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I'm sure this has been spoken to death about; but here goes....
Is there a reason Combat Expertise needed to be nerfed THAT much! What a useless feat it is now for anything! What was the problem with it maxing out at +5? Was that really that unbalancing? Bottom line, no fighter is going to have more than say a 14 INT; maxing it out at +2 for most instances; it went from being a really good and serviceable feat - and useful even to have to take to get the others in the feat tree - to being like having to take Endurance to get a prestige class! I really think this has been way over-nerfed.
Power Attack; I suppose it's a good change - I certainly can see why limiting it is pragmatic - but I'm not sure if I like this much limitation.
Bottom line, I can live with PA as written if I had to; but CE is just useless and I would change it immediately for my purposes.
My proposal: (anyone play Neverwinter Nights) Just have them both be max +5.
Then you can add Greater CE or PA for max of +10.
Thats pretty simple - its easy math. +5 / +10.
I think losing extra damage from using a weapon with two hands is liveable, but I still think they should get some benefit for forgoing the option of a shield.
Robert