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If someone is using Great Weapon Master or Sharpshooter, they need to be able to calculate when to use it. It’s really not hard to do so on the fly though, just ask yourself: "What percentage of my damage is (GWM / Sharpshooter)? "

If it’s half your damage, you can halve your hits before it’s disadvantageous. Note this is always in comparison to your rate with it off. If off you’d hit 60% of the time and on you’d hit 35%, It’s still worth using, lower and it’s not, you’d be nerfing your own damage by leaving it on.

If it’s 1/3 of your damage, you can drop your hit percentage by 1/3. Going from 90 to 65 is fine, lower and leaving it on is worse.

If it’s 1/4 of your damage, you’ll basically only use it when you’re dropping by 1/4 of your hit chance or less, which means either enemies with low ACs where your accuracy was overkill beforehand, or against enemies where you have advantage.

https://anydice.com/program/324ec

The link above is dice probabilities, with advantage, normally, and with disadvantage. Since you always hit if you get "at least" the target AC, the "At least" tab will always be directly reflective of the probabilities you'll see in game. Thankfully you don't need to manually calculate them, if you have a +10 and the AC is 15, and you have advantage, it'll just show 96%, or if you have disadvantage, 64% (or if neither 80%). But it gives you an idea to the kind of space where Sharpshooter and GWM will still be worth using even if your initial damage is 30 or more. If you're going from a 2 to a 7 with advantage (99.75 to 91), you could have 80 base damage, and GWM / Sharpshooter will still be worth using.

So as long as you understand your odds, and understand when to use it, it can be a tremendous boon. Often it will increase your expected damage output by 50%+ in the early game, and continuing to pay dividends throughout the game. If someone hasn't already, they should try pairing someone with GWM and / or someone with Sharpshooter with a Druid who makes effective use of their spider form and web, it makes the early game an absolute slaughter.

Later on, you can get reliable sources of advantage with items, the most famous being the Risky Ring, but multiple options are available. You also gain access to many types of paralysis or sleep effects, at which point your hit percentage is always 100% and more damage is always better. Note that this 100% hit auto crit mechanic even applies to ranged weapons within 1.5m, and they both auto hit and auto crit without needing Crossbow Expert to negate the normal disadvantage they would have for their target being prone if they were conscious.

Finally, it should be noted that the ancillary benefits will apply regardless of your use of the passive. +2 to hit when shooting at enemies with high ground over you and a bonus action attack on a crit or kill remain useful, potent bonuses at all stages of the game, even if you never have the passive on. But, if you use advantage and CC well, and can handle basic math calculations, you'll certainly have it on more often than not, and as a result you'll do some very silly amounts of damage.

you never get 95% accuary with snarp shooter and 95% its only possible for reckless attack in one turn, so yeah great feat if you want to deal 0 dmg every turn

i dont accept 90% accuary cause its too low and 25% crit is bonus damage from time to time, but you lost crit and any dmg if you miss, this game sucks cause they should be possible to have 100% acc, even 95% piss me off cause it can miss too and miss pretty oftten

with 65% you will miss pretty all the time, fighter have 60% accuary at level 1-4 something like this and its always miss, same with monk 60% acc is basilcy miss all the time

at early levels you have to abuse magic missles and bless to do any damage

This guy is always wrong as ever, I get 95-98% chance with Sharpshooter all the time . Look at my gut chance in the video I posted , see how much damage i am doing, I have Sharpshooter all the time . 98% hit chance .

This guy is a troll

Just to add to that, my thief rogue / gloomstalker / fighter with sharpshooter is an absolute beast and has way over 70% chance to hit on all enemies, most of the time it's 80-90%. With sharpshooter on all the time.

You definitely can, Short Swords and Scimitars are both light, anyone can verify that with a level 1 character with 30 seconds of effort. Just saying.

lol 80% is trash accuary and you will deal less damage overall with 80% accuary and sharpshooter than 95% accuary and without it and you calling me troll while you don't have 95% accuary like I said

meh it was rapier not scimitar

https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Sword+of+Screams

both rapiers deals much more dmg then short swords

First, find a post where I called you troll, I dare you. I totally think you are one but I never said it.

Second, please, try to make an effort. If you think that everyone is dumb, most of the time it's you who are dumb.

rapiers are still much better than shortswords that make dual wielder s tier feat

and str weapons are much better any way, you can make 16 str and 14 dex for ac in medium armor and get much better dps than shity light weapons xD or just use potion for 21 str its common potion

btw sword of screams are act 1 drop