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<blockquote data-quote="Jion" data-source="post: 4343448" data-attributes="member: 21550">I'm not sure that's what he meant; in both 3e and 4e, you get better at attacking, but in 3e your damage was pretty much always the same, for every attack: weapon + strength + additional feat/item modifiers.&nbsp; In 4e, the damage done by your attack powers increases as you gain higher level powers - I think that's what he meant by better attacks.&nbsp; You'll have to change your thinking from one attack roll=one attack, as 4e combat is more abstract than that.&nbsp; As damage goes from 1[W] to 2[W] on up to 6[W] and 7[W], consider each [W] an attack, but you only rolled once for confirmation of hit.&nbsp; This took me some time to adjust to, as well.&nbsp; The basic philosophy in 3e was that fighters (and other non-caster classes) will deal more damage by the benefit of having more attack rolls, and thus chances to deal damage.In 4e, fighters, etc., deal more damage by dealing more damage.The difference is, to use your analogy, 3e Sam the contractor gets more chances to build more stairs as he gets better, but his second set is 20% less likely to be made.&nbsp; Sam in 4e is either successful at all of his stairs, or none of them, with one flat probability of success rate.A 4e character has a better chance of dealing the expected damage in a round than a 3e character does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jion, post: 4343448, member: 21550"] I'm not sure that's what he meant; in both 3e and 4e, you get better at [I]attacking[/I], but in 3e your damage was pretty much always the same, for every attack: weapon + strength + additional feat/item modifiers. In 4e, the damage done by your attack powers increases as you gain higher level powers - I think that's what he meant by better attacks. You'll have to change your thinking from one attack roll=one attack, as 4e combat is more abstract than that. As damage goes from 1[W] to 2[W] on up to 6[W] and 7[W], consider each [W] an attack, but you only rolled once for confirmation of hit. This took me some time to adjust to, as well. The basic philosophy in 3e was that fighters (and other non-caster classes) will deal more damage by the benefit of having more attack rolls, and thus chances to deal damage. In 4e, fighters, etc., deal more damage [B]by dealing more damage[/B]. The difference is, to use your analogy, 3e Sam the contractor gets more chances to build more stairs as he gets better, but his second set is 20% less likely to be made. Sam in 4e is either successful at all of his stairs, or none of them, with one flat probability of success rate. A 4e character has a better chance of dealing the expected damage in a round than a 3e character does. [/QUOTE]

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