Game Mechanics: Tranquil Staff DPS -- The May 29th Patch

[Enderenter]

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

Seems like this is in reference to warriors being too powerful but only in relation to one item, which indicates the possibility that warriors can do sizeable damage but it was considered game-breaking. That leads me to believe that 2h weapons specifically meant for DPS classes not being good DPS weapons is a problem, as well.

Any class can do sizable damage, given the right tools (int casters: Rod of Annihilation/Tola robe).

My point was, give a monk an RFS and a warrior an RFS, and roughly equivalent STR/haste, and the monk should easily outparse the warrior.

[Aadill]

Kanras, was that patch in reference to this patch from live?

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000419.html

TWO HANDED WEAPONS UPGRADED, APRIL 19, 2000

As part of the emergency update completed last night, a change was implemented that increases the amount of damage done by someone wielding a 2 handed weapon.

This change was made due to a statistical imbalance in the way that damage is calculated at the mid-to-upper levels. A person wielding a one-handed weapon of a given ratio was able to do more damage than when wielding a two-handed weapon of the same ratio.

We would like to stress that no change has been made to the amount of damage done by people wielding one-handed weapons. The net result of this change is that people choosing to wield two-handed weapons will now do more damage than they did before.

[Tulvinous]

Nice find Aadill, interested in knowing that answer myself. It sounds as if that is a post patch fixing something Sony originally goofed on.

[RupesTZ]

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

Kanras, was that patch in reference to this patch from live?

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000419.html

TWO HANDED WEAPONS UPGRADED, APRIL 19, 2000

As part of the emergency update completed last night, a change was implemented that increases the amount of damage done by someone wielding a 2 handed weapon.

This change was made due to a statistical imbalance in the way that damage is calculated at the mid-to-upper levels. A person wielding a one-handed weapon of a given ratio was able to do more damage than when wielding a two-handed weapon of the same ratio.

We would like to stress that no change has been made to the amount of damage done by people wielding one-handed weapons. The net result of this change is that people choosing to wield two-handed weapons will now do more damage than they did before.

I'm interested to hear more about this patch note our friend Aadill brought up. I'm thinking this must be an error because as others have said fists seem to be near or greater DPS than my tstaff which just isn't right.

[Tulvinous]

This thread is more about the staff and not overall 2H damage. In addition the proc is unreliable in duration to what it was on live servers.

[Aadill]

That's what I'm agreeing with, Ender [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] You probably said it a bit clearer, but I was just pointing out that a weapon was specifically changed because the mechanics of the warrior class were causing an imbalance for other classes due to the high damage nature of 2hand weapons. As of right now we don't see that sort of high damage nature of 2hand weapons so that is the root problem, for certs.

[Aadill]

As long as it's level 1 so it doesn't provide skillups it's not a bad idea, at least for testing purposes.