On Wed, Oct 11/00, John Tatsukawa <john@...> wrote:

> At 04:21 PM 10/11/00 -0700, jhenders@... wrote:
>
> >And what good is STR on the earlier songs anyway? All the player studies
> >I've seen, which have been just as thorough as the work John Kim used to
> >do, show 50 str adds about 0.03% dmg over the long term. That's about as
> >impressive as a 2pt dmg sheild at L30.
> >
> >[note to Shada, this is an addition to your post, not a reply ;)]
>
> Ah, then why the heck are all the tanks going for STR stuff? Are they all
> misguided? /shrug

Basically, yes. Just like criticals, STR adds to eye candy. A tank
watching his hits will see an occasional bigger than usual number. I've
met lots of tanks who will argue until they are blue in the face that
their damage really is higher with a STR buff, dispite never once having
actually turned their logging on and tested it with one of the log
analysers out there. I've been leveling a warrior up when I'm too burned
out on the 55+ exp grind and I've found criticals, dispite the
impressive numbers, account for about 3% of all hits, regardless of
buffs. I haven't spent the time to do exhaustive testing on STR because
I've already seen two well done studies that have me convinced. One of
those studies was also the first to really show the "magic" number bonus
that made the moss covered twig so out of balance, something even Verant
was appearantly unaware of.

Incidently I popped over to the Backstage to read Kaearia's messages on
the issue. Whew, I thought I was bitter sometimes. :)

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