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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grickherder" data-source="post: 4703129" data-attributes="member: 68043">Right.  According to what criteria does once consider the feat "eaten"?  People take feats to accomplish things with their characters.  If those feats accomplish those things, then it doesn't matter if some guy on the internet says it's sub-par or a poor build because it doesn't give the best bang for the buck for what the guy prioritizes.  If I don't care about prioritizing combat potency and am happy with my character's baseline abilities, attack stat, etc., and I sacrifice feats that would give me an effect I want to take combat feats, than those combat feats are a feat sink.No, I don't think I can be convinced to join the "Expertise!  Oh no!  It's the end of the world!" crowd.  You're right about that.I like weapon/implement expertise.  It accomplishes a lot of good things for a lot of different players with different goals.  It makes taking a class with a race that doesn't have a bonus to the primary attack stat more viable.It can compensate for bad DM encounter design (monsters with too high defenses for the PCs-- see the only you can prevent grindspace thread).It makes more class/race combinations/builds viable.It makes more attribute distributions viable.It can be used to make a weapon specialist (lots of people dig their characters having signature weapons)It can allow for a +1 to hit when a player who's new to the game didn't make optimal choices during character creation.Quite frankly, the upsides to these feats are staggering.  And the downsides?  That some power gamers are going to consider it an auto-include?  I think I'll live.</blockquote>

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