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[dainbramage]

I was feeling masochistic, so decided to solo a SnS warrior. Anyway, shield mastery doesn't actually add what is advertised to any of the four offensive talents.

Bash and pummel - the game adds the attribute bonus a second time. This differs from doubling the attribute bonus, as the added bonus isn't improved by criticals. This can result in seeing funny things like a critical doing less damage than the normal hit before it, due to the normal hit getting high rolls and the critical low rolls.

Assault + Overpower - "maximising damage rolls" refers only to the weapon base damage, sadly. Which is at best 1.8 average damage per hit for assault (wielding starfang which has the biggest damage range of any weapon), and actually bad for overpower as in my next point...

Shield damage range - shields max damage is down as 1 due to a bug. Min damage is 5 - the engine seems to handle this fine and shield base damage is usually in the range of [1:5]. However, shield mastery forces "maximum" damage, even on shield bashes, so shield mastery actually reduces overpower's damage (on average by 6.75 with no crit boosting items).


Other-

Fisticuffs actually scale better than any weapon in the game, with an attribute bonus of 1.25 and a swing time of 2 seconds. Downsides are poor base damage (only 3), not being able to use any talents and lack of enchantments. But if you had 230+ strength your fist autoattack would be stronger than autoattacking with starfang.

[Last Darkness]

Why I prefer the offensive Shield warriors. 26 Dex for all shield talents all other stats into Strength. Use a Axe as it has a 1.1 bonus over other weapons. At 80+ strength this is more damage then any other one handed in the game (Use The Veshialle Axe) combined with Berserkers bonus and also pickup at least 1 in Poisons and use poisons on your weapon along with offensive runes.

Berserker/Templar for added survivability or be a Blood Knight and go Reaver/Berserker.


I found a crazy murderous female city elf Reaver/Berserker Warden to be particularly fun to play especialy with power of blood abilities.   

Modifié par Last Darkness, 16 janvier 2013 - 12:01 .