Originally Posted by ZOZO1006
Originally Posted by geala
Interesting discussion. It had to be a fair duel without racial advantages or disadvantages and only with normal non-magical items. Perhaps it's really random, and the turn based combat with initiative is not the best environment for fair duels, I think.

BTW, since a chest once stole my greatsword, I always have two spare +1 twohanders prepared in addition to the equipped weapon. laugh


Originally Posted by ZOZO1006
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I want to point out something else the dps and survival race isnt favouring both paladin and barbarian.
The winner is Larian's Beast Master Ranger. With 5 attacks unlimited animal companion / frenzy raging boar with dex save prone . He have always advantage and hunters mark is unlimited. And can also dump dexterity to use heavy armor.
Currently nothing can beat the beast master with great weapon master + hunters mark.

You mean in combat against NPCs? Sounds so, although I find a Strength based Ranger boring and onesided, a bit like a Barbarian without the rage mechanic. In a duel against a player? The boar has 11 hp and AC 11, and the Ranger has no resistances against physical damage. Hmm.

The beast master rangers pet a are lvl up at lvl 5.
The boar pet get 30 something hp and Frenzy barbarian rage.
So he get 1 +1 attack and 50 % damage reduction +2 damage on everything same as barbarian. And he also received +3 to attack and armor class .
Its har to fight a class hou have a barbarian boar that can knok somone down every turn.
And in this case sanctuary dont even help cuz the boar rush attack is an aoe.

Ok, I see. So maybe it is actually good especially for duels. smile

But what about normal gameplay? The problem with Prone applied by a different party member for me is that it often does not fit into the sequence of actions, in the cases where it only counts, very hard fights against a lot of enemies in difficult terrain. I prefer to have the possibility to have advantage on the acting char, even if that means advantage for others against me.

But the biggest problem of the "Boar Master" for me would be that it seems best to be melee with heavy weapons and heavy armor, very unappealing to my idea of a Ranger. What about the raven with his blinding ability and ranged damage of the Ranger or melee damage with finesse weapons? Should give advantage too, and the targets cannot get up, like from Prone, and deny the effect depending on acting order? Is that a Wisdom saving throw? Surely the damage wouldn't be anything near melee with GWM.