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Thread: Accuracy Modifiers effect Damage...

Earland
Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:47 am
#1
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.




Nri Talani
gunner4life
Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:41 am
#2
wow very interesting data . thanks for putting in the effort .


i wish the devs would just publish damage / delay and action costs of all moves . explain how the speed / accuracy and defensive mods work and then ask us to test and see if its working as they intended . not only would this allow quicker more focused testing but it would also allow us to figure out what professions / templates are over or underpowered so that they could be tweaked now , rather then a few months down the line when the first fotm is " discovered " and nerf crys are everywhere .





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