I play a warlord with
Warlord's Strike Warlord Attack 3
One convincing cut is all you need to reveal the enemy’s weakness and
spur your allies into finishing him off.Encounter Martial, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage. Until the end of your next turn, all of your allies gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls against the target.
Inspiring Presence: The bonus to damage rolls equals 1 + your Charisma modifier.
So what exactly is a damage roll?
Several possibilities we came up with :
- Our Wolf can leave a mark, target gets damage when he is not attacked
- Hunters quarry of our Elf
- Every single hit of The two-shot abilities of the elf
- sneak attack + attack afterwards count as two damage rolls, gaining twice the bonus?
Somehow this seems hilariously imba to me. Elf would get this bonus 3 times with hunters quarry+ twoshot?
can someone clear this up for me? Help is appreciated.
Best Answer
The bonus is applied to every damage roll the Warlord's allies do.
In order to comprehend what a damage roll really is, read Rules Comendium, page 222. To short it up, any expression of dice (or [W]) that you can find in a power, feat, monster stat block, etc. The following are examples of damage rolls.
Damage roll modifiers can be applied to such expressions. If a power, class feature or else allows you to perform multiple attacks (like the Ranger's Twin Strike at-will attack power) or multiple damage rolls, the bonus damage is applied to all relevant expressions involved.
However, any expression referred as extra damage is itself another modifier to a damage instance. See Rules Compendium, page 223.
Under this category fall many Strikers' features, such as (but not limited to)...
Hunter's Quarry may be used once per turn; let's suppose the Ranger uses Twin Strike, hits both times, applies Hunter's Quarry (1d6) to the first attack, and benefits from his ally's Warlord's Strike for another +4 bonus damage.
1st hit: he deals basic weapon damage [W] (damage roll) +4 (bonus damage) +1d6 (extra damage).
2nd hit: he deals basic weapon damage [W] (damage roll) +4 (bonus damage).
Note that the extra damage from Hunter's Quarry is not modified by the Warlord's bonus: it is a modifier itself. For many aspects, you can consider it a still-to-be-rolled static damage bonus.