And I thought it was just me! We a shaman's buffs, MM drums, Elemental and
Guardians, I can get my MR up to 190+ and my cold and fire to 150+. I still
can loose 3/4 of my life in a pull from a damn blue Solusek Mage! I've
gotten to the point where I don't bother weaving Guardian and Elemental
anymore and just stick to elemental without the drum... darn well seems just
as effective...
Taneran
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 5:09 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] News on stats from Abashi via EQCaster's
>
>
> From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>
> This topic has been heatly discussed on the alt.games.everquest newsgroup
> recently. A lot of people, especially the shamans, are really
> disgusted if
> everything Abashi stated was true. To sum up what he said in very general
> terms, DEX and AGI have no impact whatsoever on combat skills like dodge,
> block, riposte, and parry. DEX has no impact on improving your chance to
> get a successful hit. There was more to his post but DEX and AGI I think
> are the two stats everyone was primarily complaining about. One
> person even
> posted that for the melee classes, since stats are almost
> meaningless, EQ is
> more a first person shooter than a RPG.
>
> If its true that primary stats don't really affect combat skills
> that much,
> I wonder how important resist rates are? I would really hate to find out
> that they aren't important in successfully making a resistance roll as we
> think they are. Black helicopter sighting here: the other night I was in
> Mistmoore and my party decided to pull a negotiator that was wandering. I
> equipped drum and weaved both elemental and guardian rhythms. That raised
> my magic resist rate to well over 100. Myself and three other
> people in my
> party still got charmed by the negotiator. I had told everyone beforehand
> that I would have both songs up for the entire fight so none of us were
> likely to get charmed. To say the least I wasn't the most
> popular person in
> the group after that.
>
> Galtin of E'ci
> 30 bard
>
>
> > According to Abashi and reported by EQCasters, stats affect your chances
> > of
> > raising your skill level in skills. Agility increases the chance of
> > getting
> > a skill raise in dodge is a listed example. This would seem to greatly
> > downplay the value of stats once you hit your skill cap in many areas
> > sadly.
> >
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