D&D 4E 4e Contest - Prove Nate Wrong Finalists - You help decide winners!

[Commonblade]

Commonblade,

I had a big reply typed and summited, but the server stalled and lost everything I typed I don't have time to reply now, I will do my best to reply in the next day or so.

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[DracoSuave]

Any character that does more than 21 damage with an average hit will -never- benefit from Power Attack. It actually reduces the amount of damage they do.

After a certain point, Power Attack is a trap.

 

[Runestar]

Any character that does more than 21 damage with an average hit will -never- benefit from Power Attack. It actually reduces the amount of damage they do.

After a certain point, Power Attack is a trap.

The drawback of making absolute statements like this is that I just need to raise 1 single point to disprove this and the entire statement falls apart.

Power attack clearly requires that you put in a little effort into making it effective.

If you are a fighter with bab+16, power attack may grant you more damage on your 1st hit (or 2 with haste), but cause your iterative attacks to miss more often, which may then offset any gain in damage.

It is clearly more useful if you only get to make 1 attack/round at your highest bab, such as diamond blade. There is that bracers in MIC which lets you make touch attacks, which meshes well here. All out power attack (doubled if wielding a weapon 2-handed), multiplied by 4 times due to nightmare blade.

Of course, if you have shock trooper, then there is no incentive to not power attack.

 

[Commonblade]

Commonblade,

I had a big reply typed and summited, but the server stalled and lost everything I typed I don't have time to reply now, I will do my best to reply in the next day or so.

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