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As others have mentioned that you listed Monk so low is insane. Monks do ridiculous damage at higher levels. I have to assume you have never used one or don't know how to build and equip them. Key items in Act three make it so they can easily hit 200-250 damage per round. Multiclass they can go much higher than that.

S Tier:

Light Cleric Wood Elf
Open Palm Monk Wood Elf (Gloves of Soul catching, Boots of Uninhibited Kushigo, The Graceful Cloth)
Githyanki Evocation Wizard
Dwarven* Berserker Barbarian dual wielding Tavern Brawler with the Dwarven Thrower and Nyrulna (they both return)

*or you can just use the mask of many faces to look like a Dwarf and the extra weapon damage will proc.

Honestly - even the most challenging fights won't last more than 2 rounds with this group so there is no need for anything but haste potions.

If you need a character dedicated to healing then your fights are lasting too long or you have Karmic dice on.

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As GloriousZote pointed out Githyanki have Medium Armor but they also get:

1) Innate Spells - jump, misty step, and mage hand.
2) They also get Greatsword and Longsword proficiency, so at lower levels as an Evo wizard you can be a frontline Wizard with a Hill Giant Strength potion, either thudnerin' them waves or slapping them faces.
3) They don't have the movement speed penalty that Shield Dwarves have
4) They are incredibly attractive as a race and I won't hear otherwise. Claiming they "don't have noses" and they "look like frogs" is just rude.

So you can easily hit 19 AC with good gear at lower levels and be incredibly useful at every level.

The key to a truly great build is that it pays dividends at level 1 and doesn't have to wait for some high end gear in Act 3 to work decently. I actually hate playing with players that think like that because 1) they assume the game will make it that far and 2) they just take up space suckking until they get their item that makes the build they have work.

Light Cleric is an incredible Utility class that can dish out massive damage and is extremely tanky.

1) Warding Flare /Impose Disadvantage on an enemy attacker 1/per turn uses Reaction.
2) Radiance of the Dawn - 2d10 + Wis mod - HUGE AOE that only hits hostiles - Channel Divinity
3) Fireball and Destructive Wave

Plus they bring all the usual utility that Clerics have - the only downside is they don't get any special weapon proficiencies or armor, but they are perfect for the Blood of Lathander which kicks so much ass in the shadow cursed lands. They also get Daylight as an Always prepared spell which is really nice. Daylight, as I am sure you know, blinds undead and shadow creatures, same as the mace.

Finally, and this is a big one, Drow and or High Elves get Perception as a racial + Wisdom is the key attribute in perception. Combine that with items that give advantage on perception checks and you have what is basically a "Perceptor" character. They always see stuff.

Jahiera makes a better Rogue/Monk than Astarion or a Better Cleric than Shadowheart because she starts with Perception.

You are ALL wrong. Bard is the best mele in the game bar none.
It’s practically GOD mode and can manhandle every encounter on tactician alone

in your dreams scrub

monk is nothing near barb/paladin/fighter

my crit champion just rekt elder brain on hard mode in 1 turn and don't even used all 9 attacks cause 4 was crits and needed only 6 - so yeah monk is better in your dreams = can your monk do over 500 dmg in 6 attacks ?

I acctually prefer life cleric cause he make your team immortal no matter what bad RNG you will have
bless ring and blade ward gloves and have fun (both from act 1)

Yes but needing a dedicated healer is a scrub move. :P

With the right overpowered configuration nothing will live long enough to do any real damage.

I like how literally a page ago you quoted your warrior as doing 7-23 damage but now he’s supposedly magically doing 100 damage per attack on a crit. Provide a screen shot of your character’s inventory, showing what equipment he’s using, the damage per attack and the to hit bonus. It should be trivially easy to do.

And yes, Monk is better than Fighter 6 / Barb 6, in a variety of configurations including but not limited to Monk 8 / Barb 4. And if you think Monks are garbage before act 3 (hilarious btw), pick a point in the game and pick a level and we can just run the comparison again. As previously indicated the last one was deliberately quite generous to the Fighter, I can assure you at lower levels it turns out much worse for them.

1/10 try again

I really am not. Once I post my GOD MODE bard build on here soon , you will see how ignorant you are. And no, you can’t find the build online, but don’t worry I will post it on here so with videos of me soloing every single boss on tactician

bear barb laugh on your bard in terms of tankines of everything same with light cleric

there is nothing better in terms of power then light cleric to solo

bard is trash

battle master with 5% crit its not same warrior as champion with 25% crit, its was my 3rd play thou with champion and 2nd with battle master

and learn to count 6 hits with over 500 dmg its not 100 dmg per hit, elder brain have ~500 hp on hard

and no nothing in melee is better than barb/paladin/fighter and some mix with them like paladin/temp cleric or barb/fighter or pure of them

the only diffrence that barb is much better on lower levels and later paladin and fighter and better etc

Correct it's at minimum 84 and at most 100 damage average per attack, but any damage range with an average damage of 85+ should be capable of hitting 100, especially since you said 4 were crits of the 6. So either crit damage was very close to non-crit damage, or I would expect the crits to have damage ranges hitting 100. Statistically that should be true, assuming of course that what you've indicated is accurate. Which it's a bit suspicious that you're now claiming you were *not* hitting 100 damage on a crit, but it should be easy to prove - just post the equipment and build used or post the picture showing your inventory. It should not be hard to do.

Yep but using that great sword with 18 Str will give you 10-22 damage; a crit with it is +2d6 damage (2-12) for a total of 12-34 damage, which is quite a ways off from 83 damage per swing you see. If all the rest of your gear is focused on improving your crit rate, it’s rather hard for it to also add +50 damage per swing. Even if we assume you’re using an elixir to improve your Str to 27 and Great Weapon Master, that’s +18 damage, leaving you 32 damage per swing short even if you rolled max damage. So it does indeed matter what other gear she used, as your claims as presented are simply not possible.

Edit: note those damage ranges; a crit at this point is doing up to 12 higher than a non-crit. You said 4 of them were crits but now you’re saying 500 damage divided by 6 is 83.33 as though someone didn’t already know that. Are you trying to claim all 6 attacks did exactly 84 damage, crit and non-crit alike? That certainly seems…. Unlikely at best.