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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9056538" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Warrior of the Open Hand: Mostly bad, but the level 11 ability is great.Level 3: Open Hand Technique. Basically, you get to add weapon mastery-type effects to your unarmed strikes. This should just be baked into all monk unarmed strikes so Open Hand can get something that sets them apart from, like, a fighter or rogue at this level.Level 6: Wholeness of Body. Compare to Way of Mercy's Physician's Touch at the same level, which does what this does but so much more. Terrible - are WotC even looking at their own sub-classes?Level 11: Fleet Step is the new, improved Step of the Wind, on demand, for free. This is amazing.Level 17: Quivering Palm. Huge nerf against most opponents. The old version did a maximum of all the target's HP (failed save) and a minimum of 10d10 (55) damage (saved). The new version does a maximum of 12D6+level (so call it 83) damage (failed save) and a minimum of half that (42) damage (saved). So against an opponent with more than 83 HP this is a nerf, potentially a massive one. Against an opponent who makes their save (most of them, because constitution saves at high levels are notoriously easy for most tough opponents) it is a straight nerf.And you lose that intimidation factor: if you fail your save, you are at 0 HP - full stop.</blockquote>