Game Mechanics: Mellee miss rate seems excessively high.

[YendorLootmonkey]

I played a melee in classic, untwinked. I play a melee here, same class, untwinked. I never spent any time on any other EQ emus. Morn, if that's your character in the screenshots you provided, based on the name, then you know I'm legit. :P Did you have this same issue with your rogue?

I distinctly remember never being able to solo a blue mob after about level 4-5 with getting my ass beat and ending up at less than 50% health. Both in classic and here. Yeah, I saw some untwinked warriors and monks solo some stuff, but they spent the next 5-10 minutes bind wounding and sitting their asses down until they healed back up.

I don't have statistics on miss rates and such. I do know that on my 1HS with a 7/24 dmg/delay ratio, my max hit is 14, which means I'm getting up to a 7-point damage bonus applied every 2.4 seconds if I hit. I want that damage bonus to be applied as often as possible, which is why they tell you to put your lowest delay 1HS in your main hand.

I have never used a 2HS, so I don't know how the damage bonus works. If I remember correctly, sometime around Kunark they did a 2H weapon damage adjustment, which means currently 2H weapon damage is probably gimped. Here's all I could find on it... maybe it only applies to post-level-50:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=253

But it seemed to indicate that 2H weapon damage wasn't really ever on par with 1H weapon damage. If there is any sort of damage bonus, it is being applied much less often than with a 1H weapon. Not to mention the aggro potential you're losing out on by not using a faster weapon.

So my theory still stands... unless you have some godly ratio on your 2HS weapon, you may want to distance yourself from the whole 2H weapon thing and work on your 1HS in preparation for when you get dual wield. I *think* you will get better results than what you're getting right now.

No I don't have old/new parses to compare. Just going off of what we know of game mechanics. And then again, I could be horribly wrong and the damage tables for 2H weapons are all out of whack. Since I don't have any experience with them, it would be transparent to me.