03-09-2006, 11:46 PM
Ynir,Mar 8 2006, 08:06 PM Wrote:Spangles can't wait to replace the +15 str on her Barbarous Blade with +25 agi.
BB already has nice +AP. Besides, you can brag about %crit, but nobody cares about your AP. Rightly, or wrongly.
PS. It is really difficult to tell whether weapons for dual wield should be chanted +agi or +str. The answer is very gear-dependent and it is a problem to manage all the variables systematically. Switching enchants is not affordable.
Spangles has a Krol blade with +15 agi, and two Bone Slicing Hatchets. One hatchet is +agi, the other +str. She is switching hatchets to discern any difference, but can't at present. Another few hundred furbolg kills may tell.
What I really need are the equations that determine how agi, str, %crit, etc. contribute to the final index of killing power, whatever that is: DPS, or AP?
Are these equations known, or do I have to continue to feel out their effects emprically?
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I believe someone did a crapton of math and came out with a point where it's generally better to go with STR over AGI for Fury builds, but I can't remember if it was one of the DW specs, fast 2H, slow 2H or something else entirely - Rishana's guides may have information pertaining to fast DW (since she and her buddy Xyshina seem to be enamored of it, even though I quite frankly think it's crap compared to the tried-and-true slow-main/fast-off) and possibly the other two types of DW.
From what little I can recall, I believe it was something like 20% crit for Dualling, 25% for Two-Handing, and after that, STR becomes superior to AGI.
For me, I've always preferred small amounts of AGI over small amounts of STR (e.g. I'd rather have +7 AGI versus +7 STR), while I'll take large amounts of STR over large amounts of AGI.
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