Quote Originally Posted by Innis Cabal View Post
The "Teir System" is the biggest trap in 3.5, and also one of it's most annoying fallacies. It's more and more annoying every day to see it used as some sort of guide line. It's not really how actual play goes. So just ignore it.
Testify!

...I don't believe this was the original stated intent of the creator of the tier system, but it's often how it's used now. "Oh, don't play class X, it's only tier 4"...even if you really wanted to play it because, you know, you enjoyed the class. It's all a bit unfortunate.