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<blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 8173431" data-attributes="member: 6855259">Have you played a bladesinger?&nbsp; Single class Bladesingers are one of the best if not the best &quot;tank&quot; in the game in terms of surviving in melee.&nbsp; They almost never get hit so low hit points are not relevant in melee (and at higher levels they can use spell slots to take no damage from rare attacks that do hit).&nbsp; A single-class bladesinger will outlast any character except a Barbarian in straight up melee on the front line, they will easily outlast most Rangers, Fighters and Paladins. Those classes have a little less than twice as many hit points but they get hit about 4 times as often.&nbsp; Barbarians get hit more too but being getting resistance to damage evens it up so Barbarians effectively have about four times as many hit points.To be clear, by outlast I mean stay alive.&nbsp; What they won't do is much damage in melee so they can't win a melee fight on their own, but they will survive as well as anyone.&nbsp; They are not better all around front line melee characters than the martial classes I mentioned, but they are better at defense and staying alive in melee than they are.I have played twice with a single class bladesinger and against most foes she is the character in the party that moves to block the enemy and never leaves melee range and keeps the enemy off the rear area characters (to be clear she does not use weapon attacks every round, she uses spells but from the front).&nbsp; One of these characters got hit twice in melee total between level 2 and level 8.&nbsp; She went multiple levels in a row without having anyone hit her at all even though she was in the thick of it.&nbsp; Now she went down several times from other stuff (spells mostly), but not from melee.Against really tough enemies that can 1-shot you go with Blur and mirror image and the chance of a critical hit on you is 1 in 1600 while all your images are up.&nbsp; Like I said, you are not doing a lot of damage as a bladesinger though, unless you are hitting them with hard spells.&nbsp; A side benifit is being at the front also makes AOE spells, especially&nbsp; cone spells a lot easier to cast without party members in the way.Considering the rest of the party my plan is not to always disengage, that is why I am looking at a multiclass.&nbsp;&nbsp; That said booming blade plus disengage looks very attractive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="auburn2, post: 8173431, member: 6855259"] Have you played a bladesinger? Single class Bladesingers are one of the best if not the best "tank" in the game in terms of surviving in melee. They almost never get hit so low hit points are not relevant in melee (and at higher levels they can use spell slots to take no damage from rare attacks that do hit). A single-class bladesinger will outlast any character except a Barbarian in straight up melee on the front line, they will easily outlast most Rangers, Fighters and Paladins. Those classes have a little less than twice as many hit points but they get hit about 4 times as often. Barbarians get hit more too but being getting resistance to damage evens it up so Barbarians effectively have about four times as many hit points. To be clear, by outlast I mean stay alive. What they won't do is much damage in melee so they can't win a melee fight on their own, but they will survive as well as anyone. They are not better all around front line melee characters than the martial classes I mentioned, but they are better at defense and staying alive in melee than they are. I have played twice with a single class bladesinger and against most foes she is the character in the party that moves to block the enemy and never leaves melee range and keeps the enemy off the rear area characters (to be clear she does not use weapon attacks every round, she uses spells but from the front). One of these characters got hit twice in melee total between level 2 and level 8. She went multiple levels in a row without having anyone hit her at all even though she was in the thick of it. Now she went down several times from other stuff (spells mostly), but not from melee. Against really tough enemies that can 1-shot you go with Blur and mirror image and the chance of a critical hit on you is 1 in 1600 while all your images are up. Like I said, you are not doing a lot of damage as a bladesinger though, unless you are hitting them with hard spells. A side benifit is being at the front also makes AOE spells, especially cone spells a lot easier to cast without party members in the way. Considering the rest of the party my plan is not to always disengage, that is why I am looking at a multiclass. That said booming blade plus disengage looks very attractive. [/QUOTE]

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