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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Llamas Notsheep" data-source="post: 4906061" data-attributes="member: 69006">Good call on improved armor of faith.I'm firmly of the belief that getting hit for an extra 5 damage is never a good idea unless you have damage resist, though.  100% of (non-minion) monsters around my level have more HP than I do, and 100% of them do more than 5 damage on a hit.  Our party has one warlord, meaning two encounter heals.  Running around and getting whacked 3 times for probably ~10 damage per hit isn't worth it.  If you can run through a cloud of minions and just take 5 damage a pop, great.  But usually that isn't the case.Basically, in my mind, the censure of retribution is an added bonus, but the double roll is the actual damage pumping feature of the retvenger.As for power attack, it's actually the largest damage boost from a single feat an avenger can get.  With a +10 static damage bonus (what I currently have) it's around 3.5 DPR when hitting with a 10 (including the -2 from PA).  That's pretty standard.  It's not until it takes about a 15/17 to hit that it's no longer worthwhile.  Using bloodclaw (bumping it up to +19), it's useful up to 13/15 to hit, IIRC.More later, gotta pack up the laptop.. heading home from the in-laws' place.</blockquote>