Weapon Focus: Per Attack or Per [W]?

[Kaodi]

So, quick question: Does the bonus damage from Weapon Focus apply to each attack, or does it apply to each roll for a weapon? To illustrate, is it +1 to basic attacks, +3 to Brute Strike, and +7 to No Mercy, or just +1 to all of these?

 

[hipnotode]

im pretty sure it applies per attack, like mod damage and enhancement damage ect.

 

[Obryn]

So, quick question: Does the bonus damage from Weapon Focus apply to each attack, or does it apply to each roll for a weapon? To illustrate, is it +1 to basic attacks, +3 to Brute Strike, and +7 to No Mercy, or just +1 to all of these?

It's per Damage Roll.

No matter how many [w]'s you are rolling, it's still one damage roll.

-O

 

[keterys]

If this were in house rules, I'd totally encourage it to be per W though I'd _love_ to see better support for big-W attacks over multiattacks.

 

[hipnotode]

If this were in house rules, I'd totally encourage it to be per W though I'd _love_ to see better support for big-W attacks over multiattacks.

would be a little unfair to implement powers...

 

[keterys]

I'd love to see support for big-dice implement attacks over multiattacks, too. Implement Focus is a whole different feat though.

Twin Strike being better than Godstrike is a system flaw, and makes me sad. But alas, increasingly off topic.

 

[BobTheNob]

I'd love to see support for big-dice implement attacks over multiattacks, too. Implement Focus is a whole different feat though.

Twin Strike being better than Godstrike is a system flaw, and makes me sad. But alas, increasingly off topic.

Not off point though. Twin strike remains to this day my greatest disappointment with 4e (or at least the most illustrative of the superiority of multi attack over big attack) and the idea that bonus's could apply to each dice of an attack is really interesting. Couldn't imagine re-balancing for it (eep) but its ideas like this that get me thinking.

 

[Incenjucar]

I could see a feat that specifically gives you a +1 to damage per [W] of an attack over 1. It would scale rather naturally.

 

[Mentat55]

I could see a feat that specifically gives you a +1 to damage per [W] of an attack over 1. It would scale rather naturally.

That would actually be a pretty cool way to do Power Attack, instead of the current feat.

 

[Obryn]

In my hypothetical 4.5, I'd like powers' damage expressions to be more explicit, like...

1[W]+Str+E+Misc

...with E being the enhancement of the weapon you're using, and Misc being the feats &etc you're adding to it. In addition to nuking the divide between "extra damage" and "damage", and eliminating confusion about powers like Hellish Rebuke, it would allow for greater control of multi-attack damage.

-O