11-07-2003, 06:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2003, 06:49 PM by Occhidiangela.)
"Useless" seems to be your favorite descriptive in that post, and I find that to be a load of nonsense.
With IS 4 or 5 hundred DR goes away on the enemy , even 800 if your +skills gets silly or you drop in an extra point or two. That means you can significantly increase your to Hit without using a BA merc, which allows you to use a Strength merc to boost your damage per arrow, or other merc to suit your tastes.
What a concept. And it is not Either Or, friend Laz, it is USE BOTH!
A single point in IS with about +6 to skills from an Amazon bow, gloves, and a circlet, which have boosts both IS and Penetrate, so you use BOTH together to cut the DR and boost To Hit.
Gee, what a thought! Still only put one point in IS to accomplish that, but the trick is to USE the damned skill, not write it off as Useless. Your tunnel vision is showing. There are a lot of ways to peel the onion, and your glib dismissal of this or that as "useless" is sloppy, very sloppy.
Bowazon DAE? I see what you are getting at, and only mildly disagree. Evade in particular is handy if you are a move and shoot player, Avoid the next best, and Dodge is handy only when you make an error and get hit by a melee monster.
With IS 4 or 5 hundred DR goes away on the enemy , even 800 if your +skills gets silly or you drop in an extra point or two. That means you can significantly increase your to Hit without using a BA merc, which allows you to use a Strength merc to boost your damage per arrow, or other merc to suit your tastes.
What a concept. And it is not Either Or, friend Laz, it is USE BOTH!
A single point in IS with about +6 to skills from an Amazon bow, gloves, and a circlet, which have boosts both IS and Penetrate, so you use BOTH together to cut the DR and boost To Hit.
Gee, what a thought! Still only put one point in IS to accomplish that, but the trick is to USE the damned skill, not write it off as Useless. Your tunnel vision is showing. There are a lot of ways to peel the onion, and your glib dismissal of this or that as "useless" is sloppy, very sloppy.
Bowazon DAE? I see what you are getting at, and only mildly disagree. Evade in particular is handy if you are a move and shoot player, Avoid the next best, and Dodge is handy only when you make an error and get hit by a melee monster.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete