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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondas711" data-source="post: 6484573" data-attributes="member: 6788507"><p>Does anyone else find it odd that the preferred weapon of the elf sword and shield fighter is no longer the optimal weapon for that race?  I am of course speaking of the longsword.  The favored weapon of the wood and high elf no longer really fits them.  If using point buy, the dwarf, human, half-orc, and dragonborn can all start at a 16/17 str yielding a +3 hit/dam.  The high elf and wood elf can only start at a 15 str and only get a +2 hit/dam.  So why is the dwarf using the longsword better than the elf?  Flies totally in the face of reason in my book.  Oh, and also I don't prefer to use the favored weapon of the hated, despised drow either (the rapier).  So, either the longsword shouldn't be favored by surface elves, wood elves should have got a +1 to str instead of wis and had the longsword proficiency, or the longsword should have had the finesse property.  Any of these options would have been better than the odd configuration we have now.  Also, before anyone says that a versatile weapon with finesse would be too strong, remember that the longsword is one of the most storied weapons of history and attaching those options to it would do a lot to set it apart in the game also.  As it stands, a warhammer weighs less and does the same thing as a longsword.  Well, except that the warhammer smashes skeletons better and doesn't split oozes.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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