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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8056346" data-attributes="member: 58197">Increasing the damage of your attack, while holding everything else the same, will almost always make you more effective in combat and will never* make you less effective. Overkill doesn't change that. This much is true.Overkill becomes a consideration when you are evaluating cost-benefits. Let's say you are a wizard deciding whether to throw a fireball at four ogres. Is that a good use of your 3rd-level spell slot? If the ogres are at full hit points, it's an excellent use. But if they are all heavily beaten down and close to death, it's... well, overkill. <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=":)" /> Unless it's deadly important to put them down right this instant, you're usually better off to throw an attack cantrip at one and let your fellow PCs clean up the rest.[Edited to swap in "damaged ogres" for "kobolds," to clarify the point.]*Except in some really incredibly bizarre scenario.</blockquote>