POLL: Expertise feat, do you use it?

[Dirk Cutlass]

Nope. Won't use it. I use Power Attack, and the combined -15 to attack would be stupid.

You can't use them together anyway, its either Power Attack or (Improved)Expertise.

You have to pick and chose your moments, sometimes it is better to go for a quick kill rather than tanking it out with Expertise on. Don't forget that a natural 20 will hit whathever your AC, and if you are surrounded by a lot of critters these will start taking an effect.

Sometimes Power Attack is better (or even Improved Power Attack *sighs dreamily*) ! Then again, sometimes it is not, using Power Attack will reduce your chances of a crit (because you are at -5 to AB).

Experience and practise will tell you when to use what.

[Li'll Divvil]

My monk has it and did use it at lower levels. When my fighting ac reached thirties I stopped using it. However I tend to solo a lot and when you get mobbed the baddies do get a few crits in. So I started turning on the feat again, whihc gives me a a mid-high 40's ac and together with my normal 5 attacks per round I can hold my own in a lot of fights and with some dex buff, I can still dish out some too. Being a monk/psi with regenerate running makes me almost as usefull in the frontlines as a 400+ HP tank.

[Paul]

I have Expertise and its been great. Just took Improved and now Dwarf Mercs aren't so bad anymore . I wasn't sure if I could hit anything with the -10 ab but I'm still consistently scoreing hits and crits even, on my first two swings. This leads me to seriously ponder taking improved power attack soon. That extra thrity damage on a crit will come in very handy .

[Cindare]

I routinely take Imp. Expertise with my wizard builds. It makes a whole lot of sense to have that kind of AC boost when your melee damage doesn't matter anyway.

I'm not a huge fan of melee builds, though, so I'll hold back commentary on that except to say that my last one (a Cleric/BG on another PW) didn't have Expertise.