Just to add something : it's not really a matter of level 4 or not. Advantages to improve our %to hit will be used during the 80+ hours and you won't have better choices than the actual jump/disengage and highground.
I don't know 5E but I suppose those who do know what higher level stuff will available. Maybe there will be a magic item that just passively gives advantage, that's probably what it would take to make me not jump constantly
Setting up dipping on every encounter might be interesting or horribly tedious. Maybe I'll try it on a 2nd run and see if I grow to hate it haha.
I think to be honest the game relies to heavily on advantage and disadvantage. In 5e the number of times I swing with advantage is like 5%. And with spells, fucking never. I think the game should avoid giving these dumb bonuses for things that don't even really give you an advantage. You feel like an idiot when you are playing to not always be above or behind your enemy, but frankly there's so many other things that should be used but just aren't because its too easy to just run to the top of the mountain and rain hell fire while the npcs struggle to hit anything and cant figure out how to navigate anything but a flat surface open field.
Its super boring, repetitive, and easy game play that really kills the excitement of a D&D like game. Problem is that the game abuses the fuck out of everything it can so if you don't also do it you'll just lose ever combat. I wish that sneaking was a more core gameplay feature because of all the things they got wrong, sneaking is dead on from an advantage stand point to an ambushing opportunity attack. Problem is that ever single battlefield has near to no cover and when you do successfully hide, the npcs bug out like you just ceased to exist rather than searching for you. The opportunity of sneak is especially ruined since height is king which means even if you have something to hide behind, the enemy will just always choose to go higher to see you rather than run in on you.
