Game Mechanics: Main hand damage bonus is affecting bow damage

[MiRo2]

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

It went largely un-noticed on p1999 by people pretty familiar with Eq game mechanics for a decade.

Doesn't seem unlikely it would go un-noticed on live by relative noobs for 2 years.

2 Hander damage bonus was part of a late velious patch on live, and wasn't implemented on p1999 until less than 2 years ago.

Patch Notes: September 8th, 2019

Rogean: [Kunark/Sep2000/Oct2001] Applied Era Rules to Weapon Damage Bonus Calculations.

[Baugi]

Originally Posted by MiRo2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2 Hander damage bonus was part of a late velious patch on live, and wasn't implemented on p1999 until less than 2 years ago.

They changed the values, but the bonus has been in for much longer than that.

Patch Notes, Sunday, May 29th, 2011
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Kanras: Classic 2H dmg bonus.

To clarify my earlier claim - my logs (which go back to 2018) show rogues bow min-hitting for their one-handed damage bonus and knights bow min-hitting for more than that (regardless of bow), which suggests that P99 has been using the mainhand damage bonus for a very long time. Obviously, boosting the 2handed damage bonus made it more relevant.

[MiRo2]

This is just a guess, but the 2011 classic damage bonus change was likely taking it to classic values from whatever the stock eqemu code was. Classic bonus values were static ish, and the pre-luclin upgrade heavily incorporated weapon delay, specifically on weapons above like 38 delay.

My point was that it certainly wasn't just not noticed during live. Played on tallon starting in late classic and I never truly feared bow damage until rangers got AM3.