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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 4001044" data-attributes="member: 59057">as pointed out: more than trash after Level 1 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />toughness gave you more hp than power attack gave you on damage... 3 hp compared to 0 and dodge gave you the same advantage as expertise without giving you -1 to attack...and expertise was a great feat. The improvement in 4e is that everything scales linear with level, BAB and Defense. So a +1 attack bonus stays usefull in 10th level as it is on first.Example: Attack bonus of +3 (16 str) vs AC 19 chainmail and large shield. Your chances to hit are 5/20, with weapon focus you have 6/20 so your chances to hit are improved by 20%!if you have an AB of +1 and attack vs fullplate and shield, (AC 21) you only hit at 20, with WF, you hit with 19 and 20 thats twice as often.in 3.x the problem is: at Level 10, your AB is 11 and the AC is still 21, so you hit with 10+ or 11/20. With WF you hit with 12/20 which is just a minor improvement of 9% more hits.In 4e AB is 6 and AC is 26 at LVL 10, so your WF still gives 20% more damage. (not considering crits)and dodge may reduce your damage taken in the same way, even if it still only gives a bonus of +1 to AC (but hopefully vs all enemies)combat casting however was trash in 3.5 since skillfocus concentration did the job nearly as well and was more versatile... only a mage with too much feats and not enough skillpoints could have invested in both...</blockquote>

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