Would someone be so kind as to check my math (please)?


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Real quick thread - just need someone to have a glance over my critical damage outputs.

Current base damage 1d8+4 (Longbow+2 with weapon specialization) and I have the feats, Point Blank Shot (+1 Damage within 30ft), Vital Strike (extra damage die/d8 on a standard attack) and Deadly Aim (-2 to hit, +4 damage).

Long bow critical damage is 19-20/x3 (thanks to Bracers of Falcon's Aim)

So I have worked out my basic critical rolls to be:

Critical - Basic Attack
3d8+12

Critical - Deadly Aim
3d8+24

Critical - Point Blank Shot
3d8+15

Critical - Vital Strike
4d8+12

Critical Combined - Deadly Aim & Point Blank Shot
3d8+27

Critical Combined - Deadly Aim & Vital Strike
4d8+24

Critical Combined - Point Blank Shot & Vital Strike
4d8+15

Critical Combined - Deadly Aim & Point Blank Shot & Vital Strike
4d8+27

Are these numbers correct? Have I missed anything?

Thankyou for your help :)


If you have Weapon Specialization then you have Fighter levels and if you have Vital Strike you are at least level 6; what about the Weapon Training Fighter class feature? If you have that you should at least have another +1 to hit and damage.

Besides that everything looks good.


True, true but I am playing a Zen Archer monk which gives Weapon Specialization as a bonus feat at level 6.

Works very nicely in an E6 campaign.

Thankyou for your help Chaoseffect :)


Glad I could help, though I forgot that archetype was a thing. Now it makes sense.


Are you high enough level to have Vital Strike?


ok - so I should probably explain a bit further.

No, a level 6 monk does not qualify for Vital Strike,but we are running a heavily modified E6 campaign whereby we continue to accrue feats, including custom feats that increase things like BAB etc.

So, my Monk is level 6, but has accrued 3 additional feats (in place of progressing to Level 9). The first 2 feats I picked are custom ones that increase BAB by +1 each (and this feat can only be taken twice), then I added Vital Strike.

Next up is clustered shots!

But, yeah, it is a little complicated but we were aiming for a E6-E8 campaign, with custom feats boosting us up a little over 6th level in terms of power.

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