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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 7237825" data-attributes="member: 93631">I know you said you don't care about &quot;at-will,&quot; but just as a baseline and foregoing the UA stuff, a 5th-level AT with booming blade and an owl is doing 22.5 DPR (27 DPR if Cunning Action nets booming blade rider damage half the time). He's using zero resources (except owls, potentially), so he can pretty much do this all day. The DPR will scale up about +3 every other level, with booming blade bumps at 11th and 17th. Take variant human with Magic Initiate for booming blade and find familiar, and he's basically up and running at 2nd level when he gets Cunning Action.&nbsp; He also gets some spells and skills and stuff, but that's not really the point of the exercise. For comparison, a Reckless Attacking 5th-level barbarian with GWF (duh - he doesn't get GWFing...adjust down a nudge) and GWM is doing about 33 for the three fights he's raging and about 30 for the three fights when he's not, assuming he continues to use Reckless Attack without damage mitigation. He drops down to just under 19 DPR for those three fights if he doesn't. His damage doesn't scale as well as the ATs (unless/until he adds PAM!). ETA adjusted numbers without GWF: 30.8 raging/reckless, 28.2 reckless, 17.5 not reckless).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 7237825, member: 93631"] I know you said you don't care about "at-will," but just as a baseline and foregoing the UA stuff, a 5th-level AT with [I]booming blade[/I] and an owl is doing 22.5 DPR (27 DPR if Cunning Action nets [I]booming blade[/I] rider damage half the time). He's using zero resources (except owls, potentially), so he can pretty much do this all day. The DPR will scale up about +3 every other level, with [I]booming blade[/I] bumps at 11th and 17th. Take variant human with Magic Initiate for [I]booming blade[/I] and [I]find familiar[/I], and he's basically up and running at 2nd level when he gets Cunning Action. He also gets some spells and skills and stuff, but that's not really the point of the exercise. For comparison, a Reckless Attacking 5th-level barbarian with GWF (duh - he doesn't get GWFing...adjust down a nudge) and GWM is doing about 33 for the three fights he's raging and about 30 for the three fights when he's not, assuming he continues to use Reckless Attack without damage mitigation. He drops down to just under 19 DPR for those three fights if he doesn't. His damage doesn't scale as well as the ATs (unless/until he adds PAM!). ETA adjusted numbers without GWF: 30.8 raging/reckless, 28.2 reckless, 17.5 not reckless). [/QUOTE]

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