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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8686027" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Yes, using an action to grant advantage once to one attack is generally a bad move, except if the attack you’re granting it to does enough damage more than your own attack would have done to create a net gain in expected damage output (such as the Kobold helping the ogre).I disagree. Turning a 55% chance to hit into a 79.75% chance to hit is a significant boost. Turning a 15% chance to hit into a 27.75% chance to hit is less useful, but it’s better than a +2 to hit, which itself is nothing to sneeze at. In the probably most-typical case of a 65% chance to hit, advantage increases it to 87.75%, which is better than a +4 to hit! Obviously you don’t need the boost as much in that case, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. And, this is all only considering hit chance. Another often-overlooked benefit of advantage is that it doubles your chance to crit (or slightly less than doubles it for a Champion fighter who crits on a 19+).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8686027, member: 6779196"] Yes, using an action to grant advantage once to one attack is generally a bad move, except if the attack you’re granting it to does enough damage more than your own attack would have done to create a net gain in expected damage output (such as the Kobold helping the ogre). I disagree. Turning a 55% chance to hit into a 79.75% chance to hit is a significant boost. Turning a 15% chance to hit into a 27.75% chance to hit is less useful, but it’s better than a +2 to hit, which itself is nothing to sneeze at. In the probably most-typical case of a 65% chance to hit, advantage increases it to 87.75%, which is better than a +4 to hit! Obviously you don’t need the boost as much in that case, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. And, this is all only considering hit chance. Another often-overlooked benefit of advantage is that it doubles your chance to crit (or slightly less than doubles it for a Champion fighter who crits on a 19+). [/QUOTE]

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