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Thread: This class absolutely sucks now
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raider7734
Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:27 am
#27
Let's have a closer look at HAM costs, or rather HAM efficiency.
Higher HAM costs are acceptable in the context of doing more damage to your enemy, right? For that reason, we'll figure the amount of base damage you can do, divided by the HAM cost to do it. Damage divided by HAM...call it D/H for short.
I have stats forboth a powerhammer and a vibro knuckler, both maxxed out on damage and nothing put into HAM reduction:
Powerhammer: 137-469,cost 114-36-16. Average damage is 303, x1.25 (let's normalize the comparison to hitting an AR1 target), giving 379 damage. Total HAM is 166. Divide this out, and we get 2.28 D/H.
Vibro knuckler: 46-156,cost 37-53-37. Average damage is 101, +250 unarmed damage brings it to351. It's AR1 so no adjustment is necessary. Total HAM is 127. Divide this out, and we get 2.76 D/H.
But wait! In practice, the vibro knuckler is even better.The reason is, if you're going all out for DPS, the powerhamer will bespeed sliced, whereas the knuckler will be damage sliced.
Thisdoesn't change the D/Hof the powerhammer, but it makes the vibro knuckler more efficient:3.04 D/H.
So there you have it:to do X amount of damage, the vibro knuckler will cost you less HAM than a powerhammer, by about 33%.
Advantage: TK... what else is new?
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