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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theNater" data-source="post: 4378256" data-attributes="member: 62560">Go back to considering Magic Missile to be one round's worth of damage.  So, at level 30, one round's worth of damage is about 12.5(25 divided by 2 to account for the chance of missing).  6d6 averages to 21.  So a successful crit is nearly two rounds worth of damage.  Let's cut it back to one round, on the grounds that sometimes we won't get to apply full damage because we killed the enemy with it.  Under that assumption, every critical hit shortens the combat by at least one round.  Given that the length of combats is what we're discussing here, that is not insignificant.Meteor Swarm does an average of 43 damage, as you say.  But a character only gets to use it once per day.  If we divide it up over a day with 40 rounds of combat, it's barely doing 1 damage per round.  Does that mean it is insignificant?</blockquote>