07-09-2003, 09:09 PM
First of all, settle down. No need to get bristly because somebody commented -- intelligently, I might add -- on what you said.
Ghostiger is right anyway. Multi with knockback is THE crowd control attack. I can't think of a better one that also dishes out big damage while controlling it.
Second, the Zon, at least in 1.09 (and most likely 1.10) has the highest damage output of any character. This isn't my opinion, it's pretty much fact. When you can hit up to two dozen monsters at once, three times a second, you're the damage king (queen).
Don't believe me? Here are some numbers (I may get the -25% dmg with MS wrong since I'm not sure when the dmg is reduced, but I'll assume it's after all the other dmg calculations...also, I suck at math.):
My lvl 63 'Zon does about 1000 average dmg per shot with a normal attack. With MS, that's 750 dmg per shot. I use Goldstrike Arch and 40% IAS so I have a 8/2 attack, which means I fire slightly more often than 3X a second (given 25 fps, the framerate used internally). That means I do 750 x 3 = 2250 dmg a second to a single monster. I have functionally 100% pierce (I think it's 98%), which means in a crowd of, say, 24 monsters, each arrow in each volley could do 2250 * 4 (pierce max) = 9000 damage per second.
Figure that you should be able to hit, with max MS and 100% pierce, 90% (based on my Zon's AR) of those 24 monsters every time you shoot, and you're looking at 750 * 24 * 3 * 0.9 = 48,600 damage per second. Oh, but of course, I'm not even counting my critical strike %, the fact that I use gore riders, so there's crushing blow, some deadly strike added into that crit strike, and the fact that FA probably dishes out more damage faster to a tight mob than does MS.
Oh, and besides, this is a lowly lvl 63 zon with her wee Goldstrike. A lvl 85 zon with a Buriza or cruel elite would probably do about triple that damage.
Know of any other characters that can dish out over 100,000 damage a second?* Oh, and she can do that while wearing Cleglaws, so take that, crowds.
Ignatz
*Caveat: Static Field can do it, but only sometimes, CE can do it, but only rarely, 24 dudes lined up and sitting on a high level fire wall might get there, but talk about situational :blink:
Ghostiger is right anyway. Multi with knockback is THE crowd control attack. I can't think of a better one that also dishes out big damage while controlling it.
Second, the Zon, at least in 1.09 (and most likely 1.10) has the highest damage output of any character. This isn't my opinion, it's pretty much fact. When you can hit up to two dozen monsters at once, three times a second, you're the damage king (queen).
Don't believe me? Here are some numbers (I may get the -25% dmg with MS wrong since I'm not sure when the dmg is reduced, but I'll assume it's after all the other dmg calculations...also, I suck at math.):
My lvl 63 'Zon does about 1000 average dmg per shot with a normal attack. With MS, that's 750 dmg per shot. I use Goldstrike Arch and 40% IAS so I have a 8/2 attack, which means I fire slightly more often than 3X a second (given 25 fps, the framerate used internally). That means I do 750 x 3 = 2250 dmg a second to a single monster. I have functionally 100% pierce (I think it's 98%), which means in a crowd of, say, 24 monsters, each arrow in each volley could do 2250 * 4 (pierce max) = 9000 damage per second.
Figure that you should be able to hit, with max MS and 100% pierce, 90% (based on my Zon's AR) of those 24 monsters every time you shoot, and you're looking at 750 * 24 * 3 * 0.9 = 48,600 damage per second. Oh, but of course, I'm not even counting my critical strike %, the fact that I use gore riders, so there's crushing blow, some deadly strike added into that crit strike, and the fact that FA probably dishes out more damage faster to a tight mob than does MS.
Oh, and besides, this is a lowly lvl 63 zon with her wee Goldstrike. A lvl 85 zon with a Buriza or cruel elite would probably do about triple that damage.
Know of any other characters that can dish out over 100,000 damage a second?* Oh, and she can do that while wearing Cleglaws, so take that, crowds.
Ignatz
*Caveat: Static Field can do it, but only sometimes, CE can do it, but only rarely, 24 dudes lined up and sitting on a high level fire wall might get there, but talk about situational :blink:
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