I'm looking at it now, it doesn't seem too powerful on paper. What're your thoughts?have you seen troll slayer?
The a5e herald, on its face at least, isn't going to be having crazy high-damage crits though. They can crit more often like you said, that's very true. But in a5e they're not all about nova-crits- they're much more similar to earlier paladins where smite evil was nice, but not the focus of the class... which I like!yea i was an o5e paladin player, i was originally kind of disappointed with the changes. however when i finally got around to actually playing the class it seems to be stronger then it was in o5e. First of all, its far easier to gain an increased crit range as a herald in a5e than in o5e, which makes crit fishing more consistent. simply taking one level of fighter allows you to double up on stances once per sr, provides you a proper exertion pool, and get the fighters maneuver progression. with those available simply take devoted assault and furious barrage, activate both, make 6 attacks with advantage at crit range 18, each crit you can spend 1 exertion to activate striding swings and make an additional two attacks. If you want to get really spicy take 3 levels of warlock pact of the sword and take lifedrinker, that way you add your charisma bonus to damage twice.
However, I am not happy with how much value they get out of a single level dip into fighter, between exertion and maneuvers. Crazy! I would want to house rule that to require more levels to benefit or something.
The caveat here is that I haven't had a proper Herald in any of my games, so I don't have personal experience with it yet.