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Can one of the lead designers of D&D please stand up and clarify "Rain of Blows"?
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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4661150" data-attributes="member: 43019"><p>If your hit chance is 50%, then your static bonuses need to be roughly equivalent to 3W (3W+staticx3 vs 6W+staticx2) to equate the encounter 3 to a good daily 9 from the ranger.</p><p></p><p>If your hit chance is higher (which is common, for a fighter), just multiply 2W+2static by the appropriate amount. 75% is a lot more common for a fighter who is likely to use the ability once he has combat advantage or a similar bonus, which means that 1.5W+1.5static needs to equate to 4W. </p><p></p><p>So 2.5W ~= 15, so static needs to be around 10.</p><p></p><p>Even at higher level, this power still outputs crazy damage - among other things a single crit (10% chance per extra attack) will recover you 6W right off the bat before even considering. So if you're comparing 2 5W attacks (fighter daily 29) to 3.5 1W attacks, you need to recover 6.5W (~42) from 1.5static and, say, 15% of a 39 crit, so static ~= 24 to equal the level 29 daily's damage potential. The 29 daily is restricted to two targets required (only 5W to one target), but it also does half damage on miss.</p><p></p><p>Rain of Blows _blows_ away No Mercy, the level 29 fighter daily that single targets for 7W.</p><p></p><p>I hope that the fact that level 3 encounter power compares to dailies for as long as you possess it is illustrative.</p><p></p><p>The real trick, of course, is to Force the Battle so that RoB does 2W each, _then_ go nuts with it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Over and over, if you're a demigod.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keterys, post: 4661150, member: 43019"] If your hit chance is 50%, then your static bonuses need to be roughly equivalent to 3W (3W+staticx3 vs 6W+staticx2) to equate the encounter 3 to a good daily 9 from the ranger. If your hit chance is higher (which is common, for a fighter), just multiply 2W+2static by the appropriate amount. 75% is a lot more common for a fighter who is likely to use the ability once he has combat advantage or a similar bonus, which means that 1.5W+1.5static needs to equate to 4W. So 2.5W ~= 15, so static needs to be around 10. Even at higher level, this power still outputs crazy damage - among other things a single crit (10% chance per extra attack) will recover you 6W right off the bat before even considering. So if you're comparing 2 5W attacks (fighter daily 29) to 3.5 1W attacks, you need to recover 6.5W (~42) from 1.5static and, say, 15% of a 39 crit, so static ~= 24 to equal the level 29 daily's damage potential. The 29 daily is restricted to two targets required (only 5W to one target), but it also does half damage on miss. Rain of Blows _blows_ away No Mercy, the level 29 fighter daily that single targets for 7W. I hope that the fact that level 3 encounter power compares to dailies for as long as you possess it is illustrative. The real trick, of course, is to Force the Battle so that RoB does 2W each, _then_ go nuts with it ;) Over and over, if you're a demigod. [/QUOTE]
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