weapon finess

[DanMcS]

The other applicable feat is power attack: lets you turn skill (BAB) into damage.

The only "issue" with weapon finesse is that as it stands, the darn munchkin powergamers can't completely optimize their characters by using Dex for everything and ignoring Str. Which is hardly a bad issue to have. Anything that the munchkins say has issues is probably fine.

 

[Ranger REG]

Re: normal

I know that I was just hoping it was changed from STR\STR to DEX/DEX in 3.5

Personally, I prefer to increase the success of attack rather than increase the lethality of strike provided by your higher Dexterity than your lower Strength. IMHO, that is what Finesse means to me.

Anything else would be a precision strike and that is probably another feat (perhaps using Weapon Finesse as a prereq). Of course, one could argue that such a special attack ability should apply to other Dex-based weapons, like say a bow.