10-13-2003, 08:06 PM
You can always try equipping life/mana leech and see if every hit lights up red/blue.
Although I think that the physical damage always hits, monsters do have blocking, which makes it hard to tell. I assume that the missed hits are due to monsters running out of melee range or from blocking.
The next time I play, I will try to find a boss and compare my normal attack and my lightning skill attack.
In any case, if I'm doing fine in act 5 nightmare on players 3 so dexterity shouldn't be too much of an issue. Even if it is an issue, a mod with ignore monster defence would solve the problem.
However, I still like to invest in dexterity for the extra blocking. A point in penetrate is needed for piercing so i take it too... not to mention that the valk gets AR bonus from it.
.... which reminds me.... Get a valk!! She's more useful than my holy freeze merc who dies so easily. A level 17 valk gets an elite pike. Anything that is lightning immune, I leave to my valk to handle the job. That's why it's easy to solo as an amazon.
Although I think that the physical damage always hits, monsters do have blocking, which makes it hard to tell. I assume that the missed hits are due to monsters running out of melee range or from blocking.
The next time I play, I will try to find a boss and compare my normal attack and my lightning skill attack.
In any case, if I'm doing fine in act 5 nightmare on players 3 so dexterity shouldn't be too much of an issue. Even if it is an issue, a mod with ignore monster defence would solve the problem.
However, I still like to invest in dexterity for the extra blocking. A point in penetrate is needed for piercing so i take it too... not to mention that the valk gets AR bonus from it.
.... which reminds me.... Get a valk!! She's more useful than my holy freeze merc who dies so easily. A level 17 valk gets an elite pike. Anything that is lightning immune, I leave to my valk to handle the job. That's why it's easy to solo as an amazon.