Maximum Kensai Kai Damage, Baldur's Gate 2 BG2

Maximum Kensai Kai Damage

This is a Kai-critical strike from a Kensai BG2 wielding the Staff of the Ram BG2. The above screencap depicts the authoritative Core Rules damage calculation.

• Staff of the Ram: 1d6 + 6 + 12 + 1d4 (20-28)
• Grandmastery (nerfed): +4 (32)
•  Strength 25: +14 (46)
•  Weapon Style Bonus +1 (47)
•  Kensai: +13 (60)
•  Kai + Critical Strike (120)

Brutal at-will flat damage. No RNG at all in the damage rolls. Note that Kensai can execute a maximum of 3 successive, at-will Kai Criticals under 10 ApR. However, if we save after activating Kai, reload, and then activate Critical Strike, we can execute 5 (exploit).

Of course, we can only stack Kai with Critical Strike for one attack followed by one-round cooldown, but that's still impressive. It's like a backstab by a non-Thief.

Note that its +6 dmg bonus from enchantment is undocumented but calculated.

With Fixpack BG2 + True Grandmastery, Kensai inflicts 110 damage on a SotR Kai Critical (10 lower than pristine original BG2 without True GM). By rights we should be yielding 122 damage.

Maximum Melee Damage BG1	Kensai Kai Damage BG2	Assassin 21 Mage 24 Backstab
Maximum Backstab Damage BG1	Kensai 21 Thief 31 Backstab	Assassin 21 Cleric 32 Backstab
Maximum Ranged Damage BG1	Monk Unarmed Attack Damage	Vorpal BG2