On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ryan Honeyman wrote:

>
> > Why ice giants? So far, all the mobs I've seen, unless they
> > have a weapon or are buffed, swing once every 3.0 seconds.
> > It's far easier to test it on level 1 mobs that can't double
>
> Because ice giants won't be missing you, and you won't be dodging
> them, so your health bar will be the indicator of success ;-)

Well if you turn misses on, you can see the level 1 mob
swinging at you and missing. What matters is the time between
attempts, not successes. :)

> Ice giants don't take their time swinging either. It definitely
> doesn't feel like 3.0 seconds between swings. They are some of the
> fastest attackers (maybe perceptively) around since they theorectically
> are of level where you will see possible quadruple attacks.

Like I said, they can have speed buffs cast on them. Dunno
about ice giants in particular, but last night I saw a gnoll
enchanter buffing other gnolls. The message was "moves
faster" which is the standard attack speed buff message.

Due to the recent bug Verant found, you will only see triple
and quad attacks if a mob is dual wielding weapons. Sir Lucan
triple attacked me twice last night.

> I can easily last twice to three times as long in toe to toe against
> an ice giant with togors on it. It would be obvious after chains
> wore off (and didn't effect togors) if my survivability was still
> intact. Snakes don't offer such challenges, and you then need to
> resort to logging and timing. With larger npcs the dmg output will
> be noticably different without parsing.

Damage is by definition random and variable. Your stopwatch
is not (at least one would hope not :).

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John H. Kim
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