The Great Weapon Fighting feature—which is shared by fighters and paladins—is meant to benefit only the damage roll of the weapon used with the feature. If you’re a paladin and use Divine Smite with the greatsword, Great Weapon Fighting doesn’t let you reroll a 1 or 2 that you roll for the damage of Divine Smite.
Can you use great weapon fighting with a longsword?
Great Weapon Fighting works only with the damage dice of the qualifying weapon. @JeremyECrawford Great Weapon Fighting and Battlemaster’ Sweeping Attack: may I reroll the 1 and 2 of the superiority die?
What’s the average damage roll for Great Weapon?
The average damage roll of someone possessing the Great Weapon Fighting style will be 6.3 instead of 5.5. This is a benefit of 0.8 extra damage points per hit. Frankly I find this to be sadly lackluster compared to being able to up the armor class by one or when compared to the whopping +2 damage bonus of the Dueling fighting style.
How to calculate how much damage does weapon fighting add on?
Subtract the values “1” through Y from the sum of the numbers on the faces of the original die. This value (the value of the numbers we are subtracting) is equal to ( Y 2 + Y) / 2. Add the average value of the original die roll Y times. This is equivalent to adding Y ⋅ ( X + 1) / 2 to the sum of the numbers on the original die.
How much damage does Great Weapon Master feat do?
When you bear in mind that most characters using Great Weapon Master feat will also have selected the Greater Weapon Fighting Style that allows you to reroll 1s and 2s, then the average damage is actually 8.33 (not 7), so only slightly nerfed from 10.
Why is the great weapon fighting style a bad choice?
Why the Great Weapon Fighting style is a bad choice. The Great Weapon Fighting style is as follows: “When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2.
