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Recently started playing Pathfinder and I'm sitting at a dex-based lvl 5 Tiefling Investigator. Decided to enter myself into the DPR Olympics to see what I could be doing at lvl 10 and maybe see if there's anything I could do to improve. With that said, let's get to it...
Rules I'm probably breaking:
Using a 15 point buy instead of elite array.
My money might be a bit off
A ton of rounding since a lot of Investigator damage involves d6 or d8 rolls, so I take the average
Iaka Caschaar - Tiefling Investigator
STR: 8
DEX: 24 (16 base + 2 racial + 4 belt of dex + 2 levels)
CON: 11
INT: 20 (16 base + 2 racial + 2 headband of int)
WIS: 10
CHA: 5 (7 base - 2 racial)
Feats & Modifiers:
+3 rapier w/ keen, inspired (1d6, 15-20x2)
Weapon Finesse (DEX to hit)
Weapon Focus, Rapier (+1 to attack)
Fencing Grace (DEX to damage)
Quick Study (use Investigator's Studied Combat as swift action)
Amazing Inspiration (use d8 for inspiration rolls)
Combat Inspiration (use 1 inspiration point to inspire attack rolls; with inspired weapon, add twice inspiration roll to weapon damage)
Doing the math:
To hit: 7(DEX) + 7(BAB) + 1(Weapon Focus) + 3(+3 Rapier) + 5(Studied Combat) = 23 bonus to hit, meaning for an enemy w/ AC 24 I hit on every roll that isn't a nat 1;
h: 95% or .95
t: 15-20x2 = 6/20 = 30% or .30
d: 7(DEX) + 7(BAB) + 3(+3 Rapier) + 5(Studied Combat) + 9(2d8 inspired damage to attack roll) + 3.5(1d6 Rapier) = 34.5 avg dmg
s: 4d6 Studied strike damage = 14 avg precision damage
c: 1
DPR = h(d+s)+tchd = .95(34.5+14)+(.30)(1)(.95)(34.5) = 55.91 DPR
Notes:
1. This number drops off significantly without inspiration uses for two reasons: every studied strike requires you to spend an inspiration point to re-study the target the following round and you're using inspiration to add 2d8 damage dice, effectively meaning you get 5-6 full rounds of maximum damage. But with 10 inspiration points a day and attempting to maximize DPR, I'm pretty happy with this. That said, eliminating studied strike from the rotation drops the DPR to a fairly pedestrian 42.61
2. Obviously not using any extract buffs here because they take standard actions to use and my GM ruled that accelerated drinker/potion glutton are not allowable with extracts
3. With the right armor (+X Mithral Chainshirt, or a Haramaki), you're no AC slouch either. Not to mention all the stuff an Investigator can do out of combat.
4. Being new to pathfinder, I'm still trying to figure out how a full round action w/ multiple attacks work (which I believe I would have with a +7/+2 BAB), so I didn't add it in case I screwed it up and ended up looking a fool on the internet.
5. This probably isn't very optimized, but I'm pretty happy with the result, especially hitting on almost every roll.
TL;DR 55.91 DPR theoretical maximum, 42.61 realistic, I don't optimize well