Leap Attack

[riddles]

i just want to check i am reading this right,

If i power attack with a double handed weapon, the damage bonus i get is doubled.

if i then use the leap attack feat (i assume you have to make a successful jump check, i don't know the DC), this damage is tripled.

meaning for the loss of 1 point to hit, i get an extra 6 points of damage.

this seems to be a fantastic tradeoff for me, if the jump DC isn't horribly difficult

[Talic]

i just want to check i am reading this right,

If i power attack with a double handed weapon, the damage bonus i get is doubled.

if i then use the leap attack feat (i assume you have to make a successful jump check, i don't know the DC), this damage is tripled.

meaning for the loss of 1 point to hit, i get an extra 6 points of damage.

this seems to be a fantastic tradeoff for me, if the jump DC isn't horribly difficult

In D&D, two doublings is a tripling. For the loss of 1 point to hit, you get an extra 2 points of damage with a 2 handed weapon (1 doubled).
With leap attack, that's tripled to 1 for 3. If you had another feat that granted an increase, it'd be 1 for 4.

[Prince Gimli]

It was errata'd for disambiguitiy and clarity. The errata states that the extra damage from power attack is increased by 100% with leap attack. So with a two handed weapon you get 4 extra damage per point of penalty you take to your attack roll.

For example, if Krusk leap attacks with his greataxe and takes a -4 to hit, he would deal an extra 16 points of damage. If Krusk would use a battle axe one handed he would deal 8 extra damage while taking -4.

[its_all_ogre]

1 power attack is not doubled with a 2 handed weapon. it is +2 per -1
this is important. although it looks like it is double, but per RAW it is 2 not 1, which is very different to doubling.

2 leap attack has been errated to being +100% damage.

so leap attack = -1 to hit=+4 to damage.

still v nice. (ninja'd!)

[Sir Iguejo]

i just want to check i am reading this right,

If i power attack with a double handed weapon, the damage bonus i get is doubled.

if i then use the leap attack feat (i assume you have to make a successful jump check, i don't know the DC), this damage is tripled.

meaning for the loss of 1 point to hit, i get an extra 6 points of damage.

this seems to be a fantastic tradeoff for me, if the jump DC isn't horribly difficult


you got it wrong


(double ninja'd)

leap attack says that when you succeed the jump check, your powerattack damage is tripled INSTEAD of doubled.

so each -1 to hit gives you +3 to damage, not +6

[its_all_ogre]

this has been hotly debated before many times by the way.
at least its better than yet another monk thread :smallbiggrin:

i stand by the +4 based on errata

[Zincorium]

If you want confirmation, check out the errata for the frenzied berserker ability as well. Same wording, and it actually includes an example of what happens when a two-handed weapon is used.

[Rad]

As much as I loathe it, the errata version put some effort into not using the word "double", so the intent was clearly to give +4 per -1.