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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9012157" data-attributes="member: 87792">First, when Treantmonk actually ran the numbers on a melee fighter he found (as I'd been pointing out from the start) the fighter had a substantial damage buff. The only people the GWM &quot;nerf&quot; really hurt were raging barbarians and precision battlemasters.Second it's pretty obvious that the intent wasn't to nerf Hex. If the warlock pact-cast rather than half-assed cast then Hex would be doing exactly the damage it did before at most levels for Eldritch Blast; it would make other damage spells be more viable with higher levels of Hex. However this change (a defensible one) was made without seeing what happened if you ripped the casting guts out of the warlock and tried to replace it with a generic off the peg solution with little care and effort put in to the design of the class as a whole. (With the new Hex being an obvious example of how thoughtlessly these changes were made).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 9012157, member: 87792"] First, when Treantmonk actually ran the numbers on a melee fighter he found (as I'd been pointing out from the start) the fighter had a substantial damage [I]buff[/I]. The only people the GWM "nerf" really hurt were raging barbarians and precision battlemasters. Second it's pretty obvious that the intent [I]wasn't[/I] to nerf Hex. If the warlock pact-cast rather than half-assed cast then Hex would be doing exactly the damage it did before at most levels for Eldritch Blast; it would make other damage spells be more viable with higher levels of Hex. However this change (a defensible one) was made without seeing what happened if you ripped the casting guts out of the warlock and tried to replace it with a generic off the peg solution with little care and effort put in to the design of the class as a whole. (With the new Hex being an obvious example of how thoughtlessly these changes were made). [/QUOTE]

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