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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1062915" data-attributes="member: 1015">I'm still going to say that the Elven Ranger is much more overpowered than the Hunter.The elven ranger gets a new favored enemy every 2 levels, an additional 10 feet to the range increment of their bow every level, the ability to use their bow as a melee weapon, double threat range on all arrows (all arrows are considered keen),  the anticipation ability (+4 to initiative, and the ability to become nearly immune to Attacks of Opportunity), and the ability to cleave with arrows.  In addition, they get all the archery skills of a 3.5e ranger, two good saving throws, and spells.  Even with the +1 level adjustment that elves suffer, that's still too good.The Favored Terrain ability of the hunter is interesting, but not extremely useful, and the Extended Throwing Range ability probably won't see a whole lot of use because I almost never see PCs use throwing weapons in D&D.  The biggest advantage that the Hunter Class has is the Greater Critical ability, which would be far too easy to exploit (imagine a scythe-wielding hunter that is doing 19-20/x5 for critical hits).  However, I think that if the Greater Critical ability were removed, the class would be safe for campaign play.We can both agree, though, that the Gladiator is extremely overpowered. <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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