Thinking about taking the dive...

[Fragbait]

Another explanation is that he used Jab. They have a two-hit Jab skill, IIRC. I'd check the AB mercenary resource to be sure but the site is down at the moment.

Hi,

Now this got me curious.
This resource tells me a lvl 79 act 2 hireling has a lvl 23 jab.
I'm assuming that this is the same jab skill as the jab of the amazon, only with 2 attacks.
Jab at slvl 23 would do +51% damage, according to this resource.

I'm already foreseeing that this goes over the top, but let's see nevertheless:

1846.5 avg.dam. * 1.51 = 2788.22 avg.dam.

2788.22 * 8.29 = 23114.3 damage. I think it's save to say that this was more than enough to kill the specter, so let's shoot with around 22800 damage.

Now, 3809.5 / 22800 = 16.71%. That would mean I wasn't lucky, I had bad luck even. Then again, I have not figured in monster regeneration yet.
I can't seem to find a resource that has real figures for that at the moment, but maybe someone can spring to help.
I'll just assume that monsters regenerate 0.1% of their hp each frame for 2.5% each second (maybe that's a bit much - I don't know). I don't know how fast my merc was attacking, but I'd guess it was at least a 17 frame attack. Okay - I might enter the world of speculation, I see. But just for the fun of it:

8.29 attacks * 17 frames = 140.93 frames.
With my guessed regeneration rate, the specter will regenerate an average 3809.5 * 0.1% * 140.93 = 536.9 hp.
Thus my hireling would be fighting a 4346.4 hp monster.

Now, 4346.4 / 22800 = 19.06%

I'm still not really getting to the 20%, although I think did all the calculations rather in favor of a higher number. So now it seems that if my hireling uses a slvl 23 jab, I got rather unlucky with the series of specters, or maybe (no, it can't be, can it?), the damage the specters receive is reduced to below 20%, AD maybe not working as it is supposed to...
I mean, I don't think monsters do regenerate faster than that, do they? That would mean a regeneration of about 350 hp for a hell blood lord per second... Not bad.
And my hireling might have attacked a couple of frames faster. Could be. This would again turn the percentage lower than 19, possibly below 18.5% with 14 frame and 23000 damage dealt.
I don't quite understand this. :ph34r:


Greetings, Fragbait