Weaponsmith Archive

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Earland wrote:

I believe this testing will alsotake into consideration a weapons accuracy modifier:

I have been on Testcenter studying the combat system for some time, and I also have been keeping up with the Weaponsmith boards to see if I missed anything. I have noticed that no one has mentioned (if they have already, and I missed it, I am sorry) that Accuracy effects damage from a weapon. This includes the accuracy bonus a weapon has. This is the hard part... during my testing I have noticed that weapons using the same special... doing the same damage type... doing the same damage, end up doing different end numbers to the same target. These evaluations are constant and only lead to one possiblity... accuracy adding to the damage, but weapons don't list their accuracy currently. Since there are no listed accuracies on weapons, it is hard to tell if a different accuracy on a weapon actually effects the weapon... so I began testing with profession accuracy.

I began my test by taking an axe and becoming a novice brawler... I then attacked a comrade of mine with the melee hit. (I chose my test target to be a player because of the lack of damage multipliers and dividers for level difference). I then proceeded up the 2-handed line until master... then continued to get as much accuracy as possible before all my skill points ran out. Just to prove level had nothing to do with the damage being involved, I switced my template at the end to produce the same level as the insanely high accuracy one, but chose only 2-Handed as my brawler profession... all the rest were ranged leaving me with only the swordsmans accuracy mods... here were my results.

CL 80 Tyrinius Naritus MR/MBH/MMa/Pistoleer 0300

Initial Tests

Novice Brawler

21 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 10

22 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 25

22 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 40

23 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 55

24 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 75

24 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 90

25 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 100

25 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 110

26 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 125

26 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 140

26 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 145

26 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 150

27 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 160

27 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 170

28 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 185

28 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 195

28 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 205

29 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 215

29 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 225

29 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 235

30 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 245

30 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 260

31 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 275

32 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 300

32 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 305

32 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 315

33 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 330

34 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 350

35 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 375

35 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 395 (At level 80)

28 Pts. Dmg. Acc. 195 (Lvl 80, but lower melee accuracy)

The first line indicates my target, his level, and his template. I then proceeded to use the SAME axe, with the same special, on him as I went up in accuracy. The final line of the testing was me respecing to the lowest accuracy a 2-Handed fighter could have and then picking up everything I could to get back up to level 80 without adding accuracy. As you can tell accuracy effect the end damage of your weapon. The reason I am posting this hereis that once accuracy is corrected on weapons we will be able to use these base bonuses to have the possibility of increasing the damages of our weapons. I have tested with frog weapons as well with higher level specials... but I was unable to find the accuracy bonus because it always says zero... BUT I did have two pikeman weapons used with the same stats (Massassi Lance and NSEL) that ended with the NSEL doing more damage from the same individual. This seems to be from the accuracy modifier that we cannot see. I will get back on when I can get more "certain" answers to my questions.

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