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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7058953" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>You mean, 3+ allies surrounding the target who have no other use for their reaction (like Uncanny Dodge/Shield/Defensive Duelist/Sentinel). And they have to have a high movement rate as well or else the target can retaliate by striking them and moving out of attack range (so they get no attacks that turn), because they've already used up their reaction.</p><p></p><p>That's pretty niche--you basically have to build your whole party around the feat in order to make it at all OP, and even then it's only OP-ish at low levels. By the time you hit level 5, a free opportunity attack is only a 50% bump to damage for warriors, and by level 12 it could only be 33%--you'd probably benefit more from a grapple/prone combination, which tends to swing loss ratios by 100% or more.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't set off any of my powergaming alert instincts. You wouldn't need to do anything unusual in order to challenge a party where someone had this feat. In fact it probably leads them down a suboptimal path where everybody is trying to get into melee simultaneously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7058953, member: 6787650"] You mean, 3+ allies surrounding the target who have no other use for their reaction (like Uncanny Dodge/Shield/Defensive Duelist/Sentinel). And they have to have a high movement rate as well or else the target can retaliate by striking them and moving out of attack range (so they get no attacks that turn), because they've already used up their reaction. That's pretty niche--you basically have to build your whole party around the feat in order to make it at all OP, and even then it's only OP-ish at low levels. By the time you hit level 5, a free opportunity attack is only a 50% bump to damage for warriors, and by level 12 it could only be 33%--you'd probably benefit more from a grapple/prone combination, which tends to swing loss ratios by 100% or more. It doesn't set off any of my powergaming alert instincts. You wouldn't need to do anything unusual in order to challenge a party where someone had this feat. In fact it probably leads them down a suboptimal path where everybody is trying to get into melee simultaneously. [/QUOTE]
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