At 05:25 PM 10/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
Ah, the love of statistics. Well in pick-up groups, perception is a factor
of whether they'll invite you or not. Reminds me of all the "sing the jig"
requests that I used to get so long ago. :-P
>Incidently I popped over to the Backstage to read Kaearia's messages on
>the issue. Whew, I thought I was bitter sometimes. :)
Lol. No kidding.
---Windleaf