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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5511502" data-attributes="member: 50895">No its not broken at all. Consider that Spring Attack is a standard action which means you can only apply a normal single attack with it. Since its a standard action and other standard actions cannot be used concurrently with it, you can't combine a Smite, a Vital Strike, or really much else with it to make it broken. Its only offering you a standard single attack without incurring an Attack of Opportunity, that's all Spring Attack does.And since those other feats of 3x that grant more than one attack in a Spring Attack do not exist in Pathfinder, its already 'nerfed' compared to 3x spring attack.Depending on what you're attacking, I'd rather full attack for more opportunities to get a critical than to waste my time doing standard actions. Spring Attack used to be a 'go to' feat in 3x. Its much weaker, and therefore more balanced than Spring Attack 3x. Your DM seems not to have read Spring Attack and all its implications as it applies to Pathfinder.Spring Attack still requires 2 other feats to qualify and those feats have been nerfed compared to 3x versions. So how could anyone think Spring Attack is broken - that's a silly notion.GP</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 5511502, member: 50895"] No its not broken at all. Consider that Spring Attack is a standard action which means you can only apply a normal single attack with it. Since its a standard action and other standard actions cannot be used concurrently with it, you can't combine a Smite, a Vital Strike, or really much else with it to make it broken. Its only offering you a standard single attack without incurring an Attack of Opportunity, that's all Spring Attack does. And since those other feats of 3x that grant more than one attack in a Spring Attack do not exist in Pathfinder, its already 'nerfed' compared to 3x spring attack. Depending on what you're attacking, I'd rather full attack for more opportunities to get a critical than to waste my time doing standard actions. Spring Attack used to be a 'go to' feat in 3x. Its much weaker, and therefore more balanced than Spring Attack 3x. Your DM seems not to have read Spring Attack and all its implications as it applies to Pathfinder. Spring Attack still requires 2 other feats to qualify and those feats have been nerfed compared to 3x versions. So how could anyone think Spring Attack is broken - that's a silly notion. GP [/QUOTE]

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