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Message ID: 17101
Date: Thu Mar 30 20:29:24 BST 2000
Author: Reeves, Patrick W
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Bards abilities redefined was: Attack speedups


Also the only way to get a true comparison is to have all three players
using the exact same weapons. In pure melee damage output I would expect a
bard to be a close third to the SK being second. Since even if your DW went
off as often as the SKs DA, the SK has bash and his second attack is not
with his nerfed left hand weapon. The ranger would out pace both of you as
DW/DA is hard to compete with.



-----Original Message-----
From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:25 AM
To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Bards abilities redefined was: Attack speedups


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
kim@...


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