>>96306277
Nah.
I was around for the era of 3.5 and what people acted like. There was way too much praise of edge wizard strats that, as the OP points out, only work 1 in 4 times. Probably from tables that are blatantly ignoring rules to some degree too in a way that favors wizards most of all. While also downplaying how strong druids were. All the weird stories typed before 4E even existed centered around wizards, and even then you could tell it's from people ignoring a dozen different rules anyway. Like scribe times, gold costs, material costs, resting, travel time, delays from the wizard being the wizard, and on and on. All stuff no one liked tracking cause it's cumbersome. And no small amount of wizards who know how to DM the game better than the DM.
>>96306365
I regret every day I ever tried making weapon finesse work. Even monks perform 1000% better going all in on strength with a healthy backing of CON for the inevitable. Besides, if I get hit? I have the move speed of a fighter jet. I also have the ability to ignore AoOs. I am not constrained by your mortal logic of stand and die. No, if I regret my attack commitment, I can be in another zipcode in one turn. It's like they knew the issue and provided for it. Like they are.. game designers or something. Wow. With some funny niche things you can do. Otherwise, just ATATATA people's health away.
Works the same way in Pathfinder 1. Not sure about 2. Haven't looked in to it. But it has the same weapon finesse issue. For the same reason. Turns out dexterity is a shitty stat.
