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Message ID: 15253
Date: Tue Feb 22 18:17:02 GMT 2000
Author: kim@stormhaven.org
Subject: Re: L46 weapon effectiveness.


On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Papa Legba wrote:
>
> Doesn't Warsong have a haste effect? And an ac component? (Which
> should in theory make you get stunned from bash a little bit less)
> Would these effect your results?

Yes it has a haste effect, str boost, and AC boost. If I were
using the raw figures from the parsing program, yes it'd make
a difference. But I'm not. I took the total weapon damage,
total weapon hits and misses, and calculated an average damage
per hit and per swing. Then I divided it by the weapon delay
to artificially produce the average damage over time. That
has the effect of eliminating any haste, stun, out of range,
can't see target, etc. factors which might screw up a straight
parse.

The Z-axis limitation for combat messages (and I'd assume
says) is smaller than your melee range. There were several
times when the Allizewsaur was climbing up a hill, and my
weapons were swinging and procing, but I wasn't getting any
combat text. The way I handled the data above also eliminates
any problems due to this.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...