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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7438121" data-attributes="member: 6795602">It's weird you ask me how to prove it without resorting to specific-case scenarios and then you provide a specific case scenario.&nbsp; Anyways, the general principles that lead to this conclusion are fairly simple.1.&nbsp; Enemy HP tends to quickly outpace the amount of damage a PC will do in a single attack as PC's level.&nbsp; Why is this significant?&nbsp; Because the more trials (*attacks) you have before the enemy is defeated the less variance there will be in the number of turns required to defeat the enemy.&nbsp; This makes average damage be a very good predictor of how many rounds an enemy will last.&nbsp; 2.&nbsp; Killing monsters faster means they make less attacks against you.All that said, you can contrive a specific example that this general advice will not follow for but that's an &quot;any given Sunday&quot; type of example, not actually an argument about which option is better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 7438121, member: 6795602"] It's weird you ask me how to prove it without resorting to specific-case scenarios and then you provide a specific case scenario. Anyways, the general principles that lead to this conclusion are fairly simple. 1. Enemy HP tends to quickly outpace the amount of damage a PC will do in a single attack as PC's level. Why is this significant? Because the more trials (*attacks) you have before the enemy is defeated the less variance there will be in the number of turns required to defeat the enemy. This makes average damage be a very good predictor of how many rounds an enemy will last. 2. Killing monsters faster means they make less attacks against you. All that said, you can contrive a specific example that this general advice will not follow for but that's an "any given Sunday" type of example, not actually an argument about which option is better. [/QUOTE]

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