I've done lots of reading (over the years and recently) on "max damage" from melee and while I know the standard answer is "300% - get there however you can"; I'm wondering if anyone confirm how much other factors, like skills, play into damage that might operate outside of that 300%. My understanding was that anatomy gave a small bump to damage but lumberjacking would be included in the 300%.
The reason I say this is mainly doing some asking around on the invasion damage output of other sampires (because in a group of them I'll never get a book) I'm doing a fraction of damage compared to others when all other things are the same. Typically to get to 300% damage I have 100% on my suit; I use honor (up to 100% on perfection); and I either use a slayer if possible or chivalry EoO (my chiv is 80). Even when I was honoring/using EoO (80 chiv) with 145 str; it seems like I'm STILL not doing as much damage as the other guys (unless they are all flat out lying about their damage). On a mage general using 100% energy axe (with honor/EoO) and onslaught I might do between 120-140 damage without a hit spell. Other guys are saying they do 175-200 base without honor (but using EoO).
I was finally able to copy my sampire over to Test and I came up with some pretty surprising results based on the different combo's I used on dragons and greater dragons.
I tried to test all different combos of damage percentage as well of with different skills (raising Chiv to 120 etc). For the results all test were done with 100% DI on suit and 120 tactics and a 100% cold double axe. This is what I found:
As I said before, I originally thought lumberjack was lumped into the 300% damage equation and anatomy only gave a small bump to damage (maybe 5-10 damage more per swing max). Based on my test it seems I've been very wrong for quite some time and not putting out nearly as much melee damage as I could be doing.
Can anyone confirm what the most damage output combo would be if we are talking max damage per swing? Just curious as to which damage would be wasted and which wouldn't.
Thanks!
The reason I say this is mainly doing some asking around on the invasion damage output of other sampires (because in a group of them I'll never get a book) I'm doing a fraction of damage compared to others when all other things are the same. Typically to get to 300% damage I have 100% on my suit; I use honor (up to 100% on perfection); and I either use a slayer if possible or chivalry EoO (my chiv is 80). Even when I was honoring/using EoO (80 chiv) with 145 str; it seems like I'm STILL not doing as much damage as the other guys (unless they are all flat out lying about their damage). On a mage general using 100% energy axe (with honor/EoO) and onslaught I might do between 120-140 damage without a hit spell. Other guys are saying they do 175-200 base without honor (but using EoO).
I was finally able to copy my sampire over to Test and I came up with some pretty surprising results based on the different combo's I used on dragons and greater dragons.
I tried to test all different combos of damage percentage as well of with different skills (raising Chiv to 120 etc). For the results all test were done with 100% DI on suit and 120 tactics and a 100% cold double axe. This is what I found:
- Using a dragon slayer axe (with soldier medal tali) with no EoO & using non-slayer axe (reptile cameo) with EoO at 120 Chiv & using non-slayer axe (reptile cameo) with EoO at 80 Chiv and honor seemed to give ballpark the same results. This was my base test.
- When I added 120 anatomy to the template (was previously at 0) I did more damage versus having no anatomy in every single test.
- When I added 100 lumberjack to the template on top of 120 anatomy it seemed to do the most damage out of everything.
As I said before, I originally thought lumberjack was lumped into the 300% damage equation and anatomy only gave a small bump to damage (maybe 5-10 damage more per swing max). Based on my test it seems I've been very wrong for quite some time and not putting out nearly as much melee damage as I could be doing.
Can anyone confirm what the most damage output combo would be if we are talking max damage per swing? Just curious as to which damage would be wasted and which wouldn't.
Thanks!