Vital Strike-One attack ONLY


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Can you ONLY have one attack when using Vital Strike? Or does this mean you declare one attack during flurry of blows is a Vital Strike? Thus a failed attempt ruins Vital Strike for that round?

Here is the feat,
"Vital Strike (Combat)
You make a single attack that deals significantly more damage than normal.

Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6.

Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can make one attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional damage. Roll the weapon’s damage dice for the attack twice and add the results together before adding bonuses from Strength, weapon abilities (such as flaming), precision-based damage, and other damage bonuses. These extra weapon damage dice are not multiplied on a critical hit, but are added to the total."

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Did you miss my post in your other thread?


Monkplayer wrote:
Can you ONLY have one attack when using Vital Strike?

I'll assume for Jiggy's sake that you've read the feat, and are just confused over what the "attack action" is (despite being explicitly told earler).

The Attack Action is a single attack made as a standard action. The rules are somewhat unclear, but this has been verified by developers.

Vital Strike is an attack action, btw, which is a standard action.
Since vital strike requires an attack action (a specific KIND of standard action

Further fish may require some form of obeisance.

Grand Lodge

Yep. One attack.

That's the entire point of Vital Strike.

One massive attack.

Also, see your other thread regarding feat combinations, for Jiggy's formula of feat combinations.


Jiggy wrote:
Did you miss my post in your other thread?

Didn't miss it just posted this literally one minute later after first post.

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