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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 2549120" data-attributes="member: 7859">Your analysis is good Storm Raven except for a glaive wielder is going to have many of the same feats as a spike chain wielder,(combat reflexes, improved trip, etc, etc), but the glaive wielder is going to have to at some point drop the nice damage glaive and draw some other weapon, because the monster ARE GOING to get adjacent to him or her.Sure, sure armor spikes can take care of having a weapon handy, but I wonder if one averaged the damage of armor spikes and the glaive would the damage curve look something like that of a spike chain.Spike chain is certainly not overpowered, for the most part most exotic weapons are not picked by players because feats are precious.  As has been pointed out before a spike chain works best in the hands of a high strength fighter, despite the agility of the weapon.  I have seen a spiked chain wielder with cleave wreck havoc on formations of monsters,  using coordinated tactics with the other tanks to get the killing blow on a front rank monster and then using cleave to hit second ranks.</blockquote>