On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, J.M. Capozzi wrote:
>
> I think Mr. Kim may be confused at what I was stating. The speed of each
> weapon, in each hand, is the basis for each roundtime, and I apologize if I
> didn't make that clear enough.
I *thought* that was what you were saying, but that's so
obviously wrong :-) that I assumed you were saying the other
thing, which is only subtly wrong.
> As far as weapon speed in the offhand, it does matter, and it can be a huge
> advantage.
>
> Sure, the chances each individual swing is the same, no matter what speed
> weapon you use, but a faster weapon simply nets you many more swings, and as
> such, yields many more chances to activate. Simply put, probability is in
> favor of more successful attack resolutions with more speed. Combat has a
> large random component, it makes sense to weight it as much as you can in
> your favor.
It does not make any difference (other than tightening the
distribution of the damage). Say you have two weapons, one is
10 damage 20 delay, the other is 5 damage 10 delay (i.e. same
damage ratio). Say you are fighting for 60 seconds, and the
chance of your dual wield going of is 20%.
If you have the slow weapon in your off hand, it will make a
dual wield check every 2 seconds, for a total of 30 checks.
20% of those will succeed, resulting in 6 attacks. At 10
damage, that works out to 60 damage.
If you have the fast weapon in your off hand, it will make a
dual wield check every 1 second, for a total of 60 checks.
20% of those will succeed, resulting in 12 attacks. At 5
damage, that works out to 60 damage.
Yes, you get more successful dual wield activations with the
faster weapon in your off hand, but faster weapons tend to do
less damage. Ignoring for the moment that max damage is
(2*dam+1), if two weapons have identical damage/delay ratios,
it does not matter which one you put in your off hand, faster
or slower.
--
John H. Kim
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