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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6519476" data-attributes="member: 5834">You should be more accurate. You do less damage against AC 22. Not all the time. AC 22 is a rare AC to say the least.My experience is the fighter in our group uses it all the time save versus the Legendary, end game creatures. It is a big damage boost. So just analyzing it for AC 22 isn't telling the whole story. Even with a 25 str and +3 greatsword doing 22 damage, +10 damage is a 45% raw damage increase that boosts damage the lower the AC gets. That is a huge damage boost. If you could boost each of your hits by 45%, wouldn't you do it? In our group the fighter uses it nearly every encounter when ACs are in the 14 to 16 range, a quite common AC. He's only level 10. Great Weapon Master is a big deal. It allows the martials to spike damage more than any other class.Does your analysis take into account how it interacts with abilities like Feinting Attack or Oath of Enmity? Those abilities martials use on the Legendary Creatures with higher ACs to use Great Weapon Master effectively. So martials use Great Weapon Master easily on trash with lower ACs and use it on Legendary Creatures with special abilities. Math analysis doesn't do how easy it is to use justice. Then there is even the occasional use of Inspiration or Bardic Inspiration that can boost hit chances as well.</blockquote>