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Why everyone think that Battlemaster is better than Samurai?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bardbarian" data-source="post: 7437812" data-attributes="member: 6802784"><p>Samurai is an amazing class however most of the guides rate subclasses by pure offensive potential, which battlemaster is slightly better at offense. Samurai is designed to be harder to stop and therefore rates slightly lower in offense yet is better at defense. As a result the guides make it seem like one is better than the other yet both are extremely strong. I played a samurai to level 20 and people are often surprised that it is as strong as it is. The free feat by not having to take Resilient Wisdom is quite nice and allowed me to take resilient in another stat and the level 18 feature when triggered usually ends fights. The downside of occasionally missing bonus action attacks from GWM feat is also balanced nicely by the ability to gain THP and advantage whenever you need it. They are just two sublclasses that feel different and are among the 3 strongest sublclasses in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>As far as BM is concerned, I like it for multiclassing and dips but I chose to skip it because in a long game it doesn't really get any abilities that feel new as it levels. going from a d8 to a d10 and finally to a d12 isn't as exciting as getting a new ability that changes the gameplay. A BM usually has all the maneuvers it really wants at level 3 so the ones they gain later don't really excite me. They get more and more niche as you level. They are mechanically sound, just frontloaded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bardbarian, post: 7437812, member: 6802784"] Samurai is an amazing class however most of the guides rate subclasses by pure offensive potential, which battlemaster is slightly better at offense. Samurai is designed to be harder to stop and therefore rates slightly lower in offense yet is better at defense. As a result the guides make it seem like one is better than the other yet both are extremely strong. I played a samurai to level 20 and people are often surprised that it is as strong as it is. The free feat by not having to take Resilient Wisdom is quite nice and allowed me to take resilient in another stat and the level 18 feature when triggered usually ends fights. The downside of occasionally missing bonus action attacks from GWM feat is also balanced nicely by the ability to gain THP and advantage whenever you need it. They are just two sublclasses that feel different and are among the 3 strongest sublclasses in my opinion. As far as BM is concerned, I like it for multiclassing and dips but I chose to skip it because in a long game it doesn't really get any abilities that feel new as it levels. going from a d8 to a d10 and finally to a d12 isn't as exciting as getting a new ability that changes the gameplay. A BM usually has all the maneuvers it really wants at level 3 so the ones they gain later don't really excite me. They get more and more niche as you level. They are mechanically sound, just frontloaded. [/QUOTE]
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