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<blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 445351" data-attributes="member: 381">Oh, and here's a recent tidbit from my analyses. I had made a spreadsheet analyzing the core classes in terms of their roles in a party (rather than individual strengths, as they are most often compared). The categories were stolen from a 'net page/post from eons ago, then I tweaked scores for each class and weighting for each role to get the classes as close to balance as I could. There were three classes that were tough to bring into line with these weightings, and ended up on the top in the analysis of party contributions. In first place, the cleric. (Big surprise, there, I know.) Second and third were the bard and the ranger, two classes that end up near the bottom in individual power rankings.Both of these classes have the same basic problem, I think. They have a wide range of things they're good at, and nothing that they're the best at. As individual characters, this means that they always seem to lose in a head-to-head comparison. But in a party, the wide range of contributions makes them highly effective for the group.OK, I'll quit now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Christian, post: 445351, member: 381"] Oh, and here's a recent tidbit from my analyses. I had made a spreadsheet analyzing the core classes in terms of their roles in a party (rather than individual strengths, as they are most often compared). The categories were stolen from a 'net page/post from eons ago, then I tweaked scores for each class and weighting for each role to get the classes as close to balance as I could. There were three classes that were tough to bring into line with these weightings, and ended up on the top in the analysis of party contributions. In first place, the cleric. (Big surprise, there, I know.) Second and third were the bard and the ranger, two classes that end up near the bottom in individual power rankings. Both of these classes have the same basic problem, I think. They have a wide range of things they're good at, and nothing that they're the [i]best[/i] at. As individual characters, this means that they always seem to lose in a head-to-head comparison. But in a party, the wide range of contributions makes them highly effective for the group. OK, I'll quit now. :D [/QUOTE]

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