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Message: <blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 8173456" data-attributes="member: 6855259">I agree about hp.  I said they are irrelevant in melee - meaning someone swinging weapons, claws, tentacals at you and making an attack roll against your AC.  When the dragon breathes fire on you then you die, and you die regardless of where you are standing when he does it.  Same with psionic blast and toll the dead.  I will note though that a 10th level bladesinger can reduce the damage done by all of those by 25 points with song of defense, which is more than the difference in hp between a 10th level wizard (42hp) and 10th level fighter (64hp).  So all else being equal; at 10th level, if an enemy is going to one shot you with enough save damage to kill the bladesinger, it is going to kill the fighters in the party too.  Note against the dragon she could alternatively use absorb elements and half the damage, which again more than evens up the difference in hp.A 20 with disadvantage is only a critical if you roll two of them on the same attack (1 in 400) and only if it targets you and not one of your images.  Playing two bladesingers for 3 years I have never had a critical hit on them while both blur and mirror image were up.  I have had one critical hit with just blur up and that was a one-shot.  Some dragon-hybrid rolled two 20s and downed my 6th level wizard straight out with one hit and a 6th level fighter I think would have survived that hit (although I am not sure a fighter would have survived the turn).  That has happened once, total, in 3 years of games, and that was the only time that particular character got hit by a melee attack at all the entire time she was 6th level.</blockquote>

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