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<blockquote data-quote="shoak1" data-source="post: 6918784" data-attributes="member: 54380">Look CapnZapp, I line up w/you 90% on the feat issue, and would love to be proven wrong - but I think you are wrong on this.&nbsp; So please ponder, evaluate, and respond directly to this point and tell me what I am missing:Except in EXTREME situations, there will always be 5 pips on the d20 that miss BECAUSE GWM is turned on - they might be DIFFERENT pips when you are buffed, but they are still misses directly as a result of turning GWM on.&nbsp; That means that regardless of buffs, you ALWAYS lose 25% of your standard average damage EVERY TIME you utilize this feat - BUFFS OR NO BUFFS.&nbsp; AND - you never gain more than your chance to hit x10 extra damage to begin with.&nbsp; The idea that buff mitigation somehow changes this is therefore, unless I am missing something, a fallacy.&nbsp; Together, this means that on average, regardless of buffs, GWM gives you a maximum of +4 average damage, and even that is situational - namely when you are facing low ACs - otherwise it can be much lower or even more harmful to average damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shoak1, post: 6918784, member: 54380"] Look CapnZapp, I line up w/you 90% on the feat issue, and would love to be proven wrong - but I think you are wrong on this. So please ponder, evaluate, and respond directly to this point and tell me what I am missing: Except in EXTREME situations, there will always be 5 pips on the d20 that miss BECAUSE GWM is turned on - they might be DIFFERENT pips when you are buffed, but they are still misses directly as a result of turning GWM on. That means that regardless of buffs, you ALWAYS lose 25% of your standard average damage EVERY TIME you utilize this feat - BUFFS OR NO BUFFS. AND - you never gain more than your chance to hit x10 extra damage to begin with. The idea that buff mitigation somehow changes this is therefore, unless I am missing something, a fallacy. Together, this means that on average, regardless of buffs, GWM gives you a maximum of +4 average damage, and even that is situational - namely when you are facing low ACs - otherwise it can be much lower or even more harmful to average damage. [/QUOTE]

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