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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crashy75" data-source="post: 4446356" data-attributes="member: 11017">You are correct.  I had forgotten that.  Once we get into weapon mastery territory, this bonus becomes larger, though ultimately, it equals +2Y per 20 attacks.  So, at heroic tier, it equals 2 point per 20 rounds assuming you were only comparing weapons with one die difference.  It's not much, but these little things can add up if they're not all accounted for (and this makes more of a difference when one starts doing comparisons between a fighter with a greataxe and a rogue with a small blade).  Overall, I agree.  (Didn't check your math but to looks about right)  I think 1 handed weapons are, for the most part, balanced as long as you use the 'right' weapon for your class and powers.  Personally, I do think two handed weapons should be looked at a little closer, particularly when comparing the great axe to the two handed sword.  This has been done to death on the wizards boards (can't find the thread but it's in the house rules section called 'weapon damage and house rules regarding it' or some such.  If I come across it again, I'll link it.  Also, Nail has gotten me thinking about numerical values of different affects. I am going to add a couple of variants.  Let:X=The number of die rolled Z=Affect on a hit.  A quick formula for such an affect would be something like:N(XD)-XW+M= Z.  You have to subtract the damage from the extra hit to isolate the affect and see if the values are about equal.  I suspect (as has been reasoned but not specifically played out to my knowledge) that, in general N(XD)-XW+M< Z  I'm going to do a quick one to see how this plays out.  Lets take Healing Strike.  In this case, Z= A mark and a healing surge.  Assuming 50% accuracy, using the longsword and battleaxe and +5 Modifier to damage this becomes (after reduction):20 - 2(4.5)+5=Healing Surge+ Mark for one round.  Reduce further...6=Healing surge+ Mark for one round. Thanks for catching that LightPhoenix.  That does even things out a little more.  I’d still say that 6<A healing surge and a mark mostly because it’s much harder to heal than it is to inflict 6 points of damage.  YMMV however.  I’d still go with the longsword (or better, the bastard sword since you’ll probably have to spend a feat anyway).  This does get better in the higher die's favor if we were comparing lesser damaging weapons or the D was much different.  For example, if we were comparing the battleaxe to the dagger this would become:60 - 2(2.5)+5= Healing Surge +Mark for one round.    or...50=Healing surge +Mark for one round.  I'd say the battleaxe would win out there rather convincingly but, of course, it should.  Any weapon that has a (relative) D of 2 or more will probably 'win' with this power (barring m/c exceptions like a rogue or ranger that got this power via m/c).  Come to think of it, I wonder how the longsword would compare to the battleaxe...  Well, comparing two handed weapons to 1 handed weapons is (like everything else) much more complicated.  I'll leave that for another post if it comes up.</blockquote>

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