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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkthorne" data-source="post: 4150192" data-attributes="member: 60783"><p>To me both visually and functionally I like 4E version better. Visually your swing has just enough force to carry through slicing into the next target. You are not cutting deep into either target doing massive damage, just enough to damage both. In 3x you HAD to drop your target (inferring massive damage being done) to get a chance possibly hit an adjacent target. So you have to make sure you are the one doing the killing blow which is much easier said than done, followed up by hoping you hit the next target. Now if you add great cleave to the mix unless you are doing GOBS (yes it's a technical term) and fighting enemies w/o decent hp it doesn't work at all. Also even in 4E if you are targeting the weaker target say something with 60hp and the BBEG has 200hp. Your main hit (say 10dam) will do about 15% of the hp of the smaller target while doing (3hp) 1% of carryover to the BBEG (this would work about 7 times with dead smaller target and 7% of the BBEG). While the way most people view how it should function (from my pov) woulld be the 10dam to the BBEG about 3% and (3hp) 5% to the smaller target. If he alone does 60% to the BBEG which will may be enough to drop it with the rest of the groups' damage the smaller target if dumb enough to stay put would be dead.</p></blockquote><p></p>