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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9163638" data-attributes="member: 72555">Sure, but the ratio in terms of damage is not that large.And it really isn't hard for a DM to compensate for caster supremacy.Give a spellcaster a staff of power.  Awesome item.Give a martial the thunderblade.  Sword grants the ability to fly at 60' speed, +2 attack and damage, adds +3d6 lighting damage, grants lightning and thunder resistance.  As a reaction to someone else dealing lightning damage to someone within 60' can redirect it to a new target as a ranged weapon attack.And this isn't theoretical.  I've seen DMs hand out rather insanely good magical weapons, and (in comparison) relatively tame tools for spellcasters (well not that exact sword, but rough equivalents).5e flattens a lot of the insane things 3e spellcasters could do.  5e spellcasters can still do pretty great things, but many of them require specific reading of specific spells that (if abused) a DM can easily rule away, unlike 3e where if you ruled out one broken combo another 200 waited in the wings.And in playing with actual people, I've seen both martials and spellcasters dominate combat.  The specific builds seem to matter more than the class.  Probably the optimization ceiling for spellcasters is much higher, but that only matters if people are optimizing for it.Mostly it has been played with 1-4 encounters per day, with 0-3 short rests.And mostly, the "I pull out big guns" from spellcasters has seemed impressive, and "I kill things fast" from damage oriented martials has seemed impressive.  Sometimes a poorly optimized PC was lackluster; but honestly, that was a Ranger/Monk/Rogue/Artificer, as those 4 classes seem to be a bit lackluster.</blockquote>

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