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From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [V] Mid-level Mage Observations / Questions
Date: 2008-03-29 12:20:46
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chadhogg wrote:
> I am playing a Dunadan Mage, currently level 36 with most stats at or close to
> 18/100 before race/class/equip bonuses, hanging around DL 40 until I get the
> rest of those stats boosted to their maximums.  I recently noticed that, even
> though I have a fairly bad weapon compared to the rest of my kit [Small Sword of
> Westernesse (1d6) (+10, +8) (+1)], my physical attacks are remarkably effective.
>  I get 4 attacks with this light weapon, and seem to land 3 of them on average
> against those creatures with which I dare to go toe-to-toe.  The average damages
> for several things I can do appear below:
>
> Single Attack = 1d6 + 27 = 30.5
> Full Attack = 30.5 * 4 = 122
> Magic Missile = 10d4 = 25
> Acid Bolt = 15d8 = 67.5
> Ice Storm = 122
> Meteor Swarm = 48 * 3 = 144
> Rift = 40 + 36d7 = 166
>
> Is this usual?  I suppose once I find a copy of the last spellbook there will be
> some more powerful attack spells in it, but otherwise it seems to me that all of
> these damages will increase at roughly the same rate through the rest of the
> game.

This has been on my radar for some time now.  I intend to do some
graph-plotting to visualise out how average mage spell damage compares
to reasonable combat damage through the game and adjust accordingly, but
this is some way off yet.

--
Andrew Sidwell
http://rephial.org/

[V] Mid-level Mage Observations / Questions	7 posts
..... chadhogg	2008-03-21 23:54:01	44
.......... pete m	2008-03-22 00:45:24	56
............... Andrew Doull	2008-03-22 01:21:05	15
............... chadhogg	2008-03-22 03:43:59	68
.......... will_asher	2008-03-22 02:22:28	25
.......... Hugo Kornelis	2008-03-23 00:42:07	27
.......... Andrew Sidwell	2008-03-29 12:20:46	31

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