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** The Samurai class's Blade Grasp Reaction Ability ensures that your units will rarely get physically hit ever again.

** The hugely powerful Monk + Double-Strike combo. At level 50 or so, these tend to deal ~200 damage ''per hit'' — a feat only [[GameBreaker matched by Cid]].

*** Then there's the Embrace the Dark Chaos/Shun the Dark Chaos feat shuffle. To explain, Embrace the Dark Chaos replaces one of your feats with a abyssal heritor feat but forces you to be chaotic. Shun the Dark Chaos means you can swap out that abyssal heritor feat for a normal one. This allows you to replace all the sucky mandatory feats with any other feat. Where it really gets broken is that some races, like Elves, get weapon proficiency feats instead of just weapon proficiencies like everyone else that can then be shuffled away to get much better feats (in the case of Elves, that's six extra feats).
*** Leadership is such an obvious choice for any character with high Charisma, that many [=DMs=] ban it outright. You can get a cohort to loyally follow you, who will be two levels lower than your own character — but since LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards is in effect, your cohort could still easily be more powerful than other members of the party, or even more powerful than ''you''.

*** The spell Power Within gives 100 seconds of significantly boosted damage and stamina regeneration, which essentially every character build benefits from, at [[CastFromHitPoints the cost of draining a full health bar]] over the duration (i.e. a measly 1% of your HP per second), which is pretty manageable because you can have as many as twenty [[HealingPotion Estus]]. It can be used by anyone for little to no cost, as its only stat requirement is taking up one Attunement slot (something every starting class either has to begin with or needs 1-2 levels to reach). After being entirely absent in [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII the second game]], it returned in [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII the third]] significantly {{Nerf}}ed (half the damage boost, no stamina regeneration boost, and a duration of only 30 seconds, although this was balanced out by having it only cost 30% of your HP instead of all of it).

** The Lucky feat. The ability to have several free re-rolls every day would already be useful to just about everyone; to top it off, you can use it on rolls that you have disadvantage (roll two dice and pick the lowest roll) on, allowing you to roll a third time and pick the ''highest'', turning disadvantage into ''super''-advantage. There is never a wrong build to pick it on.

*** Lucky again. 3 times per day, you can give yourself an additional chance to not fuck up. In a game where luck is a big factor and a single bad roll of the dice can really ruin your day, this is a big deal. Combine this with either a Divination wizard (who rolls two dice at the start of each adventuring day and may substitute any roll with one of them) or a Chronurgy wizard (who can make an ally or an enemy reroll), and starting at level 2, you mold fate like putty in your hands up to 5 times per day.

*** Cavaliers and their subclass paladins had the unfair mechanic of being allowed to increase their ability scores through training - cavaliers could increase their strength, dexterity and constitution and paladins could increase charisma also. This meant that high level cavaliers and paladins were very likely to have all exceptional scores in those abilities. A complete case of FridgeLogic as there is no justifiable reason to allow this particular class to increase abilities as they leveled up while barring other classes from doing so.

*** Then there's the Embrace the Dark Chaos/Shun the Dark Chaos feat shuffle. To explain, Embrace the Dark Chaos replaces one of your feats with a vile feat, but forces you to be evil, damned when you die, and no one likes you (not to mention that vile feats generally suck). Shun the Dark Chaos means you can swap out that vile feat for a normal one. This allows you to replace all the sucky mandatory feats with any other feat. Where it really gets broken is that some races, like Elves, get weapon proficiency feats instead of just weapon proficiencies like everyone else that can then be shuffled away to get much better feats (in the case of Elves, that's six extra feats).

*** Heavy Handed increases damage with Melee and Unarmed weapons while decreasing their critical hit chance. Again, only people specifically going for a crit build should even be caring about their crit chance at all, and the most powerful Melee and Unarmed weapons only have a x1 multiplier to crit chance, making them unsuitable for such a build.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deepwoken}}''The Simple Flaw reduces your EXP gain in exchange for providing 2 boons to choose for your character and being the only flaw for this character you can get at the start, discounting other flaws you get from Shrines and Yun'Shul. Considering that EXP gain is largely ineffective at max Power, this makes it the best Flaw provided one is willing to bear the additional level grind.

*** The Prisoner's Chain is a ring that boosts your Vigor (HP), Endurance (stamina), and Vitality (equipment load) by 5 points each, while lowering all of your defenses by 4%. A pittance for what amounts to 15 free levels. It's practically mandatory if you want to optimize your character and still stay within the metagame's level range for [=PvP=]. Of course, you have to beat a difficult BonusBoss to get it...

* ''VideoGame/ShotgunKingTheFinalCheckmate'': In a game where the player has to pick an advantage card for Black ''and'' [[ChooseAHandicap White]] at the end of a level, there are a few Black Cards that give a good advantage with minor drawbacks.

* ''VideoGame/ShotgunKingTheFinalCheckmate'': In a game where the player has to pick an advantage card for Black ''and'' [[ChooseADisadvantage White]] at the end of a level, there are a few Black Cards that give a good advantage with minor drawbacks.

*** The Gifted Trait gave you one point towards each of your SPECIAL stats at a cost of 10 less to all skills at the start and 5 fewer per level. Not only is the actual per-level point penalty only 3 (because you gain 2 per level more from the extra point of Intelligence), but there are far more skillbook powerups throughout the game than PIP-Boy stat powerups. And since SPECIAL stats use a PointBuildSystem, you can reassign most of those gained stat points to Intelligence to get a net ''increase'' in Skill points[[labelnote:*]]The total skill point loss will be equal to 7 points of INT for 20 levels (the cap in the first game), but you're not going to put points in every skill.[[/labelnote]].

*** Likewise, the ability to Pounce (or something mechanically similar) is almost mandatory for higher-level melee characters. It gives the ability to make a full attack after charging, so it can mean the difference between spending your first turn getting off just one attack, or half a dozen.