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Brace (Melee)
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See also: Brace (Ranged)
Brace is a weapon action available to characters proficient in and wielding a glaive, or pike in their main hand.
Description
Spend 6 m / 20 ft of your movement. For the rest of your turn, roll melee damage twice and use the highest result.
Properties
- Cost
- 6 m / 20 ftMovement
- Details
- Duration: 1 turn
- Recharge: Short rest
Condition: Braced
Duration: 1 turn
- On Damage Rolls, roll twice and use the higher result.
How to learn
Granted by wielding the following weapon types with proficiency:
Notes
- The average bonus damage dealt per die is equivalent to taking the Savage Attacker feat.
Bugs
- When used with Savage Attacker, it will roll each dice 3 times and use the highest result.
- The tooltip is showing 4 rolls but it appears to be a bug as of patch 6.
- When used with Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Fighting, it will do a first roll and reroll if it's a 1 or 2, and then roll 2 more times and use the highest result.
- The tooltip is showing 4 to 6 rolls but it appears to be a bug as of patch 6.
Math[edit | edit source]
Average bonus damage of Brace[edit | edit source]
Damage die | Average bonus damage | Average damage roll |
---|---|---|
1d4 | 0.63 | 3.13 |
1d6 | 0.97 | 4.47 |
1d8 | 1.31 | 5.81 |
1d10 | 1.65 | 7.15 |
1d12 | 1.99 | 8.49 |
2d6 | 1.94 | 8.94 |
Average bonus damage of Brace and Savage Attacker[edit | edit source]
Damage die | Average bonus damage | Average damage roll | Avg bonus damage added by Savage Attacker (or Brace) |
---|---|---|---|
1d4 | 0.94 | 3.44 | 0.32 |
1d6 | 1.46 | 4.96 | 0.49 |
1d8 | 1.97 | 6.47 | 0.66 |
1d10 | 2.47 | 7.97 | 0.82 |
1d12 | 2.98 | 9.48 | 0.99 |
2d6 | 2.92 | 9.92 | 0.98 |
Average bonus damage of Brace and Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Fighting[edit | edit source]
Damage die | Average bonus damage | Average damage roll | Avg bonus damage added by Great Weapon Fighting | Avg bonus damage added by Savage Attacker |
---|---|---|---|---|
1d4 | 1.08 | 3.58 | 0.14 | 0.21 |
1d6 | 1.62 | 5.12 | 0.16 | 0.35 |
1d8 | 2.13 | 6.63 | 0.16 | 0.51 |
1d10 | 2.64 | 8.14 | 0.17 | 0.67 |
1d12 | 3.14 | 9.64 | 0.16 | 0.83 |
2d6 | 3.24 | 10.24 | 0.32 | 0.70 |