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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3253600" data-attributes="member: 3586">Yep.Mind you, how often can you charge in the middle of battle? Not often. It's not that great.The warblade certainly does! Fighters are better with their normal attacks than Warblades. Now, you need a PHB2 fighter, but that should be assumed.Notes:* Warblades have no proficiency with ranged weapons. None at all. * Warblades do not have the bonus feats that Fighters do. The bonus feats that the warblade does get can only be described as weak. Nice, but weak.* Warblades suffer badly from MAD.* Warblades can't wear heavy armour. This means that at low levels, they are analogous to barbarians: high damage, low AC. (At high levels, mithral armour is the norm).* Warblades get Weapon Spec at 6th level. So, at levels 4-5, Fighters deal more damage. At levels 6-7, they're almost on par for normal attacks (and it's a toss-up as to whether the warblade's manuevers are better than the fighter's iterative attacks). At level 8, Greater Weapon Focus and later feats give the Fighter the advantage.* A human fighter at level 1 can have Weapon Focus, Power Attack, Cleave. That's a significant combination that keeps its usefulness throughout the fighter's life. That bonus feat is just useful; the ability to cleave really keeps them on par. (Sure, the human warblade can go PA/Cleave, but loses out on Weapon Focus...)Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 3253600, member: 3586"] Yep. Mind you, how often can you charge in the middle of battle? Not often. It's not that great. The warblade certainly does! Fighters are better with their normal attacks than Warblades. Now, you need a PHB2 fighter, but that should be assumed. Notes: * Warblades have no proficiency with ranged weapons. None at all. * Warblades do not have the bonus feats that Fighters do. The bonus feats that the warblade does get can only be described as weak. Nice, but weak. * Warblades suffer badly from MAD. * Warblades can't wear heavy armour. This means that at low levels, they are analogous to barbarians: high damage, low AC. (At high levels, mithral armour is the norm). * Warblades get Weapon Spec at 6th level. So, at levels 4-5, Fighters deal more damage. At levels 6-7, they're almost on par for normal attacks (and it's a toss-up as to whether the warblade's manuevers are better than the fighter's iterative attacks). At level 8, Greater Weapon Focus and later feats give the Fighter the advantage. * A human fighter at level 1 can have Weapon Focus, Power Attack, Cleave. That's a significant combination that keeps its usefulness throughout the fighter's life. That bonus feat is just useful; the ability to cleave really keeps them on par. (Sure, the human warblade can go PA/Cleave, but loses out on Weapon Focus...) Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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