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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7338300" data-attributes="member: 6795602">A few thoughts:1.  The new +1 weapon attacking the new +1 armor is very nearly equivalent to the old +1 weapon attacking the old +1 armor.  Good job keeping that balance factor present.2.  PC's are much more apt to have magic weapons and armors than the enemies they are fighting.  How will the new magic weapons and armors affect the PC vs enemy battle?2a.  PC's will do much more damage with their weapons against anything but super high AC enemies.  (Other than SS and GWM focused warriors).2b.  Monsters with large attacks will do a lot more to PC's in the new magic armor while monsters that multiattack a lot or enemies that fight in larger groups will do a lot less against the PC's new magic armor.  I think the magic armor change is probably fine.  I'm slightly concerned with it changing up the whole "keep low level monsters dangerous in numbers" philosophy.  But, I don't think 6 damage reduction is going to be any worse than the such monsters chances to hit being reduced to virtually nothing by a heavy armored character getting a +3 armor.  (Most monsters that do really low damage like that also have a low attack bonus)The magic weapon change feels more problematic to me.  If you just max stat you get a better than 50% chance to hit most the time.  When your chance to hit is 60%-65% then adding damage becomes a much more effective strategy at maximizing damage than maximizing chance to hit.  In general I think your change will have anyone with a magic weapon dealing a lot more damage to enemies.  I do like that it should reduce the need for GWM and SS to reach very high damage outputs.  However, bringing up most characters to what those feats can do is not the answer IMO.Unless the actual math proves my gut wrong I'd be against the weapon changes.  The armor changes may be okay though.</blockquote>

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