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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 6470241" data-attributes="member: 6786252">I'm sorry, but if hybrids like the mystic theurge were supposed to work like that, then we wouldn't have gotten the Eldrtich Knight or Arcane Trickster subclasses - because that's all they are.   Wizard - Fighter and Wizard - Rogue prestige classes turned into 5e subclasses.    By your logic, you shouldn't need a subclass for these combinations - just go one level fighter/rogue, one level wizard, repeat.   5e multiclassing isn't designed to handle hybrid combinations very well.   Not with how level progression and the tiers of play work.  Especailly with non-caster characters - no stacking of extra attacks is a huge loss, and a (for example) Paladin 6/Fighter 5 will be distinctly weaker than their single class counterparts at the same character level - fighter would have third attack, paladin Improved Smite, a fighter / paladin gets nothing.   Casters have a similiar issue - their level 3, 6, and 9 spell lists are huge jumps in power.   A fireball cast as a level 9 spell is no match for a meteor swarm.   A chromatic sphere cast as a level 6 spell has nothing on disintegrate.   Even something as casting flaming sphere as a level 3 spell is embarrassing compared to casting a fireball, and that's just a 1 level difference.  There's some stuff you can do well with multiclass rules.   Hybrid leveling?   Not one of them.</blockquote>