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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadeus" data-source="post: 108362" data-attributes="member: 1795">I've been playing a dwarven fighter since 3E was released.  He's up to a 12th-level character now (9th-level fighter/3rd-level Dwarven Defender) with a +12 BAB.  That means he gets 3 attacks a round.My question is, when you get to use your full attack action, how do you decide how much Power Attack to use toward your attack?  With my bonuses and everything, my dwarf typically has a +21/+16/+11 to hit doing 1d8+10 (+1d6 fire dmg) each hit.  I typically try to adjust my power attack so that my attacks have a 75%, 50%, and 25% chance to hit respectively.So for example, if I'm fighting something with AC 20, I'll use Power Attack +6 changing my attacks to +15/+10/+5.Is that over-conservative?  Is it better to just pummel them by using the max power attack or is there a better comination?</blockquote>