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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3393310" data-attributes="member: 3929">Power Attack, by way of reducing the probability of hitting, restricts itself.You might power attack for 20 and have a huge potential damage bonus, but the liklihood of that hit happening is miniscule. So folks will Power Attack for what they feel is a reasonable amount to gain a nice bonus while only taking a modest risk that they will miss.This is not the case for Combat Expertise, because instead of reducing the chance to hit for a bonus to damage that will likely only affect one enemy, you reduce the chance for every enemy that attacks you to hit. In this way, every additional bonus to AC is as valuable as the last.Power Attack suffers from diminishing returns because it reduces your chance to hit. The offensive bonus is mitigated by an offensive drawback.Combat Expertise does not suffer because it only improves your ability to defend yourself. The defensive bonus is mitigated by an offensive drawback.---Of course, this argument would be lost on the FPAATT folks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>