Improved Critical or Weapon Specialization?

[Mithril Man]

Well I understand that Weapon Specialization might be a better choice statistically, Improved Crit is more exciting--so I'm going to take that. The character wields a bastard sword--so the range is normal, but with Improved Crit it is 17-20...fun fun fun; too bad it ain't keen; maybe if I get a ton of cash I can have it enchanted as such.

Anyways, it is only another level until 9th when I get another feat anyways--and then I'll likely take weapon specialization.

 

[SpikeyFreak]

Wow, thanks for all the compliments.

Yeah, it took a long time to make my damage calculator, and I got help from people around here figuring out the formulas for some of the stuff.

Sometimes I do have a lot of free time while I'm at work. I'm a netwrok administrator for a mediu, sized company, so when everything is working right and there are no new projects, I have nothing to do.

Is there anything that you guys can think of that would make it better?

--Happy Spikey

 

[Psifon]

Spikey Rules!

You know spikey, if there were a second page or something where one could record the average damage of a weapon in a chart (vs several AC's) and then display it as a graph, that would be fantastic. Or even if there were just a standard chart of damage vs AC's from 14-30 or something, that let you save the data. I know Excell makes graphs, but I don't know how to do it. I could probably figure it out if I had a suite of data I could copy onto a second page.

Another idea would be average damage w/o iterative attacks in a similar chart of damage vs AC's. That way we could compare things like power lunge damage and whirlwind attack damage over various AC's

 

[SpikeyFreak]

Well, you can't really do what you are saying without using macros.

And to get the average damage for different ACs would require that entire table to calculate the damage for every AC.

You could do it with a macro, but I don't really want to put a macro in it because macros can have/be viruses, and I'd rather not mess with that.

If you really want to do that, you can go to the insert menu, choose worksheet, and then manually enter the info into the second sheet. Then you can just highlight the damage that you've entered and click the chart wizard button to make a chart.

CRGreathouse has a sheet that he uses that you could probably add to mine to do what you are thinking about doing (show dmg vs a variety of ACs, plus his has optiman power attack). You would have to email him about that though. All you would need to do is to add a worksheet to mine, copy CRGeathouse's into mine, then change the cells on his where you enter data to get the data from the appropriate cells on mine.

This/that conversation would be better suited to the software forum.

--Excel Journeyman Spikey

 

[Happiest_Sadist]

That addition wouldn't be really useful because the damage ratio dosn't change with AC until every hit is a threat. The number of critical hits per hit is equal to (number of threat numbers that will hit)/(20).

Ex a rapier will get crits 15% of the time generally, byt if you need 19 to hit, then it only gets crits 10%, if 20 then 5%.