Jesus Christ the Beast-master ranger is fucking atrocious. Like, seriously irreconcilably awful. Easily the worst path of any class in the game.
It makes way of the four elements monk look playable in comparison.
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1. It's not actually all that broken. Reread the animal companion guide because 9 out of 10 discussions I get into about this don't notice really simple things like you get to add the ranger's proficiency bonus to the animals' AC, Saves, Attacks, and Damage.
2. Barding.
3. Stop expecting to play a 3.5 druid that gets a free fighter with every level
4. Realize that the animal is an extension of a singular class feature that will come back after a long rest. You can even change out the animal for added utility, and eventually can even begin casting Hunter's mark on the creature.
5. The largest weakness of the animal is that it has the HP of a wizard with no Con. Considering the bonus to AC and the barding potential, this is only bad if you get hit with a breath weapon. If you want to remedy this, allow the animal to add it's con modifier plus ranger level.
6. If your concern is roleplay reasons for having the animal, but you still think the animal is too weak to survive, keep in mind that the animal doesn't have to die at 0 HP and can be cured/revivified. Baring that, talk to the DM and see if you can convince him that when you rest for 8 hours that the same animal companion comes back. They will RARELY say no.
7. Stop sucking dicks and trying to make 5e into 3.PF.
By not exaggerating how bad it is, letting companions perform a short command instead of just swapping an attack for a worse one, and telling the DM to throw a companion a magical item or two.
So lvl 6 ranger has an animal companion with 24 hp, and an AC of.. 18 if you're lucky and have somehow gotten the gold/opportunity for barding?
Still gonna go down like Monica Lewinsky in any decent fight that would challenge a party of lvl 6's. And as soon as it hits the dirt you now have to worry about healing it/keeping it alive.
Why the fuck would I ever bother? Hunter far far better (and ranger is already somewhat under-powered).
Not about making 5e into 3.5. It's just bad. Like SUPER bad. I'm not talking 'zerker barbarian bad' or 'valor bard' bad this is a whole new universe of terribleness.
It doesn't even get magical attacks at lvl 6. How did they possibly miss that out? Moon druid gets magical attacks, monk gets magical attacks.
Fucking insane how poorly designed this path is.
>So lvl 6 ranger has an animal companion with 24 hp, and an AC of.. 18 if you're lucky and have somehow gotten the gold/opportunity for barding?
Lucky? Barding is merely x4 the price of the armor you want. You can pick up some chain mail barding for merely 75 x 4 = 300 gold, which is quite doable at low levels, giving your animal companion an AC of 19 for relatively cheap. Scale mail can have the exact same AC for only 50 x 4 = 200 gold with the only caveat being the animal needs at least a +2 in dex.
That's not luck at all.
>Still gonna go down like Monica Lewinsky in any decent fight that would challenge a party of lvl 6's
No? With AC 19 as a baseline, it's really not going to go down relatively quickly. Not unless EVERY enemy on the field suddenly decides to attack it. It's only real threat is if it fails a dex check against a fireball. That is a realistic possibility, but mages aren't all that common of a fight at level 6. Even if you want to arrange it so that this doesn't kill the animal companion, all you'd have to do is allow the animal companion it's Con mod x Ranger Level to give it the same exact HP progression as a Sorcerer/Wizard's average HP. Even a simple +1 on the animal would bump it up to 30 HP, which is over fireball's massive 8d6 average damage.
>(and ranger is already somewhat under-powered).
Not really. Most rangers that have played at my table are incredibly powerful, especially with their spell assortment. Take a look over that spell list one more time.
>It doesn't even get magical attacks at lvl 6. How did they possibly miss that out? Moon druid gets magical attacks, monk gets magical attacks.
>Fucking insane how poorly designed this path is.
Fighters don't even get magical attacks at level 6 either. Neither does Rogues, Barbarians, or the Ranger himself! Its insane how poorly designed these paths are.
You're an idiot.
>start with beast
>get more beasts
>get better beasts
>get to ask beasts to do increasingly stupid things for you
>get along better with beasts in general
That sounds pretty beast master-y
>Fighters don't even get magical attacks at level 6 either. Neither does Rogues, Barbarians, or the Ranger himself! Its insane how poorly designed these paths are.
Easily the stupidest line you wrote. These classes are designed to get magic weapons, failing that there are magical buffs that allow them to do the same (magic weapon).
Moon Druid and monk get magical attacks for the obvious reason that it's not a guarantee that you're gonna get a magical item that gives you unarmed magical attacks (nothing in DMG).
The fact that you'd even defend what is obviously a major oversight makes you fucking retarded
>Not really. Most rangers that have played at my >table are incredibly powerful, especially with their >spell assortment. Take a look over that spell list >one more time.
Hunter ranger is 'ok'. Blaster warlock is far better at ranged DPS though.
Beastmaster ranger remains the worst path in the game as RAW RAW also being how I fucked your sister
>Easily the stupidest line you wrote. These classes are designed to get magic weapons,
Were you referring to yourself? Sorry, but the game was written from the ground up around the math of the characters without magic items and that's why magic items are largely hidden away in the DMG away from the players. The only two classes with built in magical attribute physical attacks are monks and moon druid. Everyone else either must use magic spells or rely on a responsible DM to give them magical weapons.
>Beastmaster ranger remains the worst path in the game as RAW
I'm not going to say that you're incorrect about Sorclock being the highest "DPS" in the game, but statements like "Beastmaster ranger remains the worst path in the game" is discrediting the class and the game when in reality, Ranger has a lot more functionality than the Warlock does overall.