Kevin, I don't know about Rangers as I'd never play one ;) My post is
regarding bards, and nowhere does it mention any other melee classes. I am
fully aware of the capabilities of the other melee classes with double
attack, riposte, etc., and if you think I meant general weapon damage across
all classes...well, this is a bard forum. I will always believe that is in
*MY* best interest to not use Yaks because most of my time is spent on large
raids where I want as little attention to myself as possible. I have seen
log analyes but have not performed any tests myself. I have seen both
weapons compared endlessly with this person or that person comparing logs
and analyzing with different formulas. I've seen tests where the yak beat
out the wak, and I've seen tests where Waks beat out Yak with procs.
Basically, I think it comes down to a trade off situation for us bards. At
the lower levels of proccing (37-45) I loved my Ykeshas because most of my
time was spent in guk or Sol B. After 46 when you start hitting the planes
and go on FG/Phinigel raids regularly I think they become a liability. But
hey - it's just my opinion, and I believe a Yak "vastly" outdamaging a wak
in the hands of a bard can be considered exaggeration most of the time (in
longer fights).
Sartori D'Elsiraad <Legion>
50th Bard of Veeshan
>From: "Kevin L. Crawford" <Lyrnia@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Waki or Yaki... Was Claw Hype
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:11:25 -0500
>
>Sar I dunno about Bards, I've never bothered with Yaks myself ;) But as a
>Ranger I can guarantee that a Y'kesha vastly out damages a wakizashi.
>Rangers have done a lot of testing of log files, combat durations, solo
>fights, what they can and cannot kill with the various weapons etc.
>
>I'm not going to re-hash those discussions here but suffice to say the
>Y'kesha, every time, out dammaged the Wakizashi by enough that we all
>agreed
>that we were better off with a Y'kesha over a Wakizashi. The Wakizashi's
>dmg output is not significant enough during a fight to out-dmg a y'kesha
>once the Y'kesha procs. Remember, Rangers have Dual Wield AND Double
>Attack, so they tend to proc more often than us when using them. My Ranger
>proc's between 3 and 5 times a fight. So 3*70 or 5*70 additional dmg.
>Many
>rangers average higher (My ranger's dex is horrible (<80)) and I still
>regularly proc 5 times a fight. A ranger with 100 dex will *regularly*
>proc
>between 4 and 7 times a fight. Sometimes more.
>
>Ciao! As I said the rangers discussed it. The numbers may be different
>for
>Bards since we don't have Double Attack or the Rangers THAC0 table and thus
>hit a LOT less often. But I suspect people will find that the Y'kesha will
>still edge the Waki's out in dmg. Though not by nearly as much as it did
>for rangers.
>
>Hope this clears up my post ;)
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