When you set up the parser (assuming it is the one I use) you assigned a
character and set him up. Obviously it reads your inventory screen info and
skill info somehow as it knows that 1 HS +1 raised the skill to 99 for
example. I assume it picks up the other info on level and race the same
way, from the other screens.

Kit

-----Original Message-----
From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 11:52 AM
To: eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: [eqbards] L46 weapon effectiveness.

From: <kim@...>

My guild has been hunting the Allizesaur the last couple
nights. Since he's a consistent L50 mob, it offers a unique
opportunity to collect data without having to worry about
level variation in the target.

Preliminary stats for last night's combat activities (87 str,
126 dex):

Ykesha (8/24) in primary
9223 damage
508 hits (56.0%)
399 misses (44.0%)
20 procs unresisted
22 procs resisted
avg dam/hit = 18.2
melee damage = 4.24 dam/sec (including misses)
melee damage = 7.56 dam/sec (hits only)
melee damage + procs = 4.93 dam/sec (including misses)
proc rate = 1 per 51.8 sec

Wakizashi (7/21) in primary
9006 damage
551 hits (55.8%)
437 misses (44.2%)
avg dam/hit = 16.3
melee damage = 4.34 dam/sec (including misses)
melee damage = 7.78 dam/sec (hits only)

Dragoon dirk (6/23) in secondary
4932 damage
654 hits (54.5%)
547 misses (45.3%)
65.0% dual wield rate (this sounds way too high)
avg dam/hit = 7.5
melee damage = 1.79 dam/sec (including misses)
melee damage = 3.28 dam/sec (hits only)

As expected, the Wak has a slightly higher damage output over
time than the Yak, but the difference is probably
statistically insignificant at 2% (the parser doesn't
calculate deviations - I may have to write my own :). Add in
the proc from the Yak even with a >50% resist rate (dino was
red) and the Yak is generating 14% more damage than the Wak,
which with this sample size probably is statistically
significant. So for me, the Yak is clearly the better weapon
in my primary hand.

You'll also note that the secondary weapon damage is much
lower even after you account for the less than 100% dual wield
activation. Other studies have found that your secondary
weapon does not get certain bonuses your primary weapon gets.

Can someone tell me how the parser figures out that my
character is a L46 wood elf? I didn't see that anywhere in
the logfiles. :) And before you ask which parser this is, I
only used the parser for the total damage, hits, and misses.
The rest of the values I calculated in a spreadsheet. The
parser calculated average damage based on time in combat,
which doesn't account for things like PL, target out of range,
etc. I normalized it based on hit attempts, then used the
weapon delay to generate equivalent average damage over time.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...

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