02-15-2004, 10:43 PM
Quote:With the one handed weapon I was almost killing a monster with two hits. With the two hander I was getting around 85% off the life with two hits. So yes there seems to be a LCS but it is in no way 50% reduction in damage, more like 15%.
Hypothetical situation:
Monster has 200 life.
You deal 170 damage in one hit. It takes two hits to kill the monster.
You deal 85 damage in one hit. After two hits, you've removed 170/200 = 85% of the monster's life.
This matches your situation and also matches a 50% reduction in damage. With just two hits to kill a monster, there's a major loss in precision due to overkill and due to the variability of damage (i.e. if you have a large damage range, you could get a high one twice or a low one twice). OTOH, if you have too tough a monster, the regeneration would skew results.
Quote:Once again this was only with swords. Maybe using a claw you get extra benifits. I'll have to test this.
Claw mastery would give claws extra damage, which may prevent accurate results (as there are no two-handed claws).