If you overcap hci will it help to negate the throwing hci penalty for being too close to target?
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Throwing HCI penalty question
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It does. Wearing a Shield absolutely butchers your chance to hit with Throwing Weps, even if you have Parry. If you're too close to your target, you get a HCI penalty, and if you're too far away, you do half damage. The "sweet spot" is determined by the Throwing Weapon and your Strength. With 150 STR, a Soul Glaive has a Range of 11 Tiles, which is 1 more than any Archery weps get, but it does half damage when throwing at a target 11 tiles away.
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Stratics says http://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/throwing "Close Quarters Combat: Being too close to a target would normally cause ineffective throws. However, a player’s dexterity and throwing skill equal to Grandmaster or higher can compensate for the hit chance penalty."
Now, "can compensate" means exactly what ? Nullify the penalty ? Reduce the penalty ? Reduce how much ?
And, that's for a Grandmaster Thrower, what about a Legendary Thrower ?
Shouldn't we get perhaps some more details about how this skill really works ?
Also, I find it almost impossible with a moving target to always be able to keep the same "perfect" throwing range to avoid Underthrowing (Hit Chance penalty of 12%) and Overthrowing (47% damage reduction)..... that is why, I suspect, players tend to think that Archery is a better ranged skill then throwing because its damage is more consistent and less variable....
In the end, in between the over and under throwing penalties, with a moving target one ends up with probably overall less damage then using archery....
Now, "can compensate" means exactly what ? Nullify the penalty ? Reduce the penalty ? Reduce how much ?
And, that's for a Grandmaster Thrower, what about a Legendary Thrower ?
Shouldn't we get perhaps some more details about how this skill really works ?
Also, I find it almost impossible with a moving target to always be able to keep the same "perfect" throwing range to avoid Underthrowing (Hit Chance penalty of 12%) and Overthrowing (47% damage reduction)..... that is why, I suspect, players tend to think that Archery is a better ranged skill then throwing because its damage is more consistent and less variable....
In the end, in between the over and under throwing penalties, with a moving target one ends up with probably overall less damage then using archery....
Well... At some point in the past a device or patch definitely stated 100 throwing combined with 100 dex negated any throwing penalties but atm I couldn't quote where exactly I got that info.
That would be an interesting info if confirmed..... the throwing penalties is what I hate of this skill because, at least for me, it is impossible to always be able to throw at the "perfect" range with a target always moving....