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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 3199600" data-attributes="member: 31506">I view balance as important. Part of this is from my abysmal experiences in 1st and 2nd edition playing non-casters, and why I think those editions werent worth the paper they were printed on. You honestly may as well have not showed up to the session for all you'd contribute from your class abilities (RPing, problem solving, etc is something ANYONE can do). Being shown up at everything isnt particularly fun. In almost all cases, the people who find balance to be unimprotant were those who played clerics or mages in previous editions. Let them eat cake and all that jazz.I dont expect everything to be equal, but it should be reasonably close. I grit my teeth every time I buy a book and see a class or feat thats OBVIOUSLY crap. Swashbuckler, Samurai, Hexblade, etc I'm looking at you. If I never see another half progression caster prc, or another sorry +2/+2 feat, that would be grand.One thing to point out, is that there are intentionally 2 power levels for feats. You have your power attack type, and your toughness type. Toughness sucks. Combat Casting sucks. That's intended. The designers made bad feats on purpose, to use as punishers for PRC requirement. What's unfortunate is that people forgot that, and seem to think that anything thats better than crap like skill focus is broken.&nbsp; However (as was noted in the PHB 2 design interview), we have more than enough useless feats, so I'm glad we're seeing ones that are worth taking coming out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jefe Bergenstein, post: 3199600, member: 31506"] I view balance as important. Part of this is from my abysmal experiences in 1st and 2nd edition playing non-casters, and why I think those editions werent worth the paper they were printed on. You honestly may as well have not showed up to the session for all you'd contribute from your class abilities (RPing, problem solving, etc is something ANYONE can do). Being shown up at everything isnt particularly fun. In almost all cases, the people who find balance to be unimprotant were those who played clerics or mages in previous editions. Let them eat cake and all that jazz. I dont expect everything to be equal, but it should be reasonably close. I grit my teeth every time I buy a book and see a class or feat thats OBVIOUSLY crap. Swashbuckler, Samurai, Hexblade, etc I'm looking at you. If I never see another half progression caster prc, or another sorry +2/+2 feat, that would be grand. One thing to point out, is that there are intentionally 2 power levels for feats. You have your power attack type, and your toughness type. Toughness sucks. Combat Casting sucks. That's intended. The designers made bad feats on purpose, to use as punishers for PRC requirement. What's unfortunate is that people forgot that, and seem to think that anything thats better than crap like skill focus is broken. However (as was noted in the PHB 2 design interview), we have more than enough useless feats, so I'm glad we're seeing ones that are worth taking coming out. [/QUOTE]

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