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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carpe DM" data-source="post: 3616495" data-attributes="member: 677">Ok -- trying to make a twinked character for my wife, a gypsy knife-thrower.  In true Smackdown fashion, I'm looking to be as abusive as possible within the *clear letter and spirit of the rules*.  No "start with a Girallon" builds, please.Also, early peaking is good -- that is, if you can get the major functionality of the character up and running by the 7-9th level range, fantastic.  Waiting until 18th level for a major payoff won't work --those are good for theorybuilds, but not for actual gaming builds.Right now, I'm thinking, as a crude start:Rogue5  Invisible Blade 2Master Thrower 1Invisible Blade 3Nightsong Enforcer 1Shadow Thief of Amn 1Now, to my question: I hear people talk about Master Thrower builds as being the be-all and end-all, but  I don't see it.  Is there *any* reason to go to MT5?Is it that they think Palm-throw doubles the sneak attack dice?  But precision damage is only applied once in situations where you have a single attack roll.Is it that Weak Spot has some application that I haven't really thought of?  Yes, touch attacks are awesome, but without power attack to make up the damage (and, indeed, no strength bonus) I just don't see MT5 playing a serious part.Has someone done the math on this?  Is weak spot worth the loss of +3d6 sneak attack?</blockquote>