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Hi everyone. Given that we've been told we will be able to respec our characters levels at any stage, I have a question on how to build a Ranger/Rogue/Fighter. What will be optimal as we progress through the 12 levels?

Option 1:
Ranger (Gloomstalker) for 5 levels,
Rogue (Assassin) for 4 levels, and then
Fighter (Champion or Battlemaster) for the final 3 levels.

We need to attain 2 ASIs/Feats as we need Sharpshooter and possibly Crossbow Expert as well (depends on whether we can continue to use our bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow).

Option 2:
Fighter (C or BM) for 6 levels,
Ranger (GS) for 3 levels, and
Rogue (A) for 3 levels.

This option allows us to get 2 ASIs/Feats by level 6.

Question. With the respect ability can anyone see a better way? We could progress down one path before making a modification. Put another way, is one of these builds (or another) superior at level 12? (There might also be varying optimal builds during the interim levels)

This post might belong in the Help section of the forum instead of here in the general area.

Option 2 only nets you 2 ASI. You get that every 4 class levels.

Every 4 “class” levels? Not “character” levels?

If I go X class 3 levels + Y class 1 level, i will not get a feat?

You wont according to DnD 5e. I wont be surprised if Larian changed that to character levels.

Fighters get a Feat at lvl 6, which is the 2nd Feat for option 2 build.

This is big news for me, I was not aware.. And I planned to go x 3 / y 3 to get all those subclass goodies at level 6. Now it will be delayed by 1 level, x 4 / y 3, to get the feat. But rules are rules, I prefer Larian to stick to 5E.

Class levels according to DnD 5e