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.
Bolding my own. Vital strike is not multiplied on critical hits, so Vital Strike (Mythic) would double your 1d6+5 to 2d6+10. Then you would apply Vital Strike to that.
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Mythic Vital strike works the same as the Standard Vital strike chain. What Mythic Vital Strike does is allow you to use it with the Spring Attack Chain of Feats and charge action. You do not redoubble your base damage you add 1 die if you have Vital Strke two Dice if you have Improved Vital strike and three dice if you have greater Vital Strike.
you doubbble your strength damage but do not doubble damege from weapon enchanments like frost of flaming burst but you would doubble Smite damage and power attack damage. with Mythic vital strike as it is written.
@Lou Diamond...how does it allow you to use it Spring Attack? I see nothing in the Mythic Vital Strike feat that mentions that...Charge and Spring Attack are 2 different things...right? Also, it says explicitly that you double normal damage from Vital Strike (which is rolling the weapon's damage dice twice):
Whenever you use Vital Strike, you deal double the normal amount of damage, including your Strength bonus, magic bonuses, and other bonuses that would normally be multiplied on a critical hit.
Bolding my own.
@Jeff Clem
Whenever you use Vital Strike, you deal double the normal amount of damage, including your Strength bonus, magic bonuses, and other bonuses that would normally be multiplied on a critical hit.
Bolding my own. It says explicitly you double Str bonus.
I know I am really late to this conversation, but my group recently started using Mythic Adventures.
They way I understand this is Vital Strike would run like this:
Fighter with a Falchion and a +4 STR mod (not adding other bonuses for simplicity), also using straight book rules for damage multipliers wherein you roll the damage again for x2
2D4+4 + an additional 2D4 for the Vital Strike damage.
Whereas Mythic Vital Strike for the same stats would work like this:
2D4+4 then another 2D4+4 for the Vital Strike damage.
Now Improved and Greater with the Mythic would work like above but rolling a 3rd and 4th set of damage dice respectively.
I know my group doesn't typically roll the damage over and over, but that's the book way, and I want to have the book method down before house rules get thrown in.
Thanks
it would be 2d4+6 for using a 2H weapon. But otherwise:
Yes. The effects listed in mythic vital strike replaces the effects from vital strike.
It's just too bad that we need mythic levels for vital strike to be a viable attack.
Ha ha what.
You've missed the point of Vital Strike entirely.
You can use it as a standard action. Full attack is a full-round action. With the Vital Strike chain, you can remain mobile and still do a significant portion of your full attack damage potential in one swing. That's no small thing. If your GM is foolish enough to set up every bad guy right within 5' stepping range, then yeah, Vital Strike may not be for you. Try the Cleave chain instead.
Being able to punch through DR by stacking the damage doesn't hurt either.