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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 6821579" data-attributes="member: 59057">Because you have a formula, like savyomagy showed, that is dependend on 2 variables, so you can derive it and find out for which combination of those two variables you get zero. This is exactly when attack bonus + target number is 21. If you increase your attack bonus your target number decreases by 1, and so, if you are at 22 or above, you increase attack bonus. If you are below, you increase attack damage. This is always the best ratio you can get. If you are exactly at 21, it does not matter which you increase, because the damage gain is equal.Notice, that it does not tell you anything about your actual damage, only which is the better way to increase your damage if you have the choice between +1 to attack or damage. You generally want target number as low as possible and damage as high as possible. And if you have the choice between getting 21 or getting a number that is different from that, but target number lower and attack damage higher, you chose the latter.If your target number is very low however and your damage also low, you should maybe get a -5/+10 feat and look if you can get a bit more balanced stats. If your attack bonus and attack damage are well balanced, get +2 main stat instead.</blockquote>