For the curious or numbers guys I ran some calcs on this using the formulas listed in the help file. As they mention ToHit is Player_Dex - Monster_Dex+Random Roll (-5 to 5 including 0). If result is 1 or higher you hit (a caveat is that a roll of 5 is a Crit and always hits)J.T. wrote:Okay, since starting playing, whenever I've leveled up I've only been increasing my strength. I've now got upto level 100 and still lose against the red cyclops when trying to mine for mithril. What is the general concensus about what you should increase out of your stats and which you should just leave to weapons and armour?
Or should I just not bother mining for mithril until I'ma higher level?
I used Monster_Dex=10; and 26 points alloted to Dex or Strength, starting with 5Dex 21Str (would only hit on a crit). Avg Damage "per attack"=1.9points
the table looks like this:
Dex/STR/Avg Damage per roll(based on % chance to hit each roll)
5/21/1.9(only hits on a 5 as a crit)
6/20/1.8 (9%)
7/19/3.5 (18%)
8/18/4.9 (27%)
9/17/6.2 (36%)
10/16/7.3(45%)
11/15/8.2(54%)
12/14/8.9(67%)
13/13/9.5(72%)
14/12/9.8(81%)
15/11/10(90%)
16/10/10 (100%)
You can see that dex is the most critical factor on dealing out damage "per strike attempt", which directly relates to length of time to destroy a mob. ARMOR does reduce damage (that formula wasn't listed in the help file), but I think it might be STR-ARM...with some type of minimum damage; and any roll of 3, 4, 5 that -hits- does max STR as damage.
What's even -more- important, is this equation works exactly the same for Monster attacks on you. So anytime a mob's DEX is 2 or more greater than yours, you are going to miss 2 of 3 attacks and conversely be successfully struck 2 of 3 attacks.
Granted...there are some Mobs with absurd Stats, and then you just need to know you will only be striking about 1 of 11 attempts. But at least you can feel good knowing that since it takes a 5 to hit that mob, you'll be dealing -max- damage so their ARMOR doesn't help them.
I just started the offline game last weekend and after goofing up by not picking up some quest drops etc, I restarted yesterday, and have kept my DEX at Level +3; am wading through areas that were killing me before.
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