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<blockquote data-quote="The_Furious_Puffin" data-source="post: 6889404" data-attributes="member: 11831"><p>It's also totally critical to being an effective melee fighter in 5E to consistently use your bonus action to attack. Every Bezerker is going to need to take one of those other approaches because you need it in the other 3-6 fights every day you don't use Frenzy!</p><p></p><p>It's a one-two punch</p><p></p><p>* Exhaustion is a real kick in the teeth</p><p>* You need to have another bonus action attack source anyway, so it's not like Frenzy replaces the need to take great weapon master!</p><p></p><p>Basically with a Totem warrior you're looking at Polearm Master + Wolf/Bear Totem vs Frenzy + Great Weapon Master. The completely dumb thing about that is, say you use Frenzy correctly 2.5 fights every adventuring day, and the adventuring day has an average of 7 fights (mid point of the 6-8 balance threshold). Fight duration 4 rounds as per assumptions.</p><p></p><p>So let's JUST look at bonus attacks because that's really what's this is about. In a typical day the Bezerker gets:</p><p></p><p>10 bonus attacks from Bezerk + 1 from critting with GWM plus 4 from dropping people. Total of 15, and each one does 3 damage mroe than a bonus attack from Polearm Master.</p><p></p><p>This nets you 30-45 damage over Polearm master for those 18 bonus attacks because a bigger dice and rerolling on those dice. Nice. </p><p></p><p>Polearm Master on the other hand, makes a bonus attack every round PLUS gets the triggered bonus attacks. That's 28 to start with, but we get the bonus attacks as a reaction! This is yooge, and is probably worth approximately another 14 bonus attacks over the course of a day. </p><p></p><p>So that's 24 attacks that the that the Bezerker doesn't get. 10 are d4+stat and 14 are full weapon damage. This is easily going to give more damage than the Bezerker's.</p><p></p><p>Now, that damage is more spread out and harder to dump into the BBEG - but over a 6-8 encounter day, constant DPR matters more than a big nova and that's not even considering the totem power!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The_Furious_Puffin, post: 6889404, member: 11831"] It's also totally critical to being an effective melee fighter in 5E to consistently use your bonus action to attack. Every Bezerker is going to need to take one of those other approaches because you need it in the other 3-6 fights every day you don't use Frenzy! It's a one-two punch * Exhaustion is a real kick in the teeth * You need to have another bonus action attack source anyway, so it's not like Frenzy replaces the need to take great weapon master! Basically with a Totem warrior you're looking at Polearm Master + Wolf/Bear Totem vs Frenzy + Great Weapon Master. The completely dumb thing about that is, say you use Frenzy correctly 2.5 fights every adventuring day, and the adventuring day has an average of 7 fights (mid point of the 6-8 balance threshold). Fight duration 4 rounds as per assumptions. So let's JUST look at bonus attacks because that's really what's this is about. In a typical day the Bezerker gets: 10 bonus attacks from Bezerk + 1 from critting with GWM plus 4 from dropping people. Total of 15, and each one does 3 damage mroe than a bonus attack from Polearm Master. This nets you 30-45 damage over Polearm master for those 18 bonus attacks because a bigger dice and rerolling on those dice. Nice. Polearm Master on the other hand, makes a bonus attack every round PLUS gets the triggered bonus attacks. That's 28 to start with, but we get the bonus attacks as a reaction! This is yooge, and is probably worth approximately another 14 bonus attacks over the course of a day. So that's 24 attacks that the that the Bezerker doesn't get. 10 are d4+stat and 14 are full weapon damage. This is easily going to give more damage than the Bezerker's. Now, that damage is more spread out and harder to dump into the BBEG - but over a 6-8 encounter day, constant DPR matters more than a big nova and that's not even considering the totem power! [/QUOTE]
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