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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8619561" data-attributes="member: 6788736">They have everything to do with the discussion because they're BOG standard 5th level single classed PCs with nothing special or broken or fancy about them.You already moved 30' to get to melee range this turn, so you're not moving far. I also have a Bow, and am actually better with it than my sword, so it's a moot point.Err... I didnt action surge till turn 3 or 4 when your shield spells were burnt out.And a 1 in 3, followed by another 1 in 3 means statistically speaking, 1 attack should actually hit. A 36 percent chance, followed up by another 36 percent chance generates a much higher probability of a successful attack landing than does  your singular 45 percent hit chance (with a slight possibility that both hit).I play the odds. My average d8 roll is 4.5, so I never use precise strike unless I am no more than 4 away from your AC.Accordingly Precise attack is only used in one of two circumstances:1) When I miss your base AC of 16 by 4 or less. So (with the Bow at +7) it's used on base D20 rolls of 5-8. And every attack roll has a a 64 percent chance of generating a roll of at least 5 (presuming disadvantage).You would presumably cancel that out with shield, but that's OK. You have 2 x shields, and I have 4 x superiority dice.2) If shield has already been used, or if my attack roll dice come up in the 10-13 range (for a final attack roll of 17-20) - which happens at least 30 percent of the time with disadvantage - I also use a sup dice, because I either am (or am likely to be) aiming to hit AC 21.I factored bad rolling by me in the first 2 turns, so I only hit once on turn one (that you negated with shield) and on turn 2 I had to use a precise strike just to land a hit at all (that you also negated with shield).So on turn 1 I only managed a single attack roll of 9 (from two attempts, which I had a roughly 2/3 chance of getting factoring in two attacks) and on turn 2 I managed a single attack roll in the 10-13 range from two attempts (which I had a 50 percent chance of getting, factoring in two attacks), that you managed to successfully negate with shield anyway (so I also rolled poorly on the d8, getting a 1-3 on the D8, and still not high enough to hit your shielded AC).Regardless of my poor rolling, you're totally undamaged at the end of my turn 2, and out of spell slots, and with 1 ki point remaining.No it didnt. Plate, AC 18. I use a Greatsword and Bow.</blockquote>

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