Long Maces

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's caused by those options being objectively bad in most cases. If an attack sequence takes twice as long to perform and isn't twice as effective, it's a bad choice.

In open melee, this is usually the case.

Evaluate+Attack is almost always worse than attacking twice.

The case where it isn't is when there no time pressure, and the target is unaware of you. Then Evaluate is a good option for improving your odds of hitting a difficult location, and you should try for multiple evaluates.

Same for Feint+Attack.

Under 4e, Feint is mostly useful when you're more skilled than an opponent who nonetheless has good active defences. Then it can be more effective for reducing those defences than Deceptive Attack.

Also, a Defensive Feint (Martial Arts p. 101) is excellent against slam attacks.