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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6129185" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Last question first: no, there is no difference in validity of experiences.</p><p></p><p><strong>However</strong>, my recollection was that person said it was a Wizard, not a Warlock <em>and</em> specifically said the HP disparity was due to random dice rolling and stat boosting items created by the Wizard himself. It was not that the caster prioritized Con, or that the class priortized Con, it was that he used his ability to create items to make his actual choice of stat prioritization irrelevant.</p><p></p><p>While the 3.5Ed Warlock may indeed be told to build Cha-Dex-Con, that is entirely different from the 4Ed warlock being built Con <strong>first</strong>. Add in Int or Cha for his rider effects or certain key powers and the rest of the stats mostly doesn't matter. Nearly everything else can be ignored. The HP differential is hard-coded into the class. <em>That</em> is alien to pre-4Ed D&D arcanists.</p><p></p><p>Con is no less useful for an archer ranger than any other ranged attacker. HP always matter. An archer ranger in 3.5Ed can be quite effective as a Dex-Con-Wis build: use ranged weapons as per usual and fitnessable weapons for melee. Then there's the issue of things like Endurance. Using Con as your dump stat on a 3.5Ed ranger, regardless of build, pretty much negates the value of this free Feat. Strength bows are very nice, but not essential. (Personally, I favor accuracy and durability over accuracy and damage dealing.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6129185, member: 19675"] Last question first: no, there is no difference in validity of experiences. [B]However[/B], my recollection was that person said it was a Wizard, not a Warlock [I]and[/I] specifically said the HP disparity was due to random dice rolling and stat boosting items created by the Wizard himself. It was not that the caster prioritized Con, or that the class priortized Con, it was that he used his ability to create items to make his actual choice of stat prioritization irrelevant. While the 3.5Ed Warlock may indeed be told to build Cha-Dex-Con, that is entirely different from the 4Ed warlock being built Con [B]first[/B]. Add in Int or Cha for his rider effects or certain key powers and the rest of the stats mostly doesn't matter. Nearly everything else can be ignored. The HP differential is hard-coded into the class. [I]That[/I] is alien to pre-4Ed D&D arcanists. Con is no less useful for an archer ranger than any other ranged attacker. HP always matter. An archer ranger in 3.5Ed can be quite effective as a Dex-Con-Wis build: use ranged weapons as per usual and fitnessable weapons for melee. Then there's the issue of things like Endurance. Using Con as your dump stat on a 3.5Ed ranger, regardless of build, pretty much negates the value of this free Feat. Strength bows are very nice, but not essential. (Personally, I favor accuracy and durability over accuracy and damage dealing.) [/QUOTE]
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