All this talk of power attack. I tried it. Was a waste of a slot for my toon. Such little help at such a great loss of AC (combat expertise).

Looking at the epic threads I see one constant too. All the major DPS toons drop DPS and go for one shot weapons/items like trip, stun, weighted etc...

It seems like stunning blow or improved trip would be much more viable than power attack on elite and probably allow some good solo ability in there with little in the way of pots.

Tried switching out power attack but neither blow or trip were available...dang it. Lame.
Went back to imp crit pierce for the moment. Going to see what weapons that proc on crits do in epic to see if that would help any.

I know stat damage is pretty much nerfed in epic (although not completely). Slow actually works (for some reason their saves are lower). Paralyzers work too.

So, in EPIC, dps is meaningless for most parts as they seem to block/firewall a lot of mobs, by pass mobs via invis, or use lesser DPS weapons to proc trip, stun, etc and only then use DPS via insta crits. IF you are getting insta crits, then nice x4 cirt weapons would be good to carry too (which takes out the whole reason for getting khopesh feats and enhancements)

I am thinking once you get enough gear, you no longer will do anything but epic which should bring you to a respec.

However, if the hardest dungeons in the game are about x4 low crit range weapons, waiting for procs of trip/stun/weighted, and DPS only when stunned....then that kinda goes against most builds and reasoning behind them.

IF this works on such a high level challenge, why isn't it better to do the same things at lower levels? Very odd.

will respec a bit and post notes.