So I have been watching treantmonks videos and there's 3 issues I have noticed with it.
1. He's not comparing apples to apples. Eg he has compared a greatsword barbarian to a sword and board whatever.
He did both greatsword and longsword for multiple classes so you can compare how much damage loss a shield gives.
3. Assumptions made on hit rate and number of encounters.
Are consistent.
Which is what matters when comparing.
This penalizes spike builds. I'm not spiking in a real game unless odds are stacked in my favor more vs a white room.
Spike builds that have to wait are not that useful. You want the damage early, not late.
But if you have a better system, that's not overly complicated to calculate, please share your equations.
Maybe something like the number of turns it takes to deal X damage.
Also, we should adjust by level. Divide damage by monster HP to see if your keeping pace.
Eg smiting after a crit or using a guiding bolt if you're blessed or have advantage.
Feel free to calculate that.
So I'm suggesting we do some builds probably focusing on comparing good build to good build, same weapon to weapon.
His last video he clumped them into 2 hands (including dual wield), 1 hand, and ranged. Comparing each group.
More nuanced = more math.
Example greatsword 2d6+3 becomes 10 damage. Adding a smite lvl 1 2d8 becomes 19.
That's how everyone does it.
How often one can spike depends on a lot of variables white room doesn't account for. If required we can add average dame over some number of rounds/encounters.
He used half the spell slots for smites.
And divided the total over some number of rounds.
Also included 1 short rest.
10 damge per attack * 60% accuracy
+3 uses * 9 damage smites.
/ number of round (12?)
Level 4 feat. Shadow Touched (hex). If you're using scorching ray.......
think he missed that one.
Go ahead and calculate it the damage at each level as see how it compares.
set some required criteria and have a member submit a build for consideration.
Are you going to do the math if I post a build?
Because I can certainly post some.