Lumberjacking: Not that great..

[Eric Ravenwind]

Swapped out Necro for GM Lumberjacking the other day to test it (on my sampire).
The damage increase seemed to only be 5-10 damage per hit. So, is this useless in PvM or what?

 

[Tuan]

No - LJ is not useless in PVM. You don't give us much (pronounced: any) info, so it is entirely possible that 5-10 might be about right, depending on what you were doing.

 

[CorwinXX]

GM LJ gives you 30% Damage Increase and (I don't know) probably 20 chance to 100% DI. It's about 44% DI at average.
With max DI/STR/Tactics/Anatomy you have almost 300% DI total. That means you do about 4x of base weapon damage. So LJ adds about 11% to your final damage.
GM Anatomy gives you 55% Di.

 

[Akiho]

Swapped out Necro for GM Lumberjacking the other day to test it (on my sampire).
The damage increase seemed to only be 5-10 damage per hit. So, is this useless in PvM or what?

I'm no expert but given what I did this morning, swapping out resist for animal lore (see turtle thread), at a guess I reckon I could knock a minute or maybe 2 off the encounter if I swapped in lumber instead.

May not be ideal in all situations but I would not discount it.

Edit: I always swap in Lumber for Parockyseesmush, every little helps!

 

[CorwinXX]

If you have 100 Parrying and 100 Resisting Spells you can (sometimes) switch one of them (depending on a situation) to LJ. It's a good option for a 120 Sword + 100 Tactics/Anatomy/Chivalry/Bushido/Parrying/ResistingSpells template (well it may have 120 Tactics/120 Bushido and 60+30 Chivalry)

 

[Zalan]

Lumberjacking - UOGuide, the Ultima Online Encyclopedia

According to UO Guide with GM lumberjack you have a 10% chance to get 100% base damage of the weapon.

Example:
Axe has a base damage of 14 to 17.
So you would have a 10% chance to do 14 to 17 damage before resistance is added in.

If the damage is say physical and the target has 70 physical resist damage is reduced to 4 or 5 points of extra damage.

It no longer gives the 30% bonus damage.

 

[Tuan]

The page you link to at the top disagrees with your own post. Here is a quote from the UO Guide page:
"Lumberjacks receive a Damage Increase when they wield certain weapons. The formula is Lumberjack skill ÷ 5 (plus 10% if Lumberjacking is equal to or greater than 100). At GM Lumberjacking, there is a 10% chance for a Lumberjacking damage bonus of 100% from base weapon damage."

 

[Zalan]

Okay UO Guide is a little weird with how it's worded

 

[cazador]

I've tested a pure lumber jack axer multiple ways..it's not worth the 100 skill points. The difference in damage at best times was 8-10 damage..


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[CorwinXX]

GM LJ gives you 30% Damage Increase and (I don't know) probably 20 chance to 100% DI. It's about 44% DI at average.

If chance for 100% DI is 10% (as posted above) then LJ gives 37% DI at average.

 

[chester rockwell]

LJ sucks.

 

[Zalan]

So it should be 30% DI with 10% chance for 100% weapon base damage per swing with GM lumberjack. Long as it's an appropriate weapon.

 

[CorwinXX]

As to me LJ is only good when you have 100 Parrying and replace it with 100 LJ from Soulstone for some locations.