My biggest complaint about so many of these discussions is the tendency for the folk claiming casters are too good compared against martials to ignore how spells known/prepped works and assume that any niche spell no matter how niche is available & ready in any edge case situation no matter how contrived.
As to the OP's point about EK/AT, I'd be more than happy if those were the crunchy/high damage casters with the actual casters free to clam their own niche. For that to happen though actual casters like wizard & such would need spells & class mechanics that allow them to be casters who reliably proved themselves to be just as meaningful of a contributor to the average session as the martials do whenever a combat comes up.
As to the OP's point about EK/AT, I'd be more than happy if those were the crunchy/high damage casters with the actual casters free to clam their own niche. For that to happen though actual casters like wizard & such would need spells & class mechanics that allow them to be casters who reliably proved themselves to be just as meaningful of a contributor to the average session as the martials do whenever a combat comes up.
resistant to nonmagical bludgeoning piercing slashing & generally low AC's stacked up against energy resist, energy immune, magic resist, legendary resist & frequently noteworthy saves is nonsense when wotc goes out of their way to nullify resistant to nonmagic bludgeoning piercing & slashing. Magic items were originally created to balance out LFQW's effects, but 5e dialed back everything that could contribute to LFQW & left the magic items to invert it badly in many ways.On that point, fully mundane martials like champions and battlemasters and samurai are some of the only classes that are entirely reliant on DM fiat to be able to overcome resistance in monsters with what is their core class combat feature.
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