Q 113 Follow up question because the thread's locked. The tiers are based on the base classes, and only a few variants. What about the other variants? Like Mystic Ranger, or the full spellcasting Spellthief? Does that tier list have the hexblade listed as what's in the book, or the newly updated one that Mike Mearls announced?
Classes not in sourcebooks are generally not listed, because frankly there's a friggin' assload of them all over the internet.
Mystic Ranger is likely another T3 Ranger variant. I'm not familiar at all with the full-casting Spellthief or the variant Hexblade. Also of note is the fact that Swift Hunters are Tier 3, and Daring Outlaws are likely Tier 4. Shapeshift variant Druids are Tier 2. If you describe a class to us, we can likely peg it's tier given some thought and discussion. If you're lucky, the discussion won't involve the mothers of the posters.
Q114: If wearing Slippers of Battledancing, can you wield a one-handed weapon (say a Longsword) in two hands in order to apply Cha to attacks and 3/2 Cha to damage, on top of more favorable Power Attack returns?