Um... no.
I was simply comparing them, not aiming at a particular style to play your character. Therefore, to be complete, one needs to mention the difference in AC (and actually light radius, gna). I took into account that he was talking about LAW. But actually I thought it is not necessary to mention that AC is of no concern if you play that way. As for mana: it is 50, I misstyped (40 from the mana bonus and 10 from the +all).
Now I wish I did not delete the part where I was working with several calculations. To get to the point: you need about 100 strength points through your equipment to have the necessary minimum damage to be really sure about it (without critical hits). Of course one needs not to be perfect and these calculations count only for (about) max level anyway. But taken this into account it is even harder early on and you might ask yourself if it is really worth it. You can gain 45 if you use gold/heavens jewelry. Another 20 if you use OH and yet another 20 if you want to use an armor with the giants-suffix. Which adds up to +85. So you would have to use gold/titans jewelry (at least some) and therefore weaken your to hit, your mana and your life. Of course: you could kill the Advocate (maybe) with one blow... but you have low resistances and low life. Assuming you use at least two gold/heavens jewels you have +30 all, which is 60 life. Therefore your level 49/50 warrior has 376 life. A fireball deals, according to JG, 66-106 damage (I guess no splash included, so it is actually something like ~120). Wanna calculate (assuming some obsidian armor... although in the case of level 16 you can obviously use a ruby armor... if you want to carry it with you all the time, that is)? At least I tend to have a bigger amount of life for the sake of comfortability. As there is rarely one lonely Advocate around it might get (a bit) annoying to drink or heal every few seconds. Then there are Blood Knights. Of course these are easy, but together with the permanent shooting of the Advocates it might, again might, get difficult to successfully battle them. Especially when your chances to him them are only at around 80-85%. As for me, I prefer hitting almost everytime (95%) with a bit less damage over missing 15-20% or more of the time with more damage.
It really depends on equipment and level as you have a set goal. Without a proper level and proper equipment you - simply said - have no chance to achieve this goal. And for what? Having a chance to kill one enemy type with one blow? There are other levels than 16, you know? Or would you want to switch equipment everytime you reach it? Maybe I am just lazy, but why would I want to have my inventory full with alternate gear? I am not a player who really loves playing SWAT style.
On the other hand, I must admit that I have little experience with low AC *axe* (especially BS as I tried this only once with really inferior equipment) warriors and maybe am thinking too much about possibilities. And yes, I do ignore the fact that more damage helps against every demon out there. But saladin was referring to Advocates specifically, so...
And another thing: my point is something about perfection. That is taking out the enemy 100% of the time without a critical hit. I do not know whether this is even wanted. If it really is only about getting a higher %-chance to kill them off with one blow without sacrificing too much I may be exaggerating a bit.
Quote:Hum... well... depends on what you need... or want. [...]
One might debate whether the AC is really important. Depending on what you play it can be important.
I was simply comparing them, not aiming at a particular style to play your character. Therefore, to be complete, one needs to mention the difference in AC (and actually light radius, gna). I took into account that he was talking about LAW. But actually I thought it is not necessary to mention that AC is of no concern if you play that way. As for mana: it is 50, I misstyped (40 from the mana bonus and 10 from the +all).
Now I wish I did not delete the part where I was working with several calculations. To get to the point: you need about 100 strength points through your equipment to have the necessary minimum damage to be really sure about it (without critical hits). Of course one needs not to be perfect and these calculations count only for (about) max level anyway. But taken this into account it is even harder early on and you might ask yourself if it is really worth it. You can gain 45 if you use gold/heavens jewelry. Another 20 if you use OH and yet another 20 if you want to use an armor with the giants-suffix. Which adds up to +85. So you would have to use gold/titans jewelry (at least some) and therefore weaken your to hit, your mana and your life. Of course: you could kill the Advocate (maybe) with one blow... but you have low resistances and low life. Assuming you use at least two gold/heavens jewels you have +30 all, which is 60 life. Therefore your level 49/50 warrior has 376 life. A fireball deals, according to JG, 66-106 damage (I guess no splash included, so it is actually something like ~120). Wanna calculate (assuming some obsidian armor... although in the case of level 16 you can obviously use a ruby armor... if you want to carry it with you all the time, that is)? At least I tend to have a bigger amount of life for the sake of comfortability. As there is rarely one lonely Advocate around it might get (a bit) annoying to drink or heal every few seconds. Then there are Blood Knights. Of course these are easy, but together with the permanent shooting of the Advocates it might, again might, get difficult to successfully battle them. Especially when your chances to him them are only at around 80-85%. As for me, I prefer hitting almost everytime (95%) with a bit less damage over missing 15-20% or more of the time with more damage.
It really depends on equipment and level as you have a set goal. Without a proper level and proper equipment you - simply said - have no chance to achieve this goal. And for what? Having a chance to kill one enemy type with one blow? There are other levels than 16, you know? Or would you want to switch equipment everytime you reach it? Maybe I am just lazy, but why would I want to have my inventory full with alternate gear? I am not a player who really loves playing SWAT style.
On the other hand, I must admit that I have little experience with low AC *axe* (especially BS as I tried this only once with really inferior equipment) warriors and maybe am thinking too much about possibilities. And yes, I do ignore the fact that more damage helps against every demon out there. But saladin was referring to Advocates specifically, so...
And another thing: my point is something about perfection. That is taking out the enemy 100% of the time without a critical hit. I do not know whether this is even wanted. If it really is only about getting a higher %-chance to kill them off with one blow without sacrificing too much I may be exaggerating a bit.
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Let me elaborate on what Sheep said... it's called humour.[/quote]
Let me elaborate on what Sheep said... it's called humour.[/quote]