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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 4310299" data-attributes="member: 1457">Taking the indent into account, that's apparently what it says. If you hit, everything that's after or indented below "hit" applies. So you make two attacks. For each attack: if you hit, you make a secondary attack. Here're the rules on secondary attacks:Compare Rain of Blows to, for example, Devastation's Wake (p 84), or Fangs of Steel (p 84). Those secondary attacks only take place on a hit; you can tell because they're indented. Sudden Strike (p 106) has its secondary attack under Effect, so you get it even if you miss with the primary.On the other hand, look at Powerful Faith on p 99. The miss says that you don't get a secondary attack, yet the secondary attack is indented under Miss. Curious... looks like the author of the fighter was not the author of the paladin, since apparently they use different formatting. <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=":)" /> Curiouser still: the ranger uses a third type of formatting. For all the ranger double attacks, the terminology is: "X vs Y, two attacks". And for damage, the terminology is "Z[w] damage per attack."I mean, look at the power Two-Wolf Pounce. It's kind of similar to Rain of Blows, but uses completely different language and formatting.Very confusing. Since comparing powers across classes doesn't really work, I think the best clues are other fighter powers. Specifically, the powers on the same page as Rain of Blows. Looking at them, it's obvious that the placement of the rules for "Weapon" is deliberate. Take Dance of Steel, for example. That Slow effect only kicks in on a hit. How can you tell? It's indented under "Hit". Compare to Armor Piercing Thrust, which references the Weapon bit both before and after the hit.So, using that format, if the secondary attack was intended to be a single extra attack conditional on the weapon used, it would have been listed above the Hit, or on it's own unindented line.Conclusion: rain of blows gives two attacks. If you hit with one and you're wielding one of the listed weapons, you get to make a secondary attack. Hit with both, make two secondary attacks.</blockquote>

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