That is true. Though with GWM you’re still often required some amount of set up to make it work reliably, usually through getting advantage or steroiding your ‘to hit’ so far it’s not even funny. Which to be fair is exactly what a fighter does, clue’s in the name.
Fighter is about rolling so many dice that if you go a round without hitting something you’ve seriously pissed off Nuffle the Chaos God of RNG. But without that fighter wouldn’t do anything spectacular that another class couldn’t do, so I feel it’s fair that a class called Fighter is really, really good at fighting. GWM in particular is certainly strong but it’s no stronger than a caster blowing up an entire room with one spell or a paladin rolling 20d8 on a single smite against a Lich after getting in one hit.
And higher in-built AC, and higher initiative, and higher dex saves (I can name STR saves on one hand), higher stealth skills… STR isn’t useless by any means but Dex in 5e is in general able to cover far more. Makes me wonder if they’ll tweak it for 6e whenever that comes around.
Very understandable. I admit I have a habit of going a bit ‘minmax’ on my characters (I like making builds), but 5e makes it hard if not impossible to make the ‘perfect’ character. You can’t have godly saving throws, dex, AC and spellcasting and more. You have a weakness and DMs should be ready to exploit it (Without getting too oppresive ofc). I have yet to have a minmaxed character single-handedly make a fight easy. But if an entire group is being number crunchers it can be a potential issue especially if one or two people out of six are sub-optimal.
At the same time if someone decides to be ‘suboptimal’ on purpose, and builds a character for ‘roleplay’ but then dumps INT as a Wizard because “It’s how the character is” they can’t really then complain that their damage isn’t on par with someone who made their main stat their… well, main stat. Which is character building 101 without even trying to minmax…
Bit of a ramble but I actually sat down and tried to make the most broken character possible: Best I could do was a Fighter/Bladesinger Wizard with 18AC before buffs via Warforged, but that still had subpar saving throws in areas, or a Hexblade/Vengeance Paladin, but their utility outside combat was very limited and they lacked the AoE of dedicated casters or the durability of full frontline. Both we pretty disgusting but not game-breakingly bad.
A friend and I do that!
But we’ve normally forgotten we’re supposed to be Rping and are just chatting crap in /g.
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I wasn’t talking about OOC people… I mean the people flying over in VoH and those sitting in the ceiling in cathedral square are different cases!
It’s kind of a sign of getting old. Or having taste.
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It’s a station that caters to old people. I must be in denial.
Zweihanders in MORDHAU.
Chieun, do you play MORDHAU? I am betting my spire agent license (its totally a thing now) you do.
Other peeve: Sometimes I get random disconnects from WoW. When I log in again, it says there is a queue for a bit.
Anyone else get it? I can see my router from here and it’s not my internet, it seems to be just WoW.
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I don’t, For Honor is more my thing. Cheaoka plays it a ton though and it doesn’t look like a bad game at all.
Welp, now you’re a spire agent.
For Honor makes me rage too much. Mordhau does too, but there’s something satisfying about putting down two bear traps next to eachother behind a doorway, using Emotes and waiting for an enemy to come through, then they get trapped and knocked down by the bear trap and I stab them while they’re knocked down. I am a scumbag.
It does seem to make some people into walking salt geysers, but it’s just too much fun. It strikes the perfect balance of realism and fantasy to me.
I’d like For Honor a lot more if people played it more like the game it is instead of just trying to go for every meta they saw in some youtube video.
Also remove Raider’s damn stun-tap, it’s an abomination against god.
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I also play For Honor, and Jesus. I never knew there was a side of me that could bare such seeth, but when I get incrediblé’d by a Centurion because I missed a dodge… lordy.
INCREDIBILIS
emote spams quickly at you
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I love black prior and while he is not my highest rep (only 9) I think he’s my new main.
Come at me.
Lawbringer rework might change that but probably not. I love how proactive BP can be.
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lawbringer and black prior ![:heart_eyes:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/heart_eyes.png?v=6" ":heart_eyes:")
Yee boi, that sword and board and poleaxe game
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I tried to main Nuxia, and I also like the Orochi, the Aramusha and the Tiandi.
The Monk is funny only for his kill animation.
Only issue I have with sword&board is that sometimes when you wanna do cancel your fullblock stance and do a light attack it’ll still register as though you’re trying to do the flip so you just eat two hits and look like a dummy, other than that, BP is amazing.
Honestly I play all heroes a fair amount. The only hero I never touch is Shaman because even 1.5 years later I am mad about her and think she’s an unhealthy design.
For Honor is great fun but sadly the more experienced you become the worse it gets. I will never be a good player because my natural reaction speed is so poor, but I can still tell that even after 2 years most of the cast needs to be reworked. Shaolin will be fine with some small buffs to help him open up non-assassins, kensei needs better side lights and a faster top heavy (or variable top heavy feint timing), Conqueror needs a defense nerf and charged heavy buff, and BP/warden are ok where they are.
Everyone else needs serious looking at - devastating flaws or imbalances in their kit, or just unhealthy mechanics (looking at you, raider dodge GB).
Shaman is the only non-knight hero I play
Weeaboos get out of my crusade simulator
