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<blockquote data-quote="NeoNick" data-source="post: 4393607" data-attributes="member: 72244"><p>I think Amnuxoll points to a very important game mechanichs fact. </p><p> </p><p>Me being an opter and wanting a /in my eyes/ beautiful charachter I early saw that I only liked the classes/builds that needs just two stats. In my opinion 90%+ of your attacs comes from your primary attack stat. And this game just got more combat intense for us /for some reason/, compared to D&D 3.5.</p><p> </p><p>For you who don't realize just how important a single +1 to attack can be, let me give an example. Assume that two chars are compared how well they perform in a single identical situiation. One of them took 18 in his primary attack stat, the other took 20. Now they find themselves fighting a really bad monster that have a very high AC. As it is, the 18-stat-char only hits on a rolled 20 and he never crits, and the 20-stat-char hits on a 19-20.</p><p> </p><p><strong>In this example the 20-stat-charachter would have more than DOUBLE the damage-per-round (dpr) compared to the 18-stat-char. </strong>(The "more than" comes from the fact that the 20-stat-char can crit, whereas the 18-stat-char cannot.)</p><p> </p><p>So depending on your own campaign (how often your DM throws high AC mobs at you) the RELATIVE difference in dpr between 18 and 20 in the primary stat can be quite big. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NeoNick, post: 4393607, member: 72244"] I think Amnuxoll points to a very important game mechanichs fact. Me being an opter and wanting a /in my eyes/ beautiful charachter I early saw that I only liked the classes/builds that needs just two stats. In my opinion 90%+ of your attacs comes from your primary attack stat. And this game just got more combat intense for us /for some reason/, compared to D&D 3.5. For you who don't realize just how important a single +1 to attack can be, let me give an example. Assume that two chars are compared how well they perform in a single identical situiation. One of them took 18 in his primary attack stat, the other took 20. Now they find themselves fighting a really bad monster that have a very high AC. As it is, the 18-stat-char only hits on a rolled 20 and he never crits, and the 20-stat-char hits on a 19-20. [B]In this example the 20-stat-charachter would have more than DOUBLE the damage-per-round (dpr) compared to the 18-stat-char. [/B](The "more than" comes from the fact that the 20-stat-char can crit, whereas the 18-stat-char cannot.) So depending on your own campaign (how often your DM throws high AC mobs at you) the RELATIVE difference in dpr between 18 and 20 in the primary stat can be quite big. :) [/QUOTE]
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