7 comments

• Tipa wrote:
  January 25, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  Could you go into more detail on how you gathered this data?

• Sixes wrote:
  January 25, 2008 at 3:45 pm

  I didn’t gather the data personally, I used the information posted on EQ2flames.

• Tipa wrote:
  January 25, 2008 at 4:08 pm

  Blocked at work 😛 will check it out when I get home. Thanks!

• Tipa wrote:
  January 25, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  The reason, btw, I am interested is because my inquisitor has a 100% crit rate on autoattacks, so this seems like it would be a better way of checking the worth of a weapon instead of going to Sol’s Eye and killing dozens of giants to get an idea.

  People tend to favor slower weapons to increase the crit chance per swing. But when you have 100% crits, weapon speed might become a much larger issue.

• Sixes wrote:
  January 25, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  The crit chance per swing is not increased with a faster or slower weapon.

  Consider the following:

  1. Two weapons with the same Damage Rating will do the same amount of damage over a given amount of time.
  2. For (a) to be true, a faster weapon must have a lower average damage than a slower one, for a given damage rating.
  3. Thus the faster weapon will crit more often but, for a given ratio of max to min damage (shown above as the damage ratio) but those crits will be for less, proportional to the average damage.
  4. Again, on average, those lesser crits happening more often will equal the slower, larger crits for a given damage ratio and damage rating.
  5. But slower weapons tend to have the larger damage ratio (for no good reason I can see) as well as the larger average damage (for a very good reason, see (b)).
  6. Thus to maximise the total damage gained by crits, you need the highest possible damage ratio which means the highest possible max damage which may well mean the slowest weapon.
  7. Finally the further advantage of a slow weapon is that you are less likely to hit any haste caps.
• Tipa wrote:
  January 25, 2008 at 4:50 pm

  I should have clarified: with 100% crits on autoattacks, it just becomes a modifier to base damage. I was really talking about the increased chance to *proc* per swing for slower weapons. My fault for confusing the terms. Many absolutely vital combat effects, such as knockback, interrupts and stuns that clerics can deliver depend on increasing the chance they fire per swing. Far few heals need to be cast if the inquisitor is firing off those procs at a good pace. The power of my class here is nearly entirely dependent on choosing the correct weapon.

  I have a gut feeling that slow weapons with high max damage and wide range will turn out to be best. But I am also concerned with the mace+shield combo, since often shields have passive healing bonuses or healing procs that are vital to an inquisitor’s other role in a group — healing…

• Ashlian wrote:
  May 5, 2009 at 10:17 pm

  You should also consider that spells and CA’s interrupt autotattacks if they fire when the autoattack would normally occur. Therefore, a longer delay weapon is often more useful simply becaue you can get off more spells or CA’s between each autoattack without causing it to pause. With a shorter delay weapon you’ll be seeing your autoattacks interrupted more frequently and you will therefore lower your autoattack damage.

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