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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9080951" data-attributes="member: 6801228">As I showed here <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/playtest-6-survey-is-open.698851/post-9077832" target="_blank">https://www.enworld.org/threads/playtest-6-survey-is-open.698851/post-9077832</a> this is missing some fundamental points. For example, Paladin smites are worth more. You need to flurry four times to have the same impact as a single 1st level divine smite. So, with the paladin being able to easily smite 10 times the Monk would need to Flurry 40 times to have a similar impact. With 32 rounds of combat MAX in your assumption, they don't even have enough rounds of combat to do so. And this assumes 8 fights, which we know most tables DO NOT have. It doesn't matter how slow and steady you go, if the finish line occurs BEFORE you can catch up. And since your average of 4 rounds is taking us into 10 combats per day, that becomes unsustainable. And that is assuming every divine smite is a 1st level spell, when they are mostly stronger than that. And as the levels increase, the paladin gets more spell slots. By 19th level, the paladin can smite 16 times, meaning the monk needs 64 rounds of combat, or 16 fights PER DAY to catch up. Which is absurdly unrealistic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9080951, member: 6801228"] As I showed here [URL]https://www.enworld.org/threads/playtest-6-survey-is-open.698851/post-9077832[/URL] this is missing some fundamental points. For example, Paladin smites are worth more. You need to flurry four times to have the same impact as a single 1st level divine smite. So, with the paladin being able to easily smite 10 times the Monk would need to Flurry 40 times to have a similar impact. With 32 rounds of combat MAX in your assumption, they don't even have enough rounds of combat to do so. And this assumes 8 fights, which we know most tables DO NOT have. It doesn't matter how slow and steady you go, if the finish line occurs BEFORE you can catch up. And since your average of 4 rounds is taking us into 10 combats per day, that becomes unsustainable. And that is assuming every divine smite is a 1st level spell, when they are mostly stronger than that. And as the levels increase, the paladin gets more spell slots. By 19th level, the paladin can smite 16 times, meaning the monk needs 64 rounds of combat, or 16 fights PER DAY to catch up. Which is absurdly unrealistic. [/QUOTE]

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