One spell to rule them all

[MakeYouMad]

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

Anywho
Resists can be argued till our face turns blue.

I found an actual resist parse and posted it:

"Anyway, his resist parse claims an average of 347 damage casting 793 damage Draught of Ice against himself with 167CR. If you get PvP damage reduction casting on yourself, that would be 347 out of 531 possible damage average, or 65%. If you don't get PvP damage reduction nuking yourself, that would be 347/793, or an average of 44% per nuke. No data on full resist rates. He uses the phrase "the average hit" so I'm guessing he did not count full resists as 0 damage in that parse and left them out or his average would be much lower."

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=51839

[Darwoth]

looks like his numbers fall in with exactly what i was saying, doubt he was getting many if any full resists, at 170+ cr and 200+ FR (think resists were effectively capped at 200 back then) i did not full on resist single effect spells much if at all more than i would have normally vs players.

[MakeYouMad]

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

looks like his numbers fall in with exactly what i was saying, doubt he was getting many if any full resists, at 170+ cr and 200+ FR (think resists were effectively capped at 200 back then) i did not full on resist single effect spells much if at all more than i would have normally vs players.

Did you get PvP damage reduction casting on yourself or not because I don't remember. It's kind of a big deal that you're absolutely certain of it for the parse to be useful.

[Darwoth]

dont remember, i am talking about back on live against other players though

[Atmas]

I actually played pretty much my whole career as a Wiz on TZ.

I recall 747 as being the max damage it did but I can't remember if that was what it always was with damage reduction. I just know it ended up that way (or was that until I stopped using it).

Since I didn't poll everyone I fought on their resists I won't throw in more missinformation, lord knows this thread has enough. I can say however that Necros didnt get life tap resisted in those days and that they continued to be awesome in Kunark.

My account of talking to other wizards because I didnt have it early on was that Sunstrike and Lure of Ice would basically do in any casters.