I've been playing 2 months and just started crafting my own daggers, but I'm not sure how to compare them. Are there other attributes they have, that's worth considering apart from ob and pb?
a blackened steel kris 90 ob 2 pa
a dagger of green jade 87 ob 8 pa
a jeweled dagger 83 ob 8 pa
a curved clear dagger 81 ob 21 pa
comparing daggers
Re: comparing daggers
There are, but the other statistics are much more difficult to evaluate because they require a very systematic approach and a large sample size.
There's a very specific method that can be used to determine the damage per hit of a weapon based on the amount of exp that is gained with each hit, but you have to do it in a very rigorous manner and there's a bit of math involved. Thuvia has explained it in the past, and I suppose if the method you use to approach it isn't that of a perfectionist you'll gather a lot of worthless data.
More complicated still than that is to try and determine if different daggers have a different stab rate and if they land for higher or lower damage. Perhaps these traits simply reflect the overall offensive bonus or the weapons or the underlying damage that was tested above, but who knows if that is the case. Its possible this could be tested on mobs using Thuvia's method above - I don't know. Stab sometimes has enormous variability so this probably isn't something where you could do 30 stabs with each weapons and claim you've hammered down the average - I make no claims to any statistics expertise, but a larger sample size would likely be necessary.
There's a very specific method that can be used to determine the damage per hit of a weapon based on the amount of exp that is gained with each hit, but you have to do it in a very rigorous manner and there's a bit of math involved. Thuvia has explained it in the past, and I suppose if the method you use to approach it isn't that of a perfectionist you'll gather a lot of worthless data.
More complicated still than that is to try and determine if different daggers have a different stab rate and if they land for higher or lower damage. Perhaps these traits simply reflect the overall offensive bonus or the weapons or the underlying damage that was tested above, but who knows if that is the case. Its possible this could be tested on mobs using Thuvia's method above - I don't know. Stab sometimes has enormous variability so this probably isn't something where you could do 30 stabs with each weapons and claim you've hammered down the average - I make no claims to any statistics expertise, but a larger sample size would likely be necessary.
Re: comparing daggers
Hress just posted some interesting info regarding dagger damage over on wotmudarchives.org forums.
http://www.wotmudarchives.org/forum/vie ... f=4&t=2421
http://www.wotmudarchives.org/forum/vie ... f=4&t=2421
Re: comparing daggers
Very interesting stuff. As a person who only uses daggers for melee and not stab, the melee damage numbers of red stone, jade and clear curved are very interesting. I wondered if there would be a clear overall damage champion, but instead they appear to have setup something that requires more thought - consistency verse variability with greater range and probably a real reason to take into account the OB and PB that you want.
Edit: and I could be missing something big. More dice seems to mean more consistency, but a larger dice means more variability?
Edit: and I could be missing something big. More dice seems to mean more consistency, but a larger dice means more variability?