I am currently looking for a play-by-chat Pathfinder game and am choosing a class. I am choosing between the Oracle and the Monk, both options sound cool. However, the Monk has a reputation of being very weak, capable of nothing.
MinMax boards are down, so I can't check the in-depth guides in Pa...
As I read it everywhere, classes in the games I mentioned in the title differ in power a lot. This takes place in 3.5e and wasn't fixed in Pathfinder. Some search indicates that this problem isn't that strong in 5e anymore, but still present in 4e.
Were they created on purpose? Or was it a mista...
@nwp No, but this concept is common enough in the community and its understanding is more or less the same. T1 means "Can do anything better than classes that are intended to do it good, and can prepare for anything, can easily break the game", T2 means "Can do something very, very good, can break the game sometimes, but not always", T3 means "Can do one thing good, other things OK", etc.
@nwp There was a good guide into Pathfinder/3.5e class tiers on MinMax Boards, but the site is down.
[looks at desk] Glass of water, cup of coffee, can of root beer, glass of cranberry lemonade, another glass of water, flask of tea. I think I have a drinking problem.
@Miniman Hmm. Seems like Google doesn't know the "restored" site very well yet, I tried pretty hard and didn't find it. And spoilers disallowed the Ctrl+F search.
