cignus_pfaccari
First Post
The typical complaint from people looking at avengers is that they don't do enough damage. I disagree, but, hey, Painful Oath gives them a nice bump you'd be silly to pass up.![]()
Based on my experience, they do. The (suboptimally-built) ranger outdamages my pursuit avenger.
The avenger hits about 50% more often or so, but the hits do significantly less damage per hit, more than enough that their damage output winds up being relatively low. Yes, they have extra-damage abilities, but those are either fairly low-output (Unity) or occur at the DM's whim (Pursuit and Retribution).
Painful Oath gets their damage back up to where it's actually competitive and/or respectable.
The best part is referring to the extra damage as being gamma radiation (being both radiant and necrotic).
Brad