Is Power Attack a worth while feat to invest in on unfair?

[Pink Eye]

Title.
Since the chance to hit enemies is going to be low, wouldn't Power attack be more of a hindrance?

[Cutlass Jack]

Well Dazzling Display, Cornugon Smash, Shatter Defenses and Dreadful Carnage are the most awesome things ever. So yes, I'd say Power Attack is worth it.

[Pink Eye]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Well Dazzling Display, Cornugon Smash, Shatter Defenses and Dreadful Carnage are the most awesome things ever. So yes, I'd say Power Attack is worth it.

Hmm.

[Dixon Sider]

Its just difficult to use. It opens up a lot of great feats though. I made a spreadsheet not too long ago with the (average damage + to-hit) vs DPS gain for activating power attack. There is not a very large window where you benefit from it. You either need very high accuracy, or very low damage per hit for it to be worthwhile

[Pink Eye]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

Its just difficult to use. It opens up a lot of great feats though. I made a spreadsheet not too long ago with the (average damage + to-hit) vs DPS gain for activating power attack. There is not a very large window where you benefit from it. You either need very high accuracy, or very low damage per hit for it to be worthwhile

Huh, interesting.

[Arden]

What Dixon said. After you get greater invisibility you have close to 100% hit chance. So then it's usable with some caveats. If you have less than 80% chance to hit I'd stay away from it.

[haplok]

Not on its own, no. But it does open Dreadful Carnage, which is pretty awesome on a high Intimidation character with Shatter Defenses.

So I'd only pick it after my character already has Shatter Defenses.

[superlovi]

Yes shatter defence + courmagon usually counterbalance totally te -3/4/5 to hit. And you still get more dmg.

Dmg is still useful vs enemies with high dmg resistences.

Special case: 2 handed specialist, in wich power attack is always good

[Babbles]

I don't, no, as you can get Dreadful Carnage in a few other ways (Kinetic Knight, for eg).

People with shatter defenses is great when Octavia is running around with frightful aspect too.

[Blood Flowers]

Originally posted by Pink Eye:

Title.
Since the chance to hit enemies is going to be low, wouldn't Power attack be more of a hindrance?

Having done multiple unfair runs, I typically only go for Power Attack on characters that I know will be getting very high attack bonuses (Fauchard Two Hand Specialist, for instance) and do not need the feat for survivability (frontline tank like a TSS/SD). Unfair is primarily about min-maxing, you want your tankier characters to be as tanky as possible, while having your damage characters being as high DPS as possible (while still being safe).