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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
I was with you at your initial concept, to talk about the beastmaster in a productive way. But it seemed a cherry-picked example of very specific levels (not even the normal tier end or starts) of one particular animal companion vs. the weaker of the fighters subclasses, but ignoring that fighters get extra ability score increases and could easily have feats to increase their damage. It also picked a defensive fighter (defense style and one-hand+shield) and then handwaved away how the AC increases will affect play with just a mention that they were massive.
What I came out of from this is that even if you load your example as heavily as possible towards the beastmaster, it doesn't keep up with an average fighter build. I know that wasn't your point, but I'm not trying to sugar-coat anything. I don't know why they chose this incarnation, perhaps for action economy and not having players taking multiple characters worth of actions, but the beastmaster doesn't keep up with others.
I wish it did.
What I came out of from this is that even if you load your example as heavily as possible towards the beastmaster, it doesn't keep up with an average fighter build. I know that wasn't your point, but I'm not trying to sugar-coat anything. I don't know why they chose this incarnation, perhaps for action economy and not having players taking multiple characters worth of actions, but the beastmaster doesn't keep up with others.
I wish it did.
