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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zurai" data-source="post: 3812050" data-attributes="member: 52324">There are 2 methods to gain crazy high damage with SGW.First, every AoO you "give up" (don't make an attack with, but still expend) gives you a +4 to hit and +4 to damage against the AoO provoker on the next round. That +4 to hit translates directly into another +4 to damage using Power Attack, which means that every single attack you make in the following round gains +8 damage per AoO you give up. Say you're a Warblade with 3 attacks per round, dealing an average of, say, 15 damage each. The critter you're fighting provokes 2 AoOs from you and you give up those AoOs using SGW. On your next round, you're doing 48 more damage (whereas if you'd taken those AoOs, you'd only have done 30 more damage). Second, you can use one round of attacks as touch attacks that deal no damage. For every touch attack that hits, you deal +5 damage to the target on your next round. This is a similar situation to the first, and can actually be combined with it to get truly obscene.To go beyond obscene, add the Avalanche of Blades, Raging Mongoose, and Time Stands Still manuevers and Combat Reflexes with either Robilar's Gambit or Karmic Strike feats.The reason I call it out as a great option for sword-and-board Warblades is that the lower your expected damage per attack, the better both those options become.</blockquote>