#maximum damage

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“The Max” is such a perfect alter ego wrestling name for Maxwell because it is painfully uncreative as this character has been previously established to be. And there’s so much to play with like a ‘Maximum’, as discovered ‘Gotch’ sounds like God, you could even play around with the ‘well’ if you wanted but nope, just “The Max.” I am so charmed by his swagless behavior, everybody say thank you Brian Murphy!

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Mighty Nein Level 16 Max Damage

Thanks to @tobyjamessharp for this art piece, and to @mad--pie​ for the individual portraits used in this article!

With the end of the campaign, it’s time for one last max damage post! Due to a combination of spell choices and class abilities plus some new spell shenanigans, the Mighty Nein have the reverse situation to Vox Machina: the highest damage dealers by far are the spellcasters. Furthermore, all of the Mighty Nein except the physical fighters deal more single-target damage than a Level 20 Vox Machina’s lowest-ranked single target damage dealer, Keyleth. Keep in mind, however, that Keyleth in particular excels at multi-target damage, and as an Archdruid, she can cast spells while wildshaped and can wildshape as much as she wants, so in a straight-up fight, would still likely wipe the floor with them one-on-one.

We didn’t include Essek here despite being a member of the Mighty Nein for a couple of reasons. First, he is an NPC, not a PC, and therefore doesn’t quite follow typical PC rules. This makes it a little bit of an unfair comparison, since the others are bound by specific balancing rules and he is not. Second, we simply don’t know enough about his capabilities. From what we have seen, it’s likely Essek has a similar spell slot capacity as Caleb, but we haven’t seen him use the same single-targeted spell attacks that Caleb has access to, specifically Scorching Ray and Cat’s Ire (a reskinned Bigby’s Hand). This makes it likely that he will suffer the same problem as Keyleth in these analyses: high damage to groups, but suffers when it comes to single-target damage. From what we’ve seen, Essek’s biggest single-target, single round bomb would be an 8th level Gravity Fissure, for a maximum of 80 damage. It’s possible he has other tricks up his sleeve, but we simply don’t know.

As a reminder, our rules:

Only look at single-target damage.

Any AoE spells assume a single target.

Ignore creature-specific resistances and vulnerabilities.

“Vulnerability” from special abilities like Path of the Grave can be used, since those can be targeted to affect any enemy or damage type.

All attack rolls crit

All targets fail saving throws

Only use abilities/spells that take effect during a PC’s turn

No reactions

No ongoing damage

No creatures from conjuration spells

Setup for persistent spells/abilities can take as many rounds as necessary, as long as they’re still active when the damage round happens.

None of our setups, even while some of them are fairly complicated, require more than a minute, and all persistent abilities used last at least a minute.

None of this setup can come from another character, and characters are limited to their own equipment (to the best of our knowledge as of episode 141).

With that, we’re ready to go, so without further ado, our level 16 Mighty Nein max damages, in order of lowest damage to highest!

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Mighty Nein Level 12 Max Damage

Thanks to @manougijsbrechts​ for this art piece!

It’s been over two years since we’ve done one of these, but with the Nein’s relatively recent advancement to level 12, it’s time to celebrate as the party begins to hit the truly high level ranks. For those new to the game, here’s the rules:

Only look at single-target damage

Ignore all resistances and vulnerabilities

Assume all attack rolls crit

Assume all targets fail their saving throws

Only count actions taken on a PC’s turn (i.e., no reactions or summoned creature actions)

Buffs and debuffs from the player only that require set up were taken in previous rounds (e.g., Hexblade’s Curse, Maelstrom Gauntlets, Spiritual Weapon)

NO bonuses provided by other characters

Equipment limited to items used by a specific PC

With the stipulations in place, it’s time to bring the Max Damage series back!

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Mighty Nein Level 3 Max Damage

Thanks to @MakioKuta for this art piece!

By this point, we know most of what the Mighty Nein is capable of in combat, so time to revisit one of our old favorites: Max Damages!

As a reminder, this is the total amount of damage each character can deal to a single target during their turn, assuming no resistances or vulnerabilities, but allowing spells and effects to carry over from a previous round. For simplicity’s sake, no one gets any reactions, either. This also assumes the completely insane situation where everyone rolls the maximum number on each damage die, all attacks crit, and targets fail all saving throws.

The last time we did this was for Vox Machina at level 20. Level 20 characters are capable of dealing out insane amounts of damage (since, y’know, they tend to fight gods/demigods and are basically gods themselves). The damage a level 3 character can deal out is, frankly, hilariously small by comparison. (Le-vel 3! Le-vel 3!)

The good news is, the calculations are correspondingly much easier, since everyone can do five things at most. You’ll also recall that the spellcasters fall far behind the physical attackers at those upper levels, since most of their spells are area-of-effect, don’t require attack rolls, or are debuffs (or some combination of the three). This turns out to not be the case at level 3. So without further ado and in no particular order:

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