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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Hamish" data-source="post: 5905340" data-attributes="member: 25321">I should say before I start that I think the character design you've got is pretty solid and we're just quibbling over details.Partly because Crippling Critical combined with staggering really cuts down on movement and lasts for a minute so can really negate their ability to get to your more vulnerable party members and bleed is useful for minor targets  Power attack at first level looks to make a difference between a 50% kill on a hit and maybe a 30% chance of a kill on a hit for the tougher CR critters. Put Cleave in at low levels and you've got a pretty reasonable chance of killing at least one opponent a round and a chance of killing 2 enemies in a round. Of course to get cleave you'd need to drop weapon focus to later levels which slows everything up.My rough calculations give you about a 1/3 chance of dropping an unharmed gnoll in a round with Falchion, cleave and power attack compared to about a 1/6 chance with your build.With just power attack instead of Combat Expertise you have a 1/4 chance of dropping a gnoll in a round.At 1st level I think you're better off doing the damage than getting too fancy with trip simply because of the low number of hits it takes to kill things. I'm not sure how well it holds at 2nd and 3rd level though so your build still might be better for most of low levels.In any case more options and more fun can often trump more power anyway and at worst your build is a little bit worse.</blockquote>

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