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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7418670" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>Not sure why you assumed I was speaking in theory. It's not something I said, or implied, and you never asked me. </p><p></p><p>I am answering from my experience. Direct, actual experience for quite some time now, playing a PC with this feat. It's literally his only feat, so I am intimately familiar with it. You can even find other threads around here where I asked for advice on taking the feat before I did.</p><p></p><p>You know how often the Dex benefit from the shield has benefited my character in an actual roll, over a year period of time? Twice. Neither was life-saving either. Just two ordinary saves made when it would have otherwise failed. That's it. That's how often that has come up in actual play for us, over an entire year.</p><p></p><p>You know how often it would have been helpful to bash the target AFTER my attack instead of before? I think zero. It would have hurt more than it helped, every time. We have too many ranged attackers in our party. </p><p></p><p>In actual, direct experience, this change is causing me to either talk my DM into ditching the feat, or ignore the new ruling. Because we both know this change makes the feat nearly useless to us in actual play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7418670, member: 2525"] Not sure why you assumed I was speaking in theory. It's not something I said, or implied, and you never asked me. I am answering from my experience. Direct, actual experience for quite some time now, playing a PC with this feat. It's literally his only feat, so I am intimately familiar with it. You can even find other threads around here where I asked for advice on taking the feat before I did. You know how often the Dex benefit from the shield has benefited my character in an actual roll, over a year period of time? Twice. Neither was life-saving either. Just two ordinary saves made when it would have otherwise failed. That's it. That's how often that has come up in actual play for us, over an entire year. You know how often it would have been helpful to bash the target AFTER my attack instead of before? I think zero. It would have hurt more than it helped, every time. We have too many ranged attackers in our party. In actual, direct experience, this change is causing me to either talk my DM into ditching the feat, or ignore the new ruling. Because we both know this change makes the feat nearly useless to us in actual play. [/QUOTE]
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