Double Vital Strike (Combat)
You are able to make a Vital Strike with both hands simultaneously.
Prerequisites: Vital Strike, Two-Weapon Fighting
Benefit: Whenever you use Vital Strike with your primary hand, you may also make an attack with your off hand.
Special: If you also possess the Improved Two-Weapon Fighting feat, then the damage from this off hand attack is doubled as if you were using Vital Strike with it.
If you also possess the Greater Two-Weapon Fighting and Improved Vital Strike feats, then the damage from this off hand attack is tripled as if you were using Improved Vital Strike with it.
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Just a little idea I had to make Vital Strike a little more useful. Since Vital Strikes normally let you sacrifice your extra attacks to do additional damage with one strike, this feat basically lets you do the same thing with your off hand.
And as your number of offhand attacks increases, the damage your off hand attack does increases as well.
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The original design intent behind vital strike was to provide an option to warriors who couldn't make a full attack, due to movement for example. But those people can't make off-hand attacks anyway.
Also, I don't think spending more feats will make VS more useful.
My own houserule to make VS work is to set the bonus damage to a static +2d6, regardless of the weapon used. This allows a halfling with a shiv to really do some damage, and in general people who don't want to use uber-sized weapons.
I think a BAB 7 or 8 prerequisite or so would help
Well, Vital Strike already requires a +6.
And I'd change the name to "twin vital strike" flows better in my opinion
I have no problem with that.
The original design intent behind vital strike was to provide an option to warriors who couldn't make a full attack, due to movement for example.
Do you have any evidence of that? Because that's not what I use it for.
I use it for situations where my subsequent attacks are unlikely to hit due to their negative modifiers, or against enemies with high DR.