Epic feat Devastating Critical
Devastating Critical (Epic)
Choose one type of melee weapon, such as a claw or bite. With that weapon, you are capable of killing any creature with a single strike.
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- Prerequisites Strength 25, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved critical (chosen weapon), Overwhelming Critical (chosen weapon), Power Attack, Weapon Focus (chosen weapon).
- Benefit Whenever you score a critical hit with the chosen weapon, the target must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + ½ your level + your Strength modifier) or die instantly. (Creatures immune to critical hits can’t be affected by this feat.)
- Special You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different type of weapon.
How Devastating Critical Works
Devastating Critical applies to one chosen melee weapon. Whenever you score a critical hit with that weapon, a target that is not immune to critical hits must make the feat’s Fortitude save or die instantly.
Save DC
The Fortitude save DC is 10 + one-half your level + your Strength modifier. A 24th-level character with Strength 30 has a +10 Strength modifier, producing a save DC of 32: 10 + 12 + 10.
Prerequisite Chain
Devastating Critical sits at the end of a demanding melee chain requiring Strength 25, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Critical, Overwhelming Critical, Power Attack and Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Important Limits
The feat triggers only on a confirmed critical hit with the selected weapon, and creatures immune to critical hits are unaffected. Taking the feat again applies it to another weapon rather than stacking the effect on the same one.
See the Epic Feats index for other epic melee options.
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