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<blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 1391708" data-attributes="member: 12680">That isn't exactly true about it making a difference only 2% of the time.&nbsp; You decided to ignore power attack in your formulas and having a +4 to confirm a critical can change the optimal power attack.&nbsp; So even if it only helps the confirmation 20% of the time on 10% of your hits, the fact that it can change your power attack means it still makes a difference on the attacks that you would confirm anyway or where you didn't even score a crit.Also, because you ignored power attack you said that it helps none at all where you automatically hit or miss regardless of power critical.&nbsp; When you use power attack, you usually lower your to-hit chance so that you no longer automatically hit so that comes up very seldom.&nbsp; Also, your calculations of an average of one point more damage per hit also changes with power attack.&nbsp; Power attack makes the criticals even more beneficial.It is probably also important to say that while in theory, power critical can have a big impact in the amount of damage with optimal use of power attack, power attack is very hard to optimize during a fight.&nbsp; I see the feat as being nice.&nbsp; Not as good as GWS, but probably about equivalent to Weapon Focus.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lamoni, post: 1391708, member: 12680"] That isn't exactly true about it making a difference only 2% of the time. You decided to ignore power attack in your formulas and having a +4 to confirm a critical can change the optimal power attack. So even if it only helps the confirmation 20% of the time on 10% of your hits, the fact that it can change your power attack means it still makes a difference on the attacks that you would confirm anyway or where you didn't even score a crit. Also, because you ignored power attack you said that it helps none at all where you automatically hit or miss regardless of power critical. When you use power attack, you usually lower your to-hit chance so that you no longer automatically hit so that comes up very seldom. Also, your calculations of an average of one point more damage per hit also changes with power attack. Power attack makes the criticals even more beneficial. It is probably also important to say that while in theory, power critical can have a big impact in the amount of damage with optimal use of power attack, power attack is very hard to optimize during a fight. I see the feat as being nice. Not as good as GWS, but probably about equivalent to Weapon Focus. [/QUOTE]

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