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Topic subjectDoes the effect of high damroll scale as it goes higher?
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29726, Does the effect of high damroll scale as it goes higher?
Posted by Arrna on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
I fought Gzurweeg A LOT pre-bigweapon, during-bigweapon and post-bigweapon.

I'll just make some examples here as I don't remember the exact numbers.

When he had around 150-200 charges he hit me for DEMOS/DEVAST trough stoneskin, aura, shield, protection vs good. (without sigil of pain)

With his 300ish charge weapon he hit me for DEMOS/DEVAS trough stoneskin, aura, shield, protection vs good. (without sigil of pain)

(It might have been MANGLE/MASSACRE but I can't recall correctly and haven't dugg up the logs.)

My point is that he didn't seem to hit much harder even though he most likely had another 80-90 damroll. Also when he had 60ish charges on his weapon he didn't hit that much weaker than he did with his 300 charge weapon, maybe MASSACRES through those protections or so. One would think that 200ish more damroll would make a bigger difference.

I remember fighting Ravon and Waris and they seemed to be hitting A LOT harder through protections even with less charges. So does it scale? Or has there been a change that makes it scale down?

Thank you! :D
29727, RE: Does the effect of high damroll scale as it goes higher?
Posted by Daevryn on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Generally, damroll does not scale. That being said, you slap on that much DR possibly plus racial resistance and you're not going to see a huge difference in adding 100 damroll.
29728, Generally? So it can scale in some instance?
Posted by Arrna on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Or am I just reading to much into that sentance?
29729, Might be some capping thing?
Posted by Daurwyn2 on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Can't remember capping damage comes before protections are applied, or after.
29730, For a long time Gzur had a ghostly scimitar as his unholy...
Posted by TMNS_lazy on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
...it's avg 21.

Cabdru's was (reportedly, never ID'd Mel-Kartha personally :() 33.
Ravon's was 31? not sure, I know the whip is over 30.
Gzurweeg had that same whip the second time he had a big unholy (I think).

29734, I have the whip
Posted by Daurwyn2 on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
It's 31 or 33, I think.
29735, "have" should read "had" nt
Posted by Daurwyn2 on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
nt
29782, Ignore TMNS
Posted by Dwoggurd on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
He has no idea how avr/damroll works, nor he can understand why I didn't care about weapon average at all (when I had many charges) and why I used 21 avr sword as my primary and 6 avr sword as my secondary. :)
29784, Actually, the 6 avg sword I don't get either....
Posted by Arrna on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
... but I'm not that familiar with that sword really.