gain one extra ranged attack per round.  You don't see how this comparison is skewed?In any other scenario where one has focused on ranged offense/defense and the other hasn't, the one who's focused deserves to be better at it.  They've invested a feat into being so!  And after level 6, the offensive character doesn't even need the feat.</blockquote>