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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7432942" data-attributes="member: 6775477">Great Weapon Mastery, in a vacuum, is only a moderately powerful feat. Against creatures that have high HP and low AC, it's amazing, but otherwise you risk missing, which overall lowers your dpr. The problem that many have is the various ways a character can mitigate the -5 attack penalty, such as from Bless, Advantage, Precision Attack, Magic Items, etc. The perception is that these allow the feat to deal greater damage than it should. I had a polearm master paladin with GWM in my last campaign, and while he was able to deal a lot of damage when he paired up with the raging Wolf Totem Barbarian, I felt that it was manageable. Sharpshooter is considered worse, however, because all three abilities work together. You can use it against a target with heavy cover at maximum range, and still only be at -5 to hit. Toss in the +2 from the Archery fighting style, and suddenly everyone is using Chewbacca's crossbow. I personally find the other two abilities to be more problematic than the -5/+10, but to each their own.</blockquote>