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<blockquote data-quote="Orion5000" data-source="post: 9130837" data-attributes="member: 7042624">I meant the Dread Knight from GG #8. a pure Herald at 1st level can have 4 exertion points per long rest, while a Fighter of the same level has 4 per short rest. This might initially seem ok for what ought to be a half-martial class, but at 20th level the Herald can have a whopping 72 exertion points per long rest, while a 20th level Fighter get only 16 per short rest. Additionally, if the Herald takes only 1 level into Fighter it can have 72 points per long rest and 12 points per short rest, making it the most reliably useful weapon-user despite only learning up to 8 maneuvers without feats.The Dread Knight accomplishes a half-martial / half-caster much better by using spell points for both spells and maneuvers, which are regain on a short rest, making it more like a magical Fighter than a magician who can fight for longer than a Fighter. As a side note, a Warlock can already choose its casting stat (and therefore, the mental stat it uses for its Maneuver save DC), and you have the building blocks for a well balanced, generic gish that be either the emissary of a deity, nature itself, or its own arcane knowledge depending on your flavour and choice of maneuvers.I would personally revamp the whole Herald class to work like this and to be more of a generic gish rather than a reskinned paladin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orion5000, post: 9130837, member: 7042624"] I meant the Dread Knight from GG #8. a pure Herald at 1st level can have 4 exertion points per long rest, while a Fighter of the same level has 4 per short rest. This might initially seem ok for what ought to be a half-martial class, but at 20th level the Herald can have a whopping 72 exertion points per long rest, while a 20th level Fighter get only 16 per short rest. Additionally, if the Herald takes only 1 level into Fighter it can have 72 points per long rest and 12 points per short rest, making it the most reliably useful weapon-user despite only learning up to 8 maneuvers without feats. The Dread Knight accomplishes a half-martial / half-caster much better by using spell points for both spells and maneuvers, which are regain on a short rest, making it more like a magical Fighter than a magician who can fight for longer than a Fighter. As a side note, a Warlock can already choose its casting stat (and therefore, the mental stat it uses for its Maneuver save DC), and you have the building blocks for a well balanced, generic gish that be either the emissary of a deity, nature itself, or its own arcane knowledge depending on your flavour and choice of maneuvers. I would personally revamp the whole Herald class to work like this and to be more of a generic gish rather than a reskinned paladin [/QUOTE]

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