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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2077028" data-attributes="member: 10993">I am not saying it's very difficult to do when you have the right feats, equipment and the right situation. I am just saying you have to get the right equipment and even then there are very few situations that it is useful.Just look at your Monster Manuals. How many monster's have weapons? My guess is just 25%-35% of the opponents you meet wield sunderable weapons.Of those monsters only a small percentage will it be worth it to sunder their weapons, say 10%-20%. You are not going to sunder an 1st lvl Orc warrior's greataxe, you would just attack and kill him instead. You are also not going to sunder the evil barbarian's greataxe+2, because doing that would mean losing a big part of your treasure.Even then, you have to succeed on the opposed attack roll, which is probably likely, but hardly garantueed, let's say that you win in 75% of all cases.Then it must be useful as well. If your opponent can just draw a backup weapon or fight on with his natural weapons, you have probably gained only an insignificant advantage by giving up a significant resource: your attack. I guess that in 50% of the cases the advantage of sundering is not really significant.So, when you multiply the probabilities you probably will make a truly useful Sunder attack, one that makes a significant difference, in about 2.5% of your battles. That alone does not justify spending a feat on. If you get Combat Brute as well, sundering starts to becomes a worthwhile option, but only for the specialists.  Is sundering weapons so easy as to be unbelievable? Yes, I would say. Is it so easy that it is a viable combat option? Definitely no I would say.</blockquote>

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