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<blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 8059338" data-attributes="member: 6855259">Disagree about surviving in melee. A bladesinger of any level will generally outlast a fighter of the same level in melee (meaning survive longer).&nbsp; Having twice as many hit points is not an advantage for the fighter when he will get hit 4 times as often.&nbsp; When you get to 10th level the bladesinger can trade spell slots for damage reduction and can can not only avoid more hits but can actually take more hits than a fighter can.&nbsp; Those are generalizations and the specifics matter but they are generally true.What a bladesinger needs to avoid especially before 10th level are damaging save spells.&nbsp; Things like fireball or other high damage/half damage if you fail.&nbsp; A fireball will typically one-shot a 5th level bladesinger.&nbsp; These are usually easier to avoid if you are mixed up with the enemy and for that reason I do not hesitate to put my bladesinger in the front of the fight most of the time.I will agree that you want to use spells on any difficult enemy, because your melee attacks are largely worthless after level 5 or so, but IMO you want to do it from the front and a bladesinger is a great character for things like cone spells, lighting bolts etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="auburn2, post: 8059338, member: 6855259"] Disagree about surviving in melee. A bladesinger of any level will generally outlast a fighter of the same level in melee (meaning survive longer). Having twice as many hit points is not an advantage for the fighter when he will get hit 4 times as often. When you get to 10th level the bladesinger can trade spell slots for damage reduction and can can not only avoid more hits but can actually take more hits than a fighter can. Those are generalizations and the specifics matter but they are generally true. What a bladesinger needs to avoid especially before 10th level are damaging save spells. Things like fireball or other high damage/half damage if you fail. A fireball will typically one-shot a 5th level bladesinger. These are usually easier to avoid if you are mixed up with the enemy and for that reason I do not hesitate to put my bladesinger in the front of the fight most of the time. I will agree that you want to use spells on any difficult enemy, because your melee attacks are largely worthless after level 5 or so, but IMO you want to do it from the front and a bladesinger is a great character for things like cone spells, lighting bolts etc. [/QUOTE]

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