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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1703996" data-attributes="member: 707">This post was prompted by a comment in another thread:Why is this?  It seems so inaccurate to me.  In my last campaign, the most potent combat character was the greatsword-wielding fighter.  In the campaign I currently play in, the most potent combat character is the greataxe wielding fighter.  He (in both cases) does the most damage in the group, hands-down.Now, my last campaign only lasted to 6th-level, and we're currently only at 4th, so perhaps this is a mid to high-level problem?  Or is there something else?I'm currently playing a paladin in the game with the half-orc fighter, and the fighter still out-damages me.  Granted, my character is sword and board, but even were I to wield a greatsword I wouldn't be as effective as he is, in a pure damage-dealing capacity.So tell me...what is it about the fighter that makes people think the class sucks?  How are they obsolete?  I feel like I'm missing an inside joke here, the way it keeps coming up as taken-for-granted.</blockquote>