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<blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 8973766" data-attributes="member: 7040941"><p>Why is being slightly less played than everything else a problem?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Crawford says a lot of things and much of the community agrees that he's the last person to be going to for opinions on what is and isn't wrong with the game. You should question why you're agreeing with him.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They aren't weaker. Ranger especially, but Monk and Sorcerer aren't weak.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, why does it matter? WOTCs data also asserts to us that the Champion Fighter is the most popular combo in the game. You really need to start examining why you're trusting what WOTC is telling you to think about this.</p><p></p><p>This again goes back to what I said ages ago about this issue feeling like its the tail wagging the dog.</p><p></p><p>Prior to WOTCs assertions that Druid is the least played and too complex, I literally never heard of anybody complaining about the Druid on these lines.</p><p></p><p>This whole issue got conjured out of thin air.</p><p></p><p>Like, Im a redditor. I can go on r/dndnext, one of the most toxic places that has no qualms about being critical of 5e, right now and run some searches on the Druid.</p><p></p><p>Every single post I can find that talks about Druid being too complex or not played enough was only posted in the <strong>last month. </strong></p><p></p><p>The sole exception Ive found thusfar is a post from 7 years ago, that ranked the complexity of the PHB classes and did put Druids at the bottom, with, ironically, Land being listed as more complex than Moon.</p><p></p><p>And in that post, they hold the fact that its a Prepared caster with full access to its entire spell list as being just as much a reason for the complexity as Wild Shape is, if not more so.</p><p></p><p>But none of this is spun as an actual problem.</p><p></p><p>Which just emphasizes that even if we must take WOTC at their word that theres totally an issue here that isn't a figment of someones imagination, then it comes down to magic being a massive problem with the games design, that as said earlier, suffocates everything. </p><p></p><p>Nerf magic into the ground, then work at other aspects if necessary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Emberashh, post: 8973766, member: 7040941"] Why is being slightly less played than everything else a problem? Crawford says a lot of things and much of the community agrees that he's the last person to be going to for opinions on what is and isn't wrong with the game. You should question why you're agreeing with him. They aren't weaker. Ranger especially, but Monk and Sorcerer aren't weak. Again, why does it matter? WOTCs data also asserts to us that the Champion Fighter is the most popular combo in the game. You really need to start examining why you're trusting what WOTC is telling you to think about this. This again goes back to what I said ages ago about this issue feeling like its the tail wagging the dog. Prior to WOTCs assertions that Druid is the least played and too complex, I literally never heard of anybody complaining about the Druid on these lines. This whole issue got conjured out of thin air. Like, Im a redditor. I can go on r/dndnext, one of the most toxic places that has no qualms about being critical of 5e, right now and run some searches on the Druid. Every single post I can find that talks about Druid being too complex or not played enough was only posted in the [B]last month. [/B] The sole exception Ive found thusfar is a post from 7 years ago, that ranked the complexity of the PHB classes and did put Druids at the bottom, with, ironically, Land being listed as more complex than Moon. And in that post, they hold the fact that its a Prepared caster with full access to its entire spell list as being just as much a reason for the complexity as Wild Shape is, if not more so. But none of this is spun as an actual problem. Which just emphasizes that even if we must take WOTC at their word that theres totally an issue here that isn't a figment of someones imagination, then it comes down to magic being a massive problem with the games design, that as said earlier, suffocates everything. Nerf magic into the ground, then work at other aspects if necessary. [/QUOTE]
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