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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 1815983" data-attributes="member: 12680">I have wondered that myself, but I think that it might be due to mathematics.  The more damage you do with each hit the less favorable it is to risk missing and doing no damage at all.  Therefore if two handed weapons got a 1:1, it rarely becomes beneficial to increase your miss chance by 5% for each 1 additional damage.  When you normally do 20 damage, doing an extra 1 point might not be worth the risk.  If you normally only did 10 damage, missing 5% more for an additional 10% damage isn't a bad trade.Anyway, I haven't really tried to crunch any numbers and maybe 1.5:1 would have been an adequate solution, but I'll leave it to others to prove my guess right or wrong.  Even at the 2:1 ratio the optimal power attack is usually only a couple of points.  At 1:1 I would guess the optimal power attack would usually be for nothing and 1.5:1 probably didn't give enough of a benefit for people to justify spending a feat on it.  Right now I think it is balanced quite nicely since it is rare to see people who can power attack at the optimal amount... rather you instead see people randomly guess while usually obtaining a small benefit, but sometimes getting worse averages than if they didn't power attack at all.</blockquote>