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<blockquote data-quote="Dualazi" data-source="post: 7187988" data-attributes="member: 6855537">Correlation doesn’t equal causation, and I’d be suspicious of any such claims since the 3e fighter was also a full-attack spammer prior to the application of feats, which in my experience were often merely spent on improving the aforementioned attack spam.If they put in a default option to simply increase damage with the Superiority die, it would functionally add no additional complexity. It would just let you hit with your favorite axe slightly harder sometimes, which is something you already contend with anyway on account of action surge being baked into every fighter by default.Likewise, it’s easier to dumb down than it is to build up. If every martial class had Superiority dice, nothing would compel you to use them in ways you didn’t want to, any more than the game forces you to cast things other than cantrips. It’d be sub-optimal, sure, but evidently there’re no shortage of people on the forums who adamantly claim that optimal play isn’t required, so it shouldn’t be an issue, right?Mearls himself has come out and said the fighter was one of the larger areas he would have liked to have improvements on, and there have been numerous threads here on the boards about the deficiencies of fighters, champion most of all. It bothers me that an interesting resource system was squandered on one subclass, possibly for the sole sake of preserving the champion fighter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dualazi, post: 7187988, member: 6855537"] Correlation doesn’t equal causation, and I’d be suspicious of any such claims since the 3e fighter was also a full-attack spammer prior to the application of feats, which in my experience were often merely spent on improving the aforementioned attack spam. If they put in a default option to simply increase damage with the Superiority die, it would functionally add no additional complexity. It would just let you hit with your favorite axe slightly harder sometimes, which is something you already contend with anyway on account of action surge being baked into every fighter by default. Likewise, it’s easier to dumb down than it is to build up. If every martial class had Superiority dice, nothing would compel you to use them in ways you didn’t want to, any more than the game forces you to cast things other than cantrips. It’d be sub-optimal, sure, but evidently there’re no shortage of people on the forums who adamantly claim that optimal play isn’t required, so it shouldn’t be an issue, right? Mearls himself has come out and said the fighter was one of the larger areas he would have liked to have improvements on, and there have been numerous threads here on the boards about the deficiencies of fighters, champion most of all. It bothers me that an interesting resource system was squandered on one subclass, possibly for the sole sake of preserving the champion fighter. [/QUOTE]

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