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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7192000" data-attributes="member: 20564">First, the basic premise is wrong.&nbsp; If you'd like to say &quot;A low-level barbarian is better than a STR melee fighter in an particular fight&quot; I could see a reasonable argument.Let me break those down.STR - a dex based fighter gets a lot of advantages.&nbsp; Barbarians on the other hand lose reckless attack and rage bonus to damage if they aren't using STR.melee - fighter makes a unquestioned superior platform for an archer or hand-crossbow than a barbarian.&nbsp; fighting style, dex use, rage resistance much less useful at range, subclass features usable at ranged.particular fight - low level barbarians have 2-3 rages/long rest.&nbsp; That means they are ranging somewhere between 25-50% of the encounters going by the DMG recommendations on encounters per day.&nbsp; Fighters are much more consistent, and their low-level abilities that do recharge tend to recharge on short rest.In other words, barbarians are great at the one thing to do, and if you straight-jacket a fighter to try to compete in that exact same niche they won't do as well in an encounter that the barbarian is raging.&nbsp; But the low level fighter is good across all of the encounters in a day, and has a lot of other niches such as dex based or primary ranged that if yu straight-jacketed the barbarian to compete in you would find the barbarian lacking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7192000, member: 20564"] First, the basic premise is wrong. If you'd like to say "A low-level barbarian is better than a STR melee fighter in an particular fight" I could see a reasonable argument. Let me break those down. STR - a dex based fighter gets a lot of advantages. Barbarians on the other hand lose reckless attack and rage bonus to damage if they aren't using STR. melee - fighter makes a unquestioned superior platform for an archer or hand-crossbow than a barbarian. fighting style, dex use, rage resistance much less useful at range, subclass features usable at ranged. particular fight - low level barbarians have 2-3 rages/long rest. That means they are ranging somewhere between 25-50% of the encounters going by the DMG recommendations on encounters per day. Fighters are much more consistent, and their low-level abilities that do recharge tend to recharge on short rest. In other words, barbarians are great at the one thing to do, and if you straight-jacket a fighter to try to compete in that exact same niche they won't do as well in an encounter that the barbarian is raging. But the low level fighter is good across all of the encounters in a day, and has a lot of other niches such as dex based or primary ranged that if yu straight-jacketed the barbarian to compete in you would find the barbarian lacking. [/QUOTE]

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