Posting here to see if these calculations look valid and also because I was surprised to see that the extra damage from Rage, Vicious and Sneak Attack from a Heavy Pick Kensai Ftr12/Bbn6/Rog2 ended up providing more damage per hit than the extra crit range on the Kensai III pure Fighter. 

The Fighter 20 will get the capstone's 5-ish% DPS increase, but I was still surprised that the extra crit range on the Heavy Picks didn't win against the extra damage from the Barbarian and Rogue levels.

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=286768

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quote from a previous post in that thread...
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I'm now stealing Consumer's breakdown and only making the changes to show a Ftr12/Bbn6/Rog2 with Kensai II and Frenzied Berserker I.



I'm just cutting and pasting Consumer's numbers for the most part so that we can have an apples-to-apples comparison and also because it's a lot easier than doing everything from scratch.  I'm also going to go ahead and include the 2d6+3 sneak attack damage in both calculations, but sneak attack doesn't get multiplied on a crit, so it won't make any difference between the two weapons.





Damage per hit that the Ftr 12/Bbn 6/Rog 2 gets that Ftr 18 doesn't:

+10 Strength from Barbarian Rage (or more if you have the active Past Life: Barbarian)

+2d6 = 7 Vicious damage

+2d6 + 3 = 10 Sneak Attack damage

+2 additional Power Attack



Damage per hit that the Ftr 12/Bbn 6/Rog 2 loses that Ftr 18 gets:

Ftr Specified Weapon Specialization II

Kensai III's +1 crit range for specified weapon











HO Fighter 12 / Barbarian 6 / Rogue 2



Gear (autocrit set to boost picks effectiveness)



Head - Epic Helm of the Red Dragon

Goggles - Tharne's Goggles

Trinket - Epic Bloodstone

Necklace - Shintao Cord

Body - Epic Red Dragonscale Robe

Cloak - Earth Grab 45 HP cloak

Belt - Knost's Belt

Bracers - Epic Bracers of the Claw

Gloves - Epic Gloves of the Claw

Ring - Encrusted Ring

Ring - Kyosho's Ring

Boots - Madstone Boots



Weapon 1 - lit II heavy pick

Weapon 2 - lit II heavy pick





Str



20 base

5 levels

7 item

3 exceptional

4 tome

5 enhancements

8 power surge

2 rage spell

2 madstone

2 yugo

2 guild shrine

+10 Barbarian Rage ability

= 70 str

= +30 modifier



2 - 18



4.5 GS Heavy Pick

5 weapon modifier

30 str

10 PA

2 hobgoblin

2 Shintao

2 FB

4 claw set

9 Bard

1 Prayer

2 mastery

1 fighter specialization

4 specialization

= 76.5 damage

7 alignment

3.5 shocking

3.5 flaming

1 force ritual

12 lightning strike (2% chance of 600 damage)

= 103.5

7 Vicious

18 Sneak Attack

= 128.5 damage



128.5 * 17 = 2184.5 damage over 2 - 18





19



76.5 damage + 8 seeker +4 Kensei = 88.5



88.5 * 4 = 354



7 alignment

3.5 shocking

3.5 flaming

1 force ritual

12 lightning strike (2% chance of 600 damage)

33 burst

16.5 blast

7 Vicious

18 Sneak Attack

=

455.5 damage on 19





20



455.5 + 4d6 = 469.5 damage on a 20









Deathnips:



Head - Epic Helm of the Red Dragon

Goggles - Tharne's Goggles

Trinket - Litany of the dead

Necklace - Shintao Cord

Body - Epic Red Dragonscale Robe

Cloak - Earth Grab 45 HP cloak

Belt - Knost's Belt

Bracers - Epic Bracers of the Claw

Gloves - Epic Gloves of the Claw

Ring - Encrusted Ring

Ring - Kyosho's Ring

Boots - Madstone Boots



Weapon 1 - Deathnip

Weapon 2 - Deathnip





2 - 16



3.5 Deathnip

5 weapon modifier

30 str

10 PA

1 litany

2 hobgoblin

2 Shintao

2 FB

4 claw set

9 Bard

1 Prayer

2 mastery

1 fighter specialization

4 specialization

= 76.5 damage

3.5 flaming

1 force ritual

= 81

7 Vicious

18 Sneak Attack

= 106



106 * 15 = 1590 damage from 2 - 16



17- 20



76.5 damage + 8 seeker + 4 Kensei= 88.5



88.5 * 4 = 354 damage



3.5 flaming

1 force ritual

8 Backstabbing

3d6 maiming = 10.5

16.5 burst

= 393.5

7 Vicious

18 Sneak Attack



418.5 * 4 = 1674 damage over 17 - 20









Totals:



lit II = 2184.5 + 354 + 469.5 = 3109.5 damage / 20 = 155.48 average damage



Nips = 1590 + 418 = 3264 damage / 20 = 163.2 average damage



4.96% more DPS for Deathnip in non-autocrit situations



Autocrit



lit II = (455.5 * 18) + 469.5 = 8668.5 / 20 = 433.43 average damage per hit



Nips = 418.5 * 19 = 7951.5 damage / 20 = 397.58 average damage per hit



9.02% more DPS for LitII in autocrit situations





This compares to 2.17% more DPS for Deathnips in non-autocrit situations and 12.4% more DPS for LitII in autocrit situations for the similar Kensai III that Consumer posted. Kensai III narrows the gap for non-autocrit by broadening the crit range for both while the Kensai II/ FB I/ Rogue 2 narrows the percentage gap in autocrit situations by adding the same ammount of damage to both weapns. I was surprised to see the DPS go up for the Deathnips in non-autocrit situations for the Ftr12/Bbn6/Rog2. I expected it to be higher in autocrit situations, certainly, but I thought that the +1 crit range would still be better than the additional damage from rage, vicious and sneak attack.

Ruinhorn wrote on Nov 30^th, 2010 at 5:29pm:


Thank you.  I started out as a pure fighter for my current project, but I like the fact that I can change to blitz any time before level 13 if I decide to go that direction.

I'm still waffling between Ftr20 and a Blitz build.