12-01-2008, 04:33 PM
Quote:You would likely score no wins at all.
The only benefit you get from an unid'd Gotterdamerung is AC. While 60 AC is massive for a helm, against (normal) Diablo your AC is basicly meaningless. Simply because his Tohit is enormous.
In the test results is included Demonspike Coat, the unique Full Plate Mail. With an AC value of 100 and no drawbacks amongst its other mods, it clearly outdoes an unid'd Gotter. Yet it only scores one win.
Still not convinced ? Look at the numbers :
Warrior level = 22. Dex = 60. AC = Dex/5 + AC(items) = 12 + 60 + 10(max AC large shield) = 82.
Diablo level = 30. Base Tohit = 220 (!). Diablo's Tohit with melee = 30 + Base Tohit + 2 * (mlvl - clvl) = 30 + 220 + 2 * 8 = 266.
Chance Diablo hits the Warrior = 266 - 82 = 184. This is capped at 100%. In other words : auto-hit. Diablo will never miss.
You can see that one needs a heap of AC to make a difference. It takes at least 167 AC to reduce Diablo's chance-to-hit to below 100%. Also, the maximum useful AC is 236 as the auto-hit on dlvl 16 is 30% (this is the minimum chance-to-hit of any monster, regardless of your AC).
Note that due to a bug, Diablo's Tohit on Nightmare and Hell is much lower. If we'd magically transport the same clvl 22 Warrior to face off with Nightmare Diablo, there would only be a 38% chance to be hit by the Dark Lord. In Hell, the chance would still be 100%, but this comes mostly from the level difference.
The secret to beat Diablo in Ironman is : block and to-hit + enough damage to stun. Thus, you can see why the identified Gotterdamerung makes such a difference : it's not the AC, but the +20 to all attributes.
EDIT : almost forgot : there is no reason to leave the Gotterdamerung unid'd against Diablo since none of his attacks (including Apocalypse) do any magic/fireghtning damage.
Aye. Yet some of us are still lurking around.;)
Cheers,
Gil.
Good to know and thanks for the answer. The only reason to leave it unid´d would be if you had 1 scroll and 2 uniques, but as you point out the Gotter unid´d is basically useless at that level.