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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 7234905" data-attributes="member: 6785802">I miscalculated how useful Precision is. It's not like I haven't done these calculations before, but I messed up in a previous post. I said that using Precision when you miss by 4 or less means you'll hit 70% of the time with your d10 maneuver die. This is only true if you miss by exactly four. In fact, you'll hit 85% of the time, on average. If you miss by 1, for example, you'll always hit when you use your maneuver die. Since you're using Precision 20% of the time your overall chance to hit increases by 17%.This changes the chance to hit for a GWM fighter to:65% (base) - 25% (GWM) + 17% (Precision) = 57%.Also, if you care to come up with how often you think a GWM fighter gets his bonus action attack from dropping a foe to 0, consider the following. A level 11 Battlemaster will not crit at least once 85.7% of the time. The 85.7% of the time he doesn't crit each of his attacks do 12.13 damage.Max HP and current HP of a foe varies wildly, but if I had a feature that gave me a bonus attack if I dropped a foe to zero I'd always attack the foe with the lowest HP (adjusted by hit probability). E.g., if I were a 3rd level variant human with GWM facing goblins and an ogre I'd always, always, always attack the goblins and I wouldn't even use the -5/+10 part. One regular hit will drop them. Then I'd take my free attack on the ogre.That being said, let's assume our 11th level Battlemaster is, with his buddies, facing some CR 5 creatures. They average about 100 HP. So a very rough estimate is our Battlemaster drops a foe 12.13% of the time (because he's doing 12.13 damage per attack on our 100 HP foe). In a round where he doesn't crit he has a 32.16% chance of dropping at least one foe. This 32.16% chance occurs on the 85.7% of rounds without a crit or 27.56% of the time. Add this to the 14.3% chance of getting at least one critical and our Battlemaster gets a bonus attack 41.86% of the time.This yields average damage for our GWM friend of 46.88. This assumes you also use Precision attack on your bonus action attack.</blockquote>

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