Bow damage formula?

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Originally Posted by TytosOfEight [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unfortunately, you forgot to account for the proc damage from the Gleed bow. I remember using it with a rusty halberd, killing the 3 blue Barbs in Perma at 51ish, and that thing would proc 15-16 times per fight. It was doing more than 1/3 total damage, and sometimes up to half my bow damage. It will use fewer arrows. Unhasted it will proc more too. It's great because the damage the output is the same for rooted vs. unrooted mobs, because the proc works regardless.

Good point. At 34% haste you'll have 11.5 Earthshaker swings per minute or 19.6 Swarmcaller swings per minute. If your dex gives you 1.5 procs/minute that's a 13% proc chance per swing on the Earthshaker and a 7.6% proc chance on the Swamcaller. Multiplying those percentages by the proc damage of 81 gives an expected proc damage per arrow of 10.5 or 6.2 respectively. A pretty considerable contribution when the modal damage is 69 or 51, respectively.

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

3. It was I who showed that Archery has it's damage divided by 2 and it has a global damage modifier in the EQEMU code. Not yourself.

It's been common knowledge for years that archery damage isn't doubled like melee is.

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do we have a formula for max damage?

I wanted to try parsing str vs dex to see how that works out. I don't have dex gear but figured if DPS/max hit does or doesn't go down after removing a bunch of str gear then we'll know. If it doesn't I'll remove dex gear. Still new to parsers so I'll have to figure out how to extract the log of individual hits.

I did some testing against Bloodmaw the other day. 15 stacks each with four different str/dex combinations. Huntsman, Tolan's, and mainhand was always a 1her. I think max damage and the impact of str/dex is going to require much larger sample sizes, unfortunately; I don't think the measured max hits here are the true max hits and I don't see anything conclusive in these results.

I don't think I have the patience to repeat the experiment with 30 or 40 stacks of arrows but I might rerun against a blue con like a frost giant elite or something. If you want to do some parsing either DSM or I can help with the analysis, but personally I've found the most convenient way to do it is with Unix utilities, which I think you can install on windows.

The command I use to isolate the damages looks like this:

grep "You hit Bloodmaw" log_file| awk '{print $10}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k2

Where log_file is whatever you named the file with the fights you want to analyze.