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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kraydak" data-source="post: 4262495" data-attributes="member: 12306">*If* your fighter is using a sword-and-board, then it will occasionally be useful to attack a secondary target in hopes of splashing onto your main one with Cleave.  Any 2-hander using fighter should have Reaping Strike, which largely invalidates the whole concept (unless the very high AC opponent is a minion).The key is that with a 1-hander, you are given up less [W] damage (on hits) and at a 50% hit rate on the low-AC guy you are doing the same damage to your desired target as Reaping Strike would on a miss.The situation will come up, but rarely enough that you might well only notice in retrospect.  In average-damage calculations, be *certain* to include criticals.  The tactic is only useful against very high AC opponents, and as such *most* of your hits would also be crits (go go removal of crit confirmation rolls...).  Note finally that if you are in a situation where using this tactic makes sense, you should probably be spending more mental effort on Running Away.</blockquote>