09-06-2003, 05:34 PM
I'm sorry: this topic seemed like a good excuse to talk too much about my old bear, and i've already lost the ability to stop myself.
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*ouch*
He was so great! He was lvl ~40, and I think he had ~2.1k listed damage, but that wasn't enough for me!
Nope! So I got him a pet merc, and I don't know what his damage was then, cause he never explained how passive bonuses stack with auras. But instead of calmly figuring out the situation I decided to make it worse, so I went out and got a HoW even though I didn't know if that was going to stack the same way as might, the stacking of which I didn't understand in the first place. And if I thought I was lost then, I was in for a dirty, wretched surprise! He never told me that he could only do 1/4 damage against superuniques, and bosses, and people I wanted him to kill! Looking back, he must have been too ashamed to admit it. It doesn't matter though, he's dead now! But he was so great! I was confused about him after I found out his damage was different against different targets, despite their resists, because I had always wondered if he did more damage than he would admit. Why? Because he always knocked hell cows down to a millimeter of life in the first two hits, and gave them a massive overkill on the third.
Now, a bear's max damage is almost his average damage, so "my bear does 4k" is different than "my zon does 4k (actually, 4.05k if you add in her min dmg)," but even still, it seemed like auras were stacking more powerfully than simply being added in equally to his passive bonus and multiplying total %ED by his base dmg. I could swear I recall using barbs with ~4k avg dmg, and a mastery bug to boot, that usually took 4 hits or so to kill a cow. Was there any quirk with .09 bears and PvM damage?
Sweet, I stopped talking!
WHhhhee
eeee
eeee
eee
ee
e
e
*ouch*
He was so great! He was lvl ~40, and I think he had ~2.1k listed damage, but that wasn't enough for me!
Nope! So I got him a pet merc, and I don't know what his damage was then, cause he never explained how passive bonuses stack with auras. But instead of calmly figuring out the situation I decided to make it worse, so I went out and got a HoW even though I didn't know if that was going to stack the same way as might, the stacking of which I didn't understand in the first place. And if I thought I was lost then, I was in for a dirty, wretched surprise! He never told me that he could only do 1/4 damage against superuniques, and bosses, and people I wanted him to kill! Looking back, he must have been too ashamed to admit it. It doesn't matter though, he's dead now! But he was so great! I was confused about him after I found out his damage was different against different targets, despite their resists, because I had always wondered if he did more damage than he would admit. Why? Because he always knocked hell cows down to a millimeter of life in the first two hits, and gave them a massive overkill on the third.
Now, a bear's max damage is almost his average damage, so "my bear does 4k" is different than "my zon does 4k (actually, 4.05k if you add in her min dmg)," but even still, it seemed like auras were stacking more powerfully than simply being added in equally to his passive bonus and multiplying total %ED by his base dmg. I could swear I recall using barbs with ~4k avg dmg, and a mastery bug to boot, that usually took 4 hits or so to kill a cow. Was there any quirk with .09 bears and PvM damage?
Sweet, I stopped talking!