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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 3899048" data-attributes="member: 5889">That's using the assumption that you should power attack all the time, which is completely bogus.Power Attack is useful in a variety of situations:1) Smashing through objects2) On a coup de grace for maximum assurance of death.3) Against mooks with crap AC, to assure death with a single swing and guarrantee cleaves.4) When a creature's AC has been lowered, or my attacks have been increased (prone, flatfooted vs big spell buffs to attack rolls).5) Combined with mounted combat, lance charging, etc.6) Vs a guy with heavy DR.7) Vs a guy where only a 20 can hit anyway.People are under the impression that for power attack to be useful it has to be good on every swing, and that's certainly not true of most feats in the game, but its very useful in certain situations.Further, while mechanically PA is not always good to use, it does have a huge cinematic factor. As others have mentioned, you don't always remember the misses, but you will tell stories about the time you did 200+ damage to a BBEG with a single swing and took him out.If doing the math on PA slows your game down, then stop doing the math<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Just pick a number and ride with it.</blockquote>