D&D 5E Spellcasters and Balance in 5e: A Poll

[Mort]

Also, I think you forgot to count the paladin's smites in round 6, since he dealt 100 damage there.

I saw mention of it, but only saw 48 actually documented? But certainly could have missed it - lots going on!
But yeah, if that's in there. That puts the Paladin solidly over 300 (right up there too) So the rogue lagged behind both. As I said, revised my opinion a bit after looking at the data.

 

[FrogReaver]

It's kind of a weird conundrum. Without feats, most of the martial options are tuned pretty well; I don't think there's any standard class/subclass option that's wildly out of whack. But without the scaling that some of the power feats provide, martial classes lose their one big advantage compared to casters.

Yep it’s impressive how balanced melee options are in the phb without feats or multiclassing.