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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9595428" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Honestly not sure. I'm not sure that people play level 1 (which at 300 xp is potentially one session) the same way. Perhaps the best answer I can give is: any type of situation where overall durability is the primary goal is likely to have at least one short rest (and the difference between one and two is only 6.5 hp for the fighter). It's probably pretty important to note that, at level 1, overall durability is going to only be one small factor. Immediate durability -- how much damage can I take before my next turn -- is going to be really important as well. if you are at 1 hp and your opponent can hit for up to 15 hp, it might not matter if you can get more hit points during or after a short rest, you want to halve the damage you take nownownow. Between that and the 'decent offensive output' (meaning taking your main action to cast a healing spell is pretty limiting, a bonus action slightly less so, and just halving the damage taken after an initial bonus action the least) which class actually wins out is going to be incredibly situation-dependent. Which is probably a good thing, as you want there to be both meaningful differences and reasons to take any of the given choices. It just makes the OP question a lot harder to answer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9595428, member: 6799660"] Honestly not sure. I'm not sure that people play level 1 (which at 300 xp is potentially one session) the same way. Perhaps the best answer I can give is: any type of situation where overall durability is the primary goal is likely to have at least one short rest (and the difference between one and two is only 6.5 hp for the fighter). It's probably pretty important to note that, at level 1, overall durability is going to only be one small factor. Immediate durability -- how much damage can I take before my next turn -- is going to be really important as well. if you are at 1 hp and your opponent can hit for up to 15 hp, it might not matter if you can get more hit points during or after a short rest, you want to halve the damage you take nownownow. Between that and the 'decent offensive output' (meaning taking your main action to cast a healing spell is pretty limiting, a bonus action slightly less so, and just halving the damage taken after an initial bonus action the least) which class actually wins out is going to be incredibly situation-dependent. Which is probably a good thing, as you want there to be both meaningful differences and reasons to take any of the given choices. It just makes the OP question a lot harder to answer. [/QUOTE]

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