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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3593110" data-attributes="member: 3929">Well, I don't know about that. Certainly it's more situationally selective than Power Attack...Assume: -1 attack is worth +2 damage.So what is -5 to your attack worth? 10 damage... which is about 3d6, on average. Given our assumption, a person should generally be indifferent to -5 attack and +3d6 damage; does Slashing Fury produce a +3d6 benefit for your sacrifice of -5?If the expected damage from your second attack, which will likely not hit, but may hit hard, is 10, then it is worth taking the -5 to attack on your original hit.Unfortunately, a -10 to attack is going to reduce your to-hit chance by ~50%: this will do unpleasant things to your expected damage. So you'll want to use it when you can manipulate circumstance bonuses, or the AC of the target is so low that you're going to hit regardless, or the AC of the target is so high you'd only hit on a 20 anyway.</blockquote>