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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8766443" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Thanks for explaing the math on improved Smite.The statistical issue with smites at high levels is landing all that damage.  To illustrate an extreme example of what I am talking about - Put against a random foe at a random time 100 attacks that do 1 hp of damage each are going to deal much more damage than 1 attack that deals 100hps damage.  The big attack will not do full damage unless it occurs against an enemy that has over 100 hps while the enemy has over 100hps.Your 10 smites do 9, 13.5 and 18 damage on top of weapon damage respectively.  You are attacking 48 times and presumably hitting about 32 times.  Some of those time the enemy is going to have 2 hps left.  To put it in extreme terms - If your day consists of 6 fights against 6 adult dragons that day, sure all those dice will land (if you use them early and don't crit fish).  At the other extreme if your day consists of clearing 150 Orcs from their stronghold none of the 3rd-level dice will land full damage and most of the 2nd and some of the 1st won't either.At 6 fights you can use them all, but they won't all necessarily do full damage.  I can calculate this explicitly given an enemy and a strategy for use.At 3 fights a day you actually will run into problems using them all some times.</blockquote>