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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 932911" data-attributes="member: 7859">Re: Re: Power attack bonus x2 for 2 hand wepsI had thought that at first but dont think that rule would apply here.  a 7 point power attack =14 points of extra damage from a two handed weapon which would be affected normally. Of course there is no clarification in the feat, I thought rules clarification was the reason de etre of 3.5.A couple of thoughts:1) People are still going to be str buffed, the effect is still quite good even at 1 minute a level, and big battle buffing will still come into play.  What changes  is the certainty of always being buffed, all the time, day or night.2)Didnt Piratecat retract that statement of stat buff items being more expensive,  Piratecats statement was meant to refer to skill boosting items.3)When I read the blurb about light weapons and powerattacking I was interpretting  the blurb to be refering to two handed use only. Ie using a dagger two handed will not result in doubled damage, but still yield the same to hit penality.To completely abolish power attack for small weapons is idiotic in my opinion if all things remain equal.  The halfling knife fighter would be doomed if small weapons can not be used to power attack,  power attack is what brought up the damage average for the halfling knife fighter,(from my experience a halfling knife fighter will almost always use at least a 2 point power attack, +1 from size, +1 from weapon focus, more if weapon finesse is selected).4) Does anyone have any statistical data revelaing the woefull nature of power attack in general?  I know some people claimed that at higher levels the reduction of your to hit bonus resulted overall in less damage as your extra attacks became more likely to miss.  Again from my experience this has not been the case, though my players admitedly use power attack only when it does not cut into their BAB.5) The designers of 3.5 clearly felt this was a wrong that needed addressing, perhaps the designers wanted Power Attack to be a feat that was used continually by two handed weapon wielders, ala two weapon fighting.</blockquote>

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