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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 5337465" data-attributes="member: 9789">So thinking more about it, let's compare this to the current leader in (generic) pure-damage output:  radiant.  Radiant has a 100% chance to add 1x enhancement bonus damage.  Using 2d4 and 2d6 brutal 1 as our comparisons, carnage has a 44% and 36% chance of doing 2x enhancement bonus damage with a 1[W] attack.  Respectable, but still lower (except on some encounter powers and dailies that have higher than 1[W] damage).  And since carnage weapons are much cheaper (level 3 vs. level 5), you'd expect that to be balanced.Where this gets a little sticky is epic levels, where a 2[W] attack is your basic attack, and 3[W] - 6[W] attacks are your encounters and dailies.  If a 2[W] attack with a 2d4 is a 68% chance and a 2d6 brutal 1 is a 59%, that means you have a better than 50% chance to do twice the enhancement bonus vs. a 100% chance to do 1x the enhancement bonus.  On average, carnage becomes better.  And that's still not counting encounters and dailies, which you'll have more of as well.So:  playing the odds, carnage becomes a much better bet for generic average damage.  Granted:  this is only true for a limited set of weapons; a bastard sword, for example, will never be a good carnage weapon.  And granted, a radiant sword's radiant damage type is better for certain situations.  (In fact, other weapons can do more damage than radiant swords under certain situations.)  But for straight-up average damage, this seems to be the new best possible property for 2-handed weapons.</blockquote>

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