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<blockquote data-quote="Timespike" data-source="post: 8786926" data-attributes="member: 29665"><p>You are, but it's a timing thing.</p><p></p><p>Let's say you're in the party with someone else who's playing a single-classed adept, berserker, fighter, herald, marshal, ranger, or melee warlock. They will get their second attack at level 5. Even with this, you won't get yours until level 7. That's a long time to wait for one of the key features of both classes. Doing that sort of combination benefit means you'll get it at level 7 of your 4/8 build rather than 9. It doesn't look like a lot on paper, but you still have to play through those levels, and being a non-caster with only one attack and no damage bonus like a rogue's sneak attack until level 9 is going to be frustrating. Hence the feat benefit.</p><p></p><p>As far as the "direction," no, it's correct, but here's why: you can still get a third attack at level 11, but you're going to need to invest a focus feature choice into it (that's a key reason why the fighter levels count as adept ones for focus feature). That's a balancing choice; I try to avoid having a specific multiclass combo outshine the single-classed components in key ways, and picking the more (fighter) rather than less (adept) powerful option there would violate that.</p><p></p><p>If you really don't want to spend the Focus Feature choice, you can still take 11 levels of fighter to get it, after all. It's already part of your build.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timespike, post: 8786926, member: 29665"] You are, but it's a timing thing. Let's say you're in the party with someone else who's playing a single-classed adept, berserker, fighter, herald, marshal, ranger, or melee warlock. They will get their second attack at level 5. Even with this, you won't get yours until level 7. That's a long time to wait for one of the key features of both classes. Doing that sort of combination benefit means you'll get it at level 7 of your 4/8 build rather than 9. It doesn't look like a lot on paper, but you still have to play through those levels, and being a non-caster with only one attack and no damage bonus like a rogue's sneak attack until level 9 is going to be frustrating. Hence the feat benefit. As far as the "direction," no, it's correct, but here's why: you can still get a third attack at level 11, but you're going to need to invest a focus feature choice into it (that's a key reason why the fighter levels count as adept ones for focus feature). That's a balancing choice; I try to avoid having a specific multiclass combo outshine the single-classed components in key ways, and picking the more (fighter) rather than less (adept) powerful option there would violate that. If you really don't want to spend the Focus Feature choice, you can still take 11 levels of fighter to get it, after all. It's already part of your build. [/QUOTE]
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