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Casters scale their magic damage from INT, WIS or CHA. So give them a damage cantrip to be their auto attack since they don't use spell slots.
Casters who have little Dex or Str just use their damaging cantrips, which are decent in BG3; well for some classes (Wizards). Clerics cannot count on their cantrips as much.
Do not judge 5e too quickly : it is over 50 years of editions, countless thousands of playtesters before 5e release, and countless more playing while WotC really checks the feedbacks. It is the most balanced system up to now, though not perfect at all (eg. weapons are not balanced as well as they should be in my opinion and the armor table needs some love).
It gets worse.
The longsword and battleaxe are the same weapon, they just look different.
Armour also directly scales, the only armour worth your time is Fullplate, halfplate, breastplate and studded leather. The rest is garbage.
Depends. Draconic Sorcerers for example can add their Charisma mod to damage rolls on spells matching the element of their chosen ancestry at level 6, and several Cleric domains can add their Wisdom mod to the damage of Cleric cantrips at level 8.
Yeah except full plate. half plate and breast plate are exceedingly rare. You can turn your nose up at chainmail and go naked I guess, but most characters are not going to have access to full plate until around level 10 and half plate and breast plate are not universally available to level 4 characters, which is where this game ends.
Scale Mail, studded leather, chain mail and a chain shirt are the most common armors used in the p+p games I play.
OFF TOPIC but Relevant:
Someone above mentioned Weapons like battleaxe and longsword being the same weapon. This is true even in the table top, your weapon choice is more about flavor. Youre making a character not optimizing a spreadsheet. Personal example: I don't wear helmets, and keep one hand open to throw rocks.
About Armor, depends on your skillset, Rangers and Rogues dont typically get to use heavy armor and studded would give them disadvantage on stealth rolls. Which pending on your ranger, thats bad m'kay.
having 15-17 ac is about medium armor. Depending on your Dex modifier (-2 - 0) you'll want heavier armor. Or medium if you have +1 - +2,, light if its +3 or none if youre a caster because youll be using mage armor or shield spells.
A lot of things in tabletop narrative still aren't represented here and likely wont be, such as having a -2 dex would basically mean your character has really bad balance and trip on mundane objects often. The negatives are supposed to mean something about the character. Because it doesn't, it leads to an optimization habit. So keep the Flavor in mind in selecting equipment. Play to win and you'll get bored (because you will win).