MH and BoTH base miscalculations? (in General)


QBOddBird September 24 2007 1:16 PM EDT

I've noticed while doing my Weapon STR testing that the MH and BoTH seem to be a little off in their base damage...or at least that's the way it appears. Some of the numbers can be seen simply by going to the document I published in the main thread itself - most of the numbers simply haven't been C&P'd over to the Excel sheet, and I will get around to that when life gets less hectic - but here's a small example of a comparison between the BoTH and the Katana.

The BoTH is 73 base, the Katana is 74 base. The damages should be approximately the same.

Katana

1.15M ST

Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [100032]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [95132]
Chiko rived Dropbear Roof Ninja [78500]
Chiko dislimbed Dropbear Roof Ninja [82184]
Chiko clove Dropbear Assassin [74955]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [80772]
Chiko hacked Dropbear Assassin [96766]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [98288]
Chiko dislimbed Dropbear Assassin [101204]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [72800]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [66075]
Chiko clove Dropbear Roof Ninja [100235]
Chiko rived Dropbear Roof Ninja [88027]
Chiko dislimbed Dropbear Roof Ninja [63635]
Chiko dislimbed Dropbear Roof Ninja [95464]
Chiko clove Dropbear Assassin [84628]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [91356]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [69243]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [95380]

BoTH

1.15M ST

Chiko sliced into Dropbear Roof Ninja [66188]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [92825]
Chiko sliced into Dropbear Roof Ninja [58128]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [64795]
Chiko eviscerated Dropbear Roof Ninja [57470]
Chiko eviscerated Dropbear Roof Ninja [68268]
Chiko rent Dropbear Assassin [66979]
Chiko chopped Dropbear Assassin [85168]
Chiko chopped Dropbear Assassin [93232]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [83644]
Chiko eviscerated Dropbear Assassin [65892]
Chiko hacked Dropbear Roof Ninja [71136]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Roof Ninja [78678]
Chiko gashed Dropbear Roof Ninja [73561]
Chiko sliced into Dropbear Roof Ninja [73422]
Chiko eviscerated Dropbear Roof Ninja [90760]
Chiko eviscerated Dropbear Roof Ninja [70744]
Chiko gashed Dropbear Assassin [87769]
Chiko rived Dropbear Assassin [77601]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [61195]
Chiko carved into Dropbear Assassin [83744]
Chiko eviscerated Dropbear Assassin [80723]


For the Katana:

Max: 101204
Min: 63635
Mean: 86035.6

For the BoTH:

Max: 93232
Min: 57470
Mean: 75087.4

So 1 base damage increase constitutes a 15% damage increase?

Additionally, if you look at my Excel Spreadsheet, the Executioner's Sword hits consistently 10% harder than the Morgul Hammer - but the Exec is 2 base damage LESS than the MH. That makes me think something is awry with the base damage formula for the leech-draining weaponry.

Since this is Changemonth, maybe it would be a good time to see if this is either a bug that needs fixing or we could find out that this is the trade-off we get for our leech - BoTH users actually are swinging a life-leeching THF?

Nerevas September 24 2007 2:21 PM EDT

Told ya. =)

Rubberduck[T] [Hell Blenders] September 24 2007 2:41 PM EDT

Yea Nere already said this, at some point the MH and BoTH damage was reduced but base stat wasn't changed.

QBRanger September 24 2007 2:53 PM EDT

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001Uug
This was the changelog where the BTH and MH both got a nice nerf, about 30% from the ELS and BONE.

AdminJonathan September 24 2007 3:16 PM EDT

MH ELS BTh have always had special-cased damage curves

QBOddBird September 24 2007 10:58 PM EDT

Ahhhhhh. Well that'll be interesting to keep in mind. Thanks for that. O_o
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