Feedback on Those Sweet (and Bitter)Skills --Act 2

[jack1974]

I put 50% stagger bonus for now, then we'll see

Okay, okay... you did something with the DoT caps I think and you didn't tell us!

Nope, didn't touch that code at all!

[yayswords]

Really? I had Shattered for over 5%/tick.

[jack1974]

Yes the cap is actually 7,5%:

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                                ##new put a damage cap to effects!
                                if strength>pTarget.getValue("HP")*.075:
                                    strength=pTarget.getValue("HP")*.075

but was like that since end of Act1, I don't touch that part since ages

[fabulaparva]

Popping into the middle of this staggered conversation...don't mind me!
I just had to run some Crosscutting tests with v0.8.24.6. Shea vs Lugal Hammerguard (since the previous one was against him, too)

1)Repeating the previous situation with Normal + Dark-weapons:
Primary 20 dmg Normal (att 5) + Offhand 19 dmg Dark (att 5)
Shea's att with buffs: 97
Crosscut dmg: Primary Norm 50 + Offhand Dark 53
Predicted damages (Melee vs Crosscut) + enemy stats:

Spoiler:

2)Primary 20 dmg Normal (att 5) + Offhand 18 dmg Normal (att 7)
Shea's att with buffs: 97
Crosscut dmg: Primary Norm 53 + Offhand Norm 36
Predicted damages (Melee vs Crosscut) + enemy stats:

Spoiler:

3)Primary 20 dmg Water (att 7) + Offhand 19 dmg Dark (att 5) :D:D:D
Shea's att with buffs: 97
Crosscut dmg: Primary Water 83 + Offhand Dark 50
Predicted damages (Melee vs Crosscut) + enemy stats:

Spoiler:

I guess I should return to my plan of having an arsenal of different elemental weapons....

[jack1974]

Haha nice interesting results I think the crosscut now is good, damage-wise.

[yayswords]

Yes the cap is actually 7,5%

Ah, I thought it was 5% like bleeds. It was hard to tell with such small health pools in act 1 I guess

I don't think Cross Cut needs to be discussed anymore. It's a 200% attack and no longer miscoded. If it does too much, it's because dual wield does too much. And maybe it does, but the ranger is "cursed" with having the best heal so mine doesn't get to go wild hacking and slashing like Krimm :D

[fabulaparva]

Heh, I have 4 different end-of-act-2 savefiles with ranger in them and only in one case the ranger has the heal-skill. I think I'll have to allow some wild slashing for Shea, too.... *wink*

[yayswords]

Hmm... are you talking about the row nuke?

Wide Slash: 225% damage, 15 SP, 10 delay
Spinning Strike: 375% damage, 25 SP (works out as being cheaper than WS if you use Rage), 10 delay, chance of weakening

Krimm is just gonna make fun of you

[fabulaparva]

Hmm... are you talking about the row nuke?

Eh..no I wasn't... Just saw an opportunity to make a bad pun about slashing.... *hides*

On a (slightly) more serious note: I don't prefer using the heal, what can I tell you. I don't see why I wouldn't use both Krimm and my ranger for heavy attacks and hopefully take the enemies down faster. Different playstyles, It's all cool

[yayswords]

Must be a lot of potion throwing without that heal. The row nuke will probably do rather comparable damage anyway... unless you make Krimm dual wield too.