archery dmg

[Giovanni]

Ranger archery does not appear to get bonus dmg versus stationary targets in pvp.

[Nirgon]

I'll just write "evidence" here when it is easily testable in game

[Nirgon]

http://eqruckus.tripod.com/patch_messages.htm

^ has other good stuff in it


** PvP **

- If a player is moving when using archery against a PvP target, they have a reduced chance to hit their target.
- Archery in Player vs. Player combat in now reduced to 66% damage.

This is a result of the griefing from the archery mastery/infinite quiver BS ^.

[Technique]

The subject of this thread was already fixed 10 months ago.Alecta: [PvP] Level 50+ rangers will now get the same bonus against non-moving, non-rooted players as they do against NPCs.

[Nirgon]

Not talking about the moving note talking bout just straight up 66℅

[Technique]

No shit.
It's possible that archery damage is reduced to 80% (or even lower) in PvP on this server.

I don't currently have the means to confirm this ingame myself, but when looking at the stock eqemu source I noticed the following in attack.cpp:
if(attack_skill == SkillArchery)
PvPMitigation = 80;It seems archery damage was initially reduced to 66% dmg in PvP during the LoY expansion, then increased to 80% during GoD.
At any rate, it should be full dmg during p99's era.

IIRC (dev box isnt unpacked yet, cant verify), archery is doing 80% of it's damage in PvP.

Will add this to the list of things to look into.

[Nirgon]

You got anything on item loot being classic or not? Thought I might as well check with you.

[Haynar]

I looked. Archery does have a 20% mitigation penalty in the code.

H

[Nirgon]

And I quote

No shit?

[Dullah]

Archery damage is horrible here. With the highest dmg bows its like 40-50 dmg max (non ranger crits etc) while boulders are landing for nearly 200s.

[Haynar]

Archery damage is horrible here. With the highest dmg bows its like 40-50 dmg max (non ranger crits etc) while boulders are landing for nearly 200s.

I will look at damage bonus code. 20% mitigation is not making up that difference.

H

[Dullah]

Thanks again for your efforts Haynar.

[Colgate]

archery damage is fine for the most part, i've been hit for over 100(highest i've seen is 181 sitting, non-crit) with windstrikers plenty of times

the real problem is in the accuracy(would be due to the non-classic nerf in the stock emu code that multiplies accuracy by 0.25)

i believe there is also some non-classic code for throwing in the stock emu code that causes throwing to receive further damage bonuses or something like that