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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4441188" data-attributes="member: 72317">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.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />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.</blockquote>