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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8112557" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I disagree. I can show you mathematically that 4e's Beastmaster is barely, if at all, inferior in combat to a BA build Ranger. The ACTUAL problem with BM is that people were absolutely determined that it had to work in one certain way (IE the beast had to be able to make super potent attacks) and any other possibility was simply rejected without any real analysis.</p><p>This is an example of where the rules simply don't match up with what people expect and anticipate. One option would be to simply flavor things differently. The real issue was that I agree with you, a 'beastmaster' where the beast is an overwhelming combatant WILL NOT work, particularly in 4e. So this was not an option for whomever designed the MP1 BM option. They had to come up with a solution, which was to make the BM ranger a secondary controller and allow their combat potency to be about 5-10% less in order to compensate. The Beast is actually fine, but its main uses are as a blocker, and as a tool outside of combat (which is an aspect that 4e has trouble factoring into its balance equation).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8112557, member: 82106"] I disagree. I can show you mathematically that 4e's Beastmaster is barely, if at all, inferior in combat to a BA build Ranger. The ACTUAL problem with BM is that people were absolutely determined that it had to work in one certain way (IE the beast had to be able to make super potent attacks) and any other possibility was simply rejected without any real analysis. This is an example of where the rules simply don't match up with what people expect and anticipate. One option would be to simply flavor things differently. The real issue was that I agree with you, a 'beastmaster' where the beast is an overwhelming combatant WILL NOT work, particularly in 4e. So this was not an option for whomever designed the MP1 BM option. They had to come up with a solution, which was to make the BM ranger a secondary controller and allow their combat potency to be about 5-10% less in order to compensate. The Beast is actually fine, but its main uses are as a blocker, and as a tool outside of combat (which is an aspect that 4e has trouble factoring into its balance equation). [/QUOTE]
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