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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8128651" data-attributes="member: 58197">Ah - you are correct, my numbers were off, although my actual mistake was forgetting to subtract out the base d6 weapon damage from Sneak Attack. I was using 5d6 instead of 4d6. Adjusting for that, I get 21.38. Unless I made another mistake somewhere...For the base weapon damage, with a 65% chance to hit (60% regular hit, 5% crit):Main hand damage: 1d6+5 (8.5) on a normal hit, 2d6+5 (12) on a crit --> 5.7 DPROff-hand damage: 1d6 (3.5) on a normal hit, 2d6 (7) on a crit --> 2.45 DPRTotal: 8.15 DPR from weaponsThe Sneak Attack damage is a little trickier. I assume that the rogue's attacks are sequential and they will drop Sneak Attack on the first attack that hits (instead of holding out for a crit on attack #2, which would be, uh, poor strategy). So:Hit on first attack: 60% chanceCrit on first attack: 5% chanceMiss on first attack: 35% chance-- Miss on first attack, hit on second: 35% x 60% = 21% chance-- Miss on first attack, crit on second: 35% x 5% = 1.75% chanceAdding these up, there's an 81% (60 + 21) chance to get a regular Sneak Attack, and a 6.75% (5 + 1.75) chance to get a crit. Regular Sneak Attack damage is 4d6 (14), crit damage is 8d6 (28).(14 x 0.81) + (28 x 0.0675) = 11.34 + 1.89 = 13.23 DPR from Sneak Attack8.15 weapon DPR + 13.23 Sneak Attack DPR = 21.38 total DPRIt's fun when it happens, but not sure it's actually better tactically. A single attack, with big random damage spikes, loses more damage to overkill than multiple attacks with more consistent damage... I think. That's another batch of number-crunching and I have to work tomorrow. (And I just had to go back and fix yet another error where I doubled 14 and got 27, so clearly it is time to knock off for the evening.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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