Game Mechanics: Hitting a sitting player should do full damage

Colgate · #1 10-21-2015, 03:57 AM

it currently does not do full damage when you hit a sitting person

it should always do full damage when you hit a sitting person

it used to do this like two years ago, but then somehow it got broken along the way

please fix

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Buhbuh · #2 10-21-2015, 05:31 PM

i think it was doing over the actual max damage to sitting players two years ago - like a 15 damage piercer would double duelist for 1150 or something, which is way over the actual cap.

I think I've seen like 1030's top end with a 15 dmg piercer. But yeah, you can miss and land hits for 15 on people sitting when you're wielding a 2hder. on live people paid dearly for sitting or being caught unawares by a rogue

Colgate · #3 10-21-2015, 05:34 PM

i think it was doing theoretical max before assuming max atk

Ragnaros · #4 10-21-2015, 05:54 PM

can confirm since velious that I have duelisted someone for over 1100 non sitting, so its definetly over 1030

Colgate · #5 10-21-2015, 11:40 PM

yeah, i think in classic/kunark, it assumed you had max atk and did a theoretical max hit, which wasn't usually possible back then, but it's an easily achieved value when people have buffs like VoG, call of the predator, avatar, and aura of battle items

the fix was supposed to make it do max damage by your actual stat calculation, but i guess it ended up being broken to where there's basically no difference between sitting and standing for calculating melee damage

and for what it's worth, i think 1106? was the highest damage a duelist backstab could do per hit

Ragnaros · #6 10-21-2015, 11:45 PM

1106 sounds about right, on another note its pretty annoying duelist backstabbing someone that was sitting for double 388s
please fix

worch · #7 10-22-2015, 02:47 AM

I'm not able to find the source atm, but I do recall a GM or guide mentioning that sitting players don't take max damage.

Maybe this was one of the few classic things that were intentionally adjusted for balance?

ducktv · #8 10-23-2015, 07:01 AM

yeah, this is actually a colgate bug post i can get behind. this is classic as much as i can remember and should remain classic, full damage hits while sitting have always been a thing and you should never miss while sitting either? i've missed backstabs and kicks on my monk while someone is sitting, makes no fucking sense.

yikes · #9 10-23-2015, 04:56 PM

Yes please.

Ranger trueshot hitting someone sitting for 13 feels wrong

Ragnaros · #10 10-31-2015, 01:35 AM

Seems like this got fixed