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<blockquote data-quote="Bauglir" data-source="post: 1656490" data-attributes="member: 6982">I was thinking of the extra attack granted by frenzy for that second +42.This is certainly true, and further since the dextrous fighter makes more attacks he benefits from those bonuses more often.&nbsp; All this leads on to an excellent point you make later on - the dextrous fighter can make better use of non-scaling abilities (such as elemental enchantments, status attacks, or abilities which add damage such as weapon specialisation or sneak attack) due to sheer numbers of attacks.I'm definitely not going to try to tackle a proper analysis of the effects of these things on the balance between the str fighter and the dex fighter, there's just way too many variables.&nbsp; My feeling is that by exploiting special abilities the dextrous fighter can hold their own against the strength fighter.&nbsp; However many of these abilites are very situational - the wounding sword isn't so useful vs undead or constructs for example.&nbsp; The str fighter's sheer damage however works well against just about anything (and also proves more useful when DR is an issue)However since the criticals only multiply his very low base damage the benifits remain proportional as above.I fully agree (see above <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)*cough*Frenzied Berzerker*cough* <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(Only kidding - personally I find the FB to be massively broken, but of course YMMV <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)This is an interesting one (as it's never come up for me) but it seems dex can be used to resist an overrun.&nbsp; How does that one work then? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bauglir, post: 1656490, member: 6982"] I was thinking of the extra attack granted by frenzy for that second +42. This is certainly true, and further since the dextrous fighter makes more attacks he benefits from those bonuses more often. All this leads on to an excellent point you make later on - the dextrous fighter can make better use of non-scaling abilities (such as elemental enchantments, status attacks, or abilities which add damage such as weapon specialisation or sneak attack) due to sheer numbers of attacks. I'm definitely not going to try to tackle a proper analysis of the effects of these things on the balance between the str fighter and the dex fighter, there's just way too many variables. My feeling is that by exploiting special abilities the dextrous fighter can hold their own against the strength fighter. However many of these abilites are very situational - the wounding sword isn't so useful vs undead or constructs for example. The str fighter's sheer damage however works well against just about anything (and also proves more useful when DR is an issue) However since the criticals only multiply his very low base damage the benifits remain proportional as above. I fully agree (see above :)) *cough*Frenzied Berzerker*cough* ;) (Only kidding - personally I find the FB to be massively broken, but of course YMMV :)) This is an interesting one (as it's never come up for me) but it seems dex can be used to resist an overrun. How does that one work then? :) [/QUOTE]

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