On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

>
> Our melee is really too weak currently to qualify as a secondary. I back
> this opinion up by this experience. I was grouped at one point with a
> ranger and a shadowknight. We agreed to test out our melee skills, letting
> the monsters be the judges. None of us cat any spells or used any abilities
> except the ranger to snare mobs that had ceased to offer their opinion as
> judges. The result? I did not take more than a single attack the entire
> night in any fight. In 4 hours of play I took maybe 150 points of damage.
> The shadowknight won the contest but only barely. He was attacked 54% of
> the time, the ranger 46%. The number of attacks on me was below 1%.

This is a bit misleading. Your melee could be 95% that of the
ranger (and the SK's 101%) and you could get the same results.

You'd be better off turning on all attack messages, then
parsing the file afterwards to figure out damage/sec and
damage_taken/sec figures.

--
John H. Kim
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