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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 5180606" data-attributes="member: 12386">Hammer Rythm simply isn't as awesome for avengers as it is for everybody else.  The loss of the High Crit property does hurt- I will certainly grant that.  But- at least until you get out of the heroic tier- it's only slightly better on 1[w] attacks due to high crit and it falls behind on 2[w] and 3[w] attacks.  The Mordenkrad also has the fairly subtle advantage of a much, much lower standard deviation when you actually hit something: 1st level avenger with 18 wis, Mordenkrad, swinging against a 3rd level skirmisher/lurker: Hits on an 11+ for 12 damage average (1[w]).1[w]:39/400: crit for 16261/400: hit for 12100/400: missWeighted Average Damage: 1.56 + 7.83 = 9.39 DPRWeighted Average Hit Damage: 12.52, Hit sigma = 2.301st level avenger with 18 wis, Executioner, swinging against a 3rd level skirmisher/lurker: Hits on an 11+ for 11.5 damage average.1[w]:39/400: crit for 21.5261/400: hit for 11.5100/400: missWeighted Average Damage: 2.10 + 7.50 = 9.60 DPRWeighted Average Hit Damage: 12.8, Hit Sigma = 4.42The average hit damage is the amount that you connect for when you actually connect- it's not taking into account all the times you whiff for 0 damage.  I calculated it to show the big difference in standard deviation.  A pretty large chunk of the axe's damage is tied up in critical hits- fortunate rolls that you wont get more than a couple times a session, if that often.Though the axe connects for slightly higher average damage (2.2% higher, to be precise), it also connects for sub-par damage significantly more often- it hits for less than 10 damage 26.1% of the time, while the hammer hits for less than 10 only 10.4% of the time.  I judge the hammer's consistency, along with its damage advantage on hits with 2+[w], to be superior to the axe's meager average damage advantage on 1[w] hits.  This will change in paragon tier, with epic tier bringing the two into slightly better parity.What weapon feats would you judge to make the executioner's axe better later on?</blockquote>

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