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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 3183252" data-attributes="member: 38357">I definitely noticed that. As I had mentioned earlier, I think that a Warblade (or any other Martial Adept class) is much, much harder to build / optimize than a Fighter (or Barbarian, or whatever). I do not think that I would, personally, label that a "Bad Idea(tm)". I'm not sure that's a problem, but then again I'm not sure it's exactly a feature, either. I do believe that it makes some of the comparisons I've seen less valid, as you simply can't just grab whatever maneuvers you want. I also think that assuming that a Warblade will recover their maneuvers every-other round (or even every three or four rounds) is a bit suspect; there are probably situations where it would be advisable, but I think that in most circumstances it's going to be more effective (and more fun, if that matters) to go ahead and fire off your lower-level maneuvers or even unload a full-attack.One thing this thread has brought up for me is that there are a lot of (IMHO) "little" things that the Warblade gets that I don't think individually make that much of a difference, and I wouldn't even say that combined they overbalanced the class (or would necessarily make the player of a Fighter feel upstaged / overshadowed), but they do have an impact. Maybe that's mostly just psychological, but I don't think the Warblade is going to be rendered useless if you take away a hp per level, or remove some or all of the Weapon Aptitude ability. I'm just naturally wary of "nerf"ing a class, especially in order to avoid overshadowing a different class, it doesn't seem to ever work out positively for me. I'd be much more inclined to give Fighters a bit of a boost (possibly adding a class feature to allow them to apply the Weapon Focus / Specialization line of feats to a group of weapons, similar to the Weapon Group feats from UA).</blockquote>

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