Lab Secrets

[Boron]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Regarding Niefels and bane lords, I might note that they benefit differently from the same equipment in certain cases -- notably, bane lords ignore encumberance and rarely have much need for reinvigoration or life-draining items and can reasonably use much heavier armor. A bane lord has less reason to limit itself to a blood thorn or wraith sword, for instance.

hm but a bane lord has 42 hp so if not hit e.g. by a niefel jarl with an an weapon he will not get killed by 1 hit or ?
so with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again or ?

a wraith lord can naturally cast soul vortex so there is really little need for a life drain weapon i would agree
but for the bane lord i think it is in general quite useful + very cheap .

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Boron:
hm but a bane lord has 42 hp so if not hit e.g. by a niefel jarl with an an weapon he will not get killed by 1 hit or ?
so with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again or ?

Yes, a bane lord will be killed by a sngle hit from a gate cleaver wielded by a niefel jarl. That's 56 points of armor negating damage.

As a friendly aside, I'm thinking that English might be your second language. When asking a question you don't need to add the word "or" at the end. It would be more correct to say "So with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again?"

[Boron]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
As a friendly aside, I'm thinking that English might be your second language. When asking a question you don't need to add the word "or" at the end. It would be more correct to say "So with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again?"

yeah you guessed right . thnx for that tip .
will be hard to get rid off though .
because in german to pronounce a question you always use the word "oder" for which or is the correct english translation .
that's another problem with german :
our language is quite long most 1 : 1 translated books from english to german or the other way round the german book has about 50% more pages but in both books stands EXACTLY the same .

as you may have noticed my Posts are often very long ^^ . that's partially because we germans use more words and make longer sentences and partially because i tend to ramble sometimes much more than the "average" german .

[Boron]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Yes, a bane lord will be killed by a sngle hit from a gate cleaver wielded by a niefel jarl. That's 56 points of armor negating damage.

btw is here a good statistician who could make a small chart for me where some hitting odd percentages are shown ?

like hitting chance vs
-20 higher
-19 higher
....
-20 lower defensive rating .

would be really helpful i think .
if something like this already exists somewhere here on the Boards give me a link plz .

cause i wanna e.g. figure out if i could "swarm" niefel jarls then with an undead horde or something similiar and how my odds are then .
my second main implementation will be then to see what it really means for hitting chances in sc vs sc / semi-sc's if one has a e.g. 2 lower attack rating than his opponents defense rating .

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Boron:
i tend to ramble sometimes much more than the "average" german .

Yikes! That's really bad then.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Boron:
btw is here a good statistician who could make a small chart for me where some hitting odd percentages are shown ?

Saber Cherry has already done something along the lines of what you seek: Dominions II Combat Simulator v41

It's not a chart of to-hit chances, but a chart of what unit will statistically defeat another unit.

[Boron]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Boron:
i tend to ramble sometimes much more than the "average" german .

Yikes! That's really bad then.

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yeah i guess i could be a good politician
at least i seem to naturally have the ability to beat about the bush for hours or declare someone a quite simple thing so extensive that he even forgets what the original question was and is rather sillier after that than cleverer .
sometimes it can be a good thing :
i was able to fool many of my teachers that way . most gave me high "oral" marks in the comprehensive grammar school. ( perhaps that's a special german thing again and not so common in the usa and elsewhere dunno if that translation is good . but here in germany these oral marks counted 1/3 in the reference ) .

or in diablo 2 when trading that worked well too
loved buying a storm shield for 1 soj and trading it away 10 minutes after for 1 soj + an item worth 0,5-0,75 soj .
then for the soj a new storm shield and for the 0,75 item an additional soj and so on and so on
unfortunately i started playing lod too late so the insane dupes came before i was "soj-rich" enough to afford the real gems like pre 1.08 arcaines valour and so on
trading was the part i loved most at diablo 2 lod lol .
anyone like minded here ?