My 2H Damage seems "meh." Advice?

[Ravand]

I am running a 12/8 Fighter/Cleric (EllisDee's Kensai Warpriest build) using a Cleaver. He has taken the Kensai enhancements relating to great axes up to the top tier. His strength is ~54ish buffed. He has taken Power Attack and all of the 2H fighting feats. He is not running in Legendary Dreadnought (still farming xp in other destinies).

When power surge and the damage boosts are not active, his hits feel weak, around 80-90 damage or so (his crits are 300ish-500ish). Is this normal? His damages feels normal when I am running the boosts, Power Surge, and Divine Might.

Short of switching back to LD for the Headsman Chop, what else can I do to boost my base, un-boosted damage?

[rest]

I am running a 12/8 Fighter/Cleric (EllisDee's Kensai Warpriest build) using a Cleaver. He has taken the Kensai enhancements relating to great axes up to the top tier. His strength is ~54ish buffed. He has taken Power Attack and all of the 2H fighting feats. He is not running in Legendary Dreadnought (still farming xp in other destinies).

When power surge and the damage boosts are not active, his hits feel weak, around 80-90 damage or so (his crits are 300ish-500ish). Is this normal? His damages feels normal when I am running the boosts, Power Surge, and Divine Might.

Short of switching back to LD for the Headsman Chop, what else can I do to boost my base, un-boosted damage?


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[FlaviusMaximus]

I am running a 12/8 Fighter/Cleric (EllisDee's Kensai Warpriest build) using a Cleaver. He has taken the Kensai enhancements relating to great axes up to the top tier. His strength is ~54ish buffed. He has taken Power Attack and all of the 2H fighting feats. He is not running in Legendary Dreadnought (still farming xp in other destinies).

When power surge and the damage boosts are not active, his hits feel weak, around 80-90 damage or so (his crits are 300ish-500ish). Is this normal? His damages feels normal when I am running the boosts, Power Surge, and Divine Might.

Short of switching back to LD for the Headsman Chop, what else can I do to boost my base, un-boosted damage?

What is the overall level of the character? What deadly item are you using? What strength and charisma bonuses are you getting from items? What about strength and charisma tomes? Is the cleaver part of a planar focus set yet?

As for the damage when Power Surge isn't on, I wouldn't worry too much about that. Between Kensai and Dreadnought extra boosts you should have enough uses to keep it up the vast majority of the time between shrines. Obviously Divine Might has unlimited uses so it should be on all the time.

Keep in mind that you are missing out on more than just headsman's chop by running in off destinies. You are also missing around 5 damage per hit on a cleaver that you would be getting from the power attack increase in Dreadnought, among other things. You should naturally see a significant dip in dps when leveling off destinies. It's possible that all that is really required here is patience.