silly question on anat - maybe for SM?

[Garm The Green]

Silly Q really.

look at anatomy on this page:
http://uo.stratics.com/content/arms-armor/combat.php

Now, the formula is:
Anatomy Damage Bonus% = (Anatomy ÷ 2) + 5%

Does this mean that if you have anat at 0.1 you'd receive a 5% base damage bonus, or is this in effect with 0 anat?

Seems like a very minor thing, but in an attempt to squeeze the most out of a garg/elf might be worth that 0.1 investment; much like the 0.1 tailor and smith i have for bods...

Thoughts?


Eg:
In practice a template might be:

120 Swords
120 Bushido
120 Parry
120 Tactics
99.9 Necromancy
50 Chivalry (80 Chivalry w/+15 Ring/+15 Bracelet)
70 Spirit Speak
0.1 Anatomy

giving ~ 86.25% base damage increase?

The other thought i had was that Pheonix replied to one of old mans posts to comment the following:

http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?t=212931

So is the formula i've used above incorrect?

Eek!

 

[Lord GOD(GOD)]

The +5 is only if Anatomy is 100 or higher.

 

[Stupid Miner]

Assuming Phoenix is right, and we have no good reason to believe he isn't,
the Stratics formula is wrong for all anatomy values lower than GM,
they should be 5% lower that the value given on those tables.

 

[Garm The Green]

kk cheers guys, sorry to be a PITA

 

[Lefty]

The Anatomy formula is broke down in "Ask the Devs"

 

[Garm The Green]

Yeah i er, linked to that in my first post ^_^ but only realised that after i'd jumped the gun and written most of the above

 

[Old Man of UO]

I did some testing with the GM anatomy bonus... yeah, you get a 5% bonus at GM, but depending on the weapon it translates only to 1-3 more DPS, before slayer effects are applied. It's not nearly as big as I thought it might be.

FYI, Phoenix isn't the only Developer to answer this question, though it has been a few years since it was acknowledged.