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<blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 9601297" data-attributes="member: 6750235">Because the fighter has 19 AC and picks up blade ward with magic initiate.&nbsp; The barbarian has 18 AC and damage reduction.&nbsp; The fighter heals damage instead of soaking it.The difference is the fighter picks up additional defenses not available to a raging barbarian.&nbsp; Assuming they are either human with tough as well or dwarf then the fighter has 15hp and the barbarian has 17hp.&nbsp; It takes 9 hits of 4 damage halved to drop the barbarian.&nbsp; It take 4 hits to drop the fighter who spends a bonus action on second wind twice to get to the 7 hits to drop him.That's with a goblin minion example as a typical challenges to the level.Those goblins hit the barbarian 35% of the time.&nbsp; They hit the blade ward fighter 17.5% of the time (before one use of shield spell as well) and both can apply the sap feature of weapon mastery.Both are durable but the fighter's additional options do have the barbarian taking hits much more often</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ashrym, post: 9601297, member: 6750235"] Because the fighter has 19 AC and picks up blade ward with magic initiate. The barbarian has 18 AC and damage reduction. The fighter heals damage instead of soaking it. The difference is the fighter picks up additional defenses not available to a raging barbarian. Assuming they are either human with tough as well or dwarf then the fighter has 15hp and the barbarian has 17hp. It takes 9 hits of 4 damage halved to drop the barbarian. It take 4 hits to drop the fighter who spends a bonus action on second wind twice to get to the 7 hits to drop him. That's with a goblin minion example as a typical challenges to the level. Those goblins hit the barbarian 35% of the time. They hit the blade ward fighter 17.5% of the time (before one use of shield spell as well) and both can apply the sap feature of weapon mastery. Both are durable but the fighter's additional options do have the barbarian taking hits much more often [/QUOTE]

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