Nope I agree with you totally. I disagreed with Harm in that most of the
hits from lower level mobs are not within the 80% of max area. However, if
you take out just the hits for 1, suddenly the remaining hits are again
mostly within that 80% of max window. That makes me think there is either a
bug in the damage calculation, or, that when you eliminate damage due to
damage avoidance as opposed to absorption you take a minimum of 1 no matter
how much you would have absorbed over the amount done. For example all hits
are avoided with damage avoidance do 1. All other hits do their full damage
minus X. Since their full damage is actually a much higher range in general
than your absorption, you only see a lot of high number hits, but as
avoidance goes up, you see many more hits for 1.

Kit

-----Original Message-----
From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:05 PM
To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] UPDATE 2 - we're getting there!

From: <kim@...>

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
>
> Wow I disagree with Harm??? Unheard of almost. Actually you might as well

I assume you meant you disagree with me. :)

> be right though. From the parsings I've done a mob will. regardless of
> level, hit you for 80% of its max or more 80% or so of the time it hits
you
> for more than 1. As you go up in levels you should see more misses and
more
> hits for 1, at least thats what my logs have shown so far. The amount of
> hits I see between 1 and 80% of max hasn't changed much for most mobs
> despite gaining 12 levels since I started checking.

Which supports what I wrote. As I've increased in level, the
average damage I take from a hit has gone down. If I'd meant
median or mode, I would've said so. :P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Honeyman [mailto:honeyman@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:26 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] UPDATE 2 - we're getting there!
>
>
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
> > I would wait to see how much damage the ubermobs do against
> > appropriate level players before deciding. When I was in my
> > teens, giants almost always hit for 100+. Now that they're
> > green to me, they miss a lot and seem to average around 30-40
> > per hit.
>
> Giants have and will always hit for ~96 dmg. Your level makes
> little difference in the amount of the attack. Yes, they miss
> you a lot more often, but a L42 ice giant's consistant hit is 116,
> it was 116 when I was L14, and it still is 116 at L50.
>
> Regardless of level the monster will strike usually in the upper
> 80% of their damage range unless they outright miss you.
>
> Harmonic.
>
>
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