cleaving with power attack / furious focus

[Ulfen Death Squad]

I have a feat combination question in combining the cleave feat thread with power attack and furious focus.

Cleaving allows you to continue attacking with your highest attack bonus, the # of attacks depending on the feat. With furious focus, you can power attack with no attack penalty on the 1st attack as long as you use a 2 handed weapon. So if I have this correctly, when combining these feats, you keep the highest attack bonus (just can't attack the 1st target again) but take a penalty after 1st attack for power attack.

Building a fighter tank for an AP that uses the vital strike and cleaving feat strings but I have never combined cleave with pa/ff.

[Green Smashomancer]

That sounds correct.

One thing to point out is that cleave and vital strike do not function together.

[Ulfen Death Squad]

I know. In having both, I can switch between them depending on the number of baddies I face.