The Duellist perk was revamped as it did not adequately suit the fantasy it was supposed to represent instead tailoring to plate wearing fighters rather than the bravos, swashbucklers, fencers and corsairs touched upon in the perk description. It strikes me as odd however that the feat was removed from the fighter trope that barely utilised it in order to withhold it from the fighter trope that the new perk was supposed to tailor to.
Being flanked as a fighter building with dexterity in mind right now is a death sentence, both in PvE and PvP content, losing half of your bonus AC alongside the flanking bonus is bad news for you. This makes playing dexterity heavy fighters plain unfun, it just feels awkward and almost unviable in the way you cannot tackle content without being so gravely vulnerable with no way of counteracting this. This forces a dexterity fighter to take on a role of a flanker akin to a rogue- who already receives the feat. Not to say that you will be expected to frontline/take on aggro as a fighter due to your hit die if your group literally does not have anyone better suited to it.
I would ask for the DM team to consider reinstating the Uncanny Dodge I feat into the Duellist fighter perk, with a possible consideration on granting it at level 5 as to not cripple lower level fighters- in order to reinstate the dextrous fighter fantasy into the game.
Being flanked as a fighter building with dexterity in mind right now is a death sentence, both in PvE and PvP content, losing half of your bonus AC alongside the flanking bonus is bad news for you. This makes playing dexterity heavy fighters plain unfun, it just feels awkward and almost unviable in the way you cannot tackle content without being so gravely vulnerable with no way of counteracting this. This forces a dexterity fighter to take on a role of a flanker akin to a rogue- who already receives the feat. Not to say that you will be expected to frontline/take on aggro as a fighter due to your hit die if your group literally does not have anyone better suited to it.
I would ask for the DM team to consider reinstating the Uncanny Dodge I feat into the Duellist fighter perk, with a possible consideration on granting it at level 5 as to not cripple lower level fighters- in order to reinstate the dextrous fighter fantasy into the game.