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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KuKu" data-source="post: 3057419" data-attributes="member: 42817"><p>Weapon specialization isnt without penalty either. You must spend a feat and you must have at least four levels of fighter and you can only use it with a specific weapon. Each of the feats has a different set of penalties. For the monk he can only use the one weapon which is his unarmed strike and so other weapons he might wish to use do not gain the benefit. If you do not believe that power attack is bette for a fighter than improved natural attack is for a monk can you explain why that is? At level size which is the first level that the monk can get it his damage increases by an average of 2.5. At this point the fighter has six points of base attack bonus as compared with the monks four. If the fighter is using a two handed weapon and the other feats and stats are the same as far as damage and to hit go then their damages are now the same plus the extra half of strength bonus for the fighter. The fighter can power attack for one point of damage and be ahead in one point of attack and two points of damage plus the extra half from strength. The fighter can power attack for two points and be equal in attack bonus but be four points ahead in damage pluse the extra half from strength. The fighter can all out power attack to take out low armor class or high damage reduction or hardness targets while the monk is stuck doing the same damage. At level twenty for each the fighter is ahead by five points of base attack bonus and eleven points of average damage behind at base minus the extra half from strength which could come close to canceling this out plus the monk spends three times as much for his enhancement bonuses and cannot have special enhancements plus the fighter can have his weapon specialization and greater weapon specialization and he can turn a large amount of to hit bonus into damage at whim. From this it looks like any monk who wishes to do damage even remotely comparable to the fighter, but still much less, really has only this single option while the fighter has many. To me that still puts the fighter way ahead with the monk behind and the fighter isnt the king of damage anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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