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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6652823" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>That's not what I meant by "overkill" in this context. What I mean is that calculating DPR is only a rough guide to "how long does it take to kill this foe". If you do 20 HP of damage twice against two different 11 HP targets, sure your DPR is 20 for that round, but you killed fewer foes than someone who did 12 HP against three 11 HP targets. Specifically, against hobgoblins a sniped arrow is guaranteed to kill them, but it usually takes two non-sniped arrows to kill them, so rather than focusing exclusively on DPR my analysis also touched on hit rates. Since hit rate was more than twice as good regular attacks, and regular attacks are more than half as good as sniped attacks, the hit rate analysis produces the same conclusions as the DPR analysis: not sniping the prone hobgoblins with -5/+10 is better. Just use regular attacks.</p></blockquote><p></p>