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<blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 4949827" data-attributes="member: 59057">Ok, maybe you are right there...&nbsp;but on the other hand, it was more difficult to hit in 3.5 at lower levels at least (later it didn´t matte that much for fighters anyway), so when you connect, every point of damage can mean the difference between a one hit k.o. and 2 hits. And yes, in general higher crit chance was better than 20/x4 because it was more reliable.&nbsp;A combination of those two things made power attack more of an art than hard mathematiks, because even though the average damage function had a maximum, wasted damage and tresholds had to be taken into consideration.&nbsp;I really don´t know, how much power attack is worth in 4e, i guess its not so useful at heroic, but i can be wrong. Didn´t do the math. &nbsp;still i believe, 4 points of damage, when we speak about an average of 30 is no game breaker. So missing out 2 or 3 feats doesn´t matter that much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngeheuerLich, post: 4949827, member: 59057"] Ok, maybe you are right there... but on the other hand, it was more difficult to hit in 3.5 at lower levels at least (later it didn´t matte that much for fighters anyway), so when you connect, every point of damage can mean the difference between a one hit k.o. and 2 hits. And yes, in general higher crit chance was better than 20/x4 because it was more reliable. A combination of those two things made power attack more of an art than hard mathematiks, because even though the average damage function had a maximum, wasted damage and tresholds had to be taken into consideration. I really don´t know, how much power attack is worth in 4e, i guess its not so useful at heroic, but i can be wrong. Didn´t do the math. still i believe, 4 points of damage, when we speak about an average of 30 is no game breaker. So missing out 2 or 3 feats doesn´t matter that much. [/QUOTE]

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