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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanatos" data-source="post: 3103752" data-attributes="member: 5261">I don't agree with that and the monk is a prime example of a class that should play really strong, but is ultimately a one trick pony and incredibly weak if it tries to do anything else.But see, I'd consider that as part of the analysis of potency.There is plenty of gap to work with. No, the fighter is not flat out covered by the warblade. The warblade doesn't have nearly the amount of build flexibility or feats the fighter has. The warblade doesn't have all the ranged weapons, heavy armor, even fighter feats at the same level (he gets them at -2).Except this is not a radical power boost, nor is it very, very, very, really, extremely powerful (unless of course you are runing a really low-magic campaign or grim and gritty one -- in a standard campaign, it preforms just fine). Is it powerful? yes. But it is hardly radical. No is anyone trying to hem and haw it either, except the people who are insisting its way unbalanced and overpowered. Can it be ran as unbalanced and overpowered? Of course, but so can many classes, the warlock included (and many people post about how weak the class actually turns out to be -- and thats just one example).The damage outputs have been shown in multiple threads here and on the Wizards forums that show the output is comparable. This is a mechanics change from 4 encounters per day in a spell-power level sense, but melee have never been bound by that 4 encounters per day anyway, that was always a caster weakness overall. Except that its not a powergamer's delight either. Many of the optimizers don't consider the martial adept classes all that powerful for build purposes and usually only dip in them unless they are building full or mostly full progression martial adept classes. This is often what they do with the fighter class as well; they are for dipping.Additionally, the warblade has a perfectly fine concept and is about as hollow as any other class in the PHB.</blockquote>

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