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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8460410" data-attributes="member: 29398">I was assuming against the same creature; and as 8 x 5 is only 40 and you're giving a 60-120 range above, I clearly undershot in my estimate.But my point remains, and I think remains valid: a 20% or 25% difference adds up.  A 90-point monster - the middle of your range above - is going to go down after 18 hits if you're doing 5 per hit but it'll take 23 hits (the last doing but 2 points to finish it off) at 4 per hit.And in the time it takes to get those extra five hits in your PC - or someone else's - could die.Don't get me wrong - this is way more analysis of this sort of thing than I usually care to do and not something I usually give much of an eff about.  All I'm trying to point out is that what might seem trivial sometimes isn't, when one looks deeper.</blockquote>