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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5458201" data-attributes="member: 58197">To the OP... which specific feats does your DM think everybody will take?If the answer is, &quot;[favorite weapon/implement] Expertise&quot;--well, he's not wrong about that one, but that's by design. You're supposed to take Expertise; it's a patch by the game designers to fix the system math at higher levels*, and even the pre-Essentials version is so stupidly good that I don't think I've seen a single character since PHB2 who didn't have that feat. The Essentials versions just add a small, flavorful extra, to make your choice of weapon mean more than just a proficiency bonus and a damage die. In that respect, I would say Essentials adds variety to PCs.For the rest, I'm really not seeing it. I agree with the poster who said it's pre-Essentials feats that lead to boring, predictable picks. (What he should be worried about is magic items. I cannot understand why they decided to make Bracers of Mighty Striking a common item.)[size=-2]*Debate continues as to whether the patch was necessary, but it was certainly intentional.[/size]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5458201, member: 58197"] To the OP... which specific feats does your DM think everybody will take? If the answer is, "[favorite weapon/implement] Expertise"--well, he's not wrong about that one, but that's by design. You're [i]supposed[/i] to take Expertise; it's a patch by the game designers to fix the system math at higher levels*, and even the pre-Essentials version is so stupidly good that I don't think I've seen a single character since PHB2 who didn't have that feat. The Essentials versions just add a small, flavorful extra, to make your choice of weapon mean more than just a proficiency bonus and a damage die. In that respect, I would say Essentials [i]adds[/i] variety to PCs. For the rest, I'm really not seeing it. I agree with the poster who said it's pre-Essentials feats that lead to boring, predictable picks. (What he should be worried about is magic items. I cannot understand why they decided to make Bracers of Mighty Striking a common item.) [size=-2]*Debate continues as to whether the patch was necessary, but it was certainly intentional.[/size] [/QUOTE]

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