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<blockquote data-quote="Old Lancer" data-source="post: 7324536" data-attributes="member: 6933722">I'm new to D&amp;D and brand new to this site. I've run into a bit of a conundrum, and this seems like a very good place to ask about it. I've got a level three human variant samurai with the Great Weapon fighting style and Polearm Master feat with stats from a point buy as follows:STR 16DEX 12CON 16INT 8WIS 13CHA 8More by (a large amount of) blind luck than anything else, this matches your build example for a polearm master almost exactly, except for the subclass difference. As you noted at several points throughout your guide, Samurai get WIS save proficiency automatically at level seven which means they don't need to take the Resilient feat for wisdom, which is great, but without the +1 to wisdom it will be at an odd number forever unless I spend or split an ASI on it and another stat, but both of those options seem like a waste, which brings me to my question. Would it be a good idea to still take Resilient, and boost up wisdom, but as my 6th level feat instead to preempt Elegant Courtier and then use the bonus saving throw proficiency to get charisma (or intelligence I suppose, but I think CHA will be more useful) proficiency as well, or is that one point and extra save not worth the feat? If it is worth it, how should I adjust my ASI/feat plan to account for it?EDIT: Now that I think about it, this could also be used to get proficiency in DEX saves if that extra point goes to DEX instead of WIS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Lancer, post: 7324536, member: 6933722"] I'm new to D&D and brand new to this site. I've run into a bit of a conundrum, and this seems like a very good place to ask about it. I've got a level three human variant samurai with the Great Weapon fighting style and Polearm Master feat with stats from a point buy as follows: STR 16 DEX 12 CON 16 INT 8 WIS 13 CHA 8 More by (a large amount of) blind luck than anything else, this matches your build example for a polearm master almost exactly, except for the subclass difference. As you noted at several points throughout your guide, Samurai get WIS save proficiency automatically at level seven which means they don't need to take the Resilient feat for wisdom, which is great, but without the +1 to wisdom it will be at an odd number forever unless I spend or split an ASI on it and another stat, but both of those options seem like a waste, which brings me to my question. Would it be a good idea to still take Resilient, and boost up wisdom, but as my 6th level feat instead to preempt Elegant Courtier and then use the bonus saving throw proficiency to get charisma (or intelligence I suppose, but I think CHA will be more useful) proficiency as well, or is that one point and extra save not worth the feat? If it is worth it, how should I adjust my ASI/feat plan to account for it? EDIT: Now that I think about it, this could also be used to get proficiency in DEX saves if that extra point goes to DEX instead of WIS. [/QUOTE]

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