[Aadill]

Yay! Thanks for the fix but I think I just Daltheb'd rangers :x

What's the intended change? Archery is based off of DEX, not STR, so that should be taken into account. I'm looking through a bunch of data that only goes back to 2003/2004, with some basis from even earlier, but Archery isn't based off of STR and more importantly has more to do with it's own separate skill than anything else. I don't want to muddy the issue but I want to make sure the right numbers are used. Here's some stuff (albeit conflicting, possibly due to changes) that I found:

Here's some discussion based on some previous work from rangersglade that is no longer available circa 2003 and possibly earlier.

http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum...ead.php?t=2710

I will preface this with this quote:

http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum...2&postcount=10

"Also, has this been rechecke dpost Luclin, when the major ranger archery changes occurred?"


The major archery changes occured during Kurnak. Anything since then has just be additions to the ability (Endless Quiver, Archery Mastery, arrows, bows, etc), but the major changes to the way archery works revolved around implementing Trueshot and changing the skill after introduction to alter the way bows worked with the skill.

This should help indicate a before and after effect, even though the dates are off. I'm trying to find more info as I go along:

Circa 2003

the easiest way to know archery damage : like any weapon, a bow + arrow will have a damage/delay : total damage is sum of bow damage and arrow damage, and the same thing apply for delay (well, in fact delay = bow delay because until now, all arrows have 0 delay).
The fact is damage calculation does not work the same on archery and on melee, but the difference is simple : with a given weapon damage, archery will do 2 times less damage than melee.
Meaning a 20damage bow with a 2 dmg arrow will do the same damages than a 11 dmg weapon (with a 0 DB). fact is delay will prolly be more important, and u will lose the melee DB.
Meaning also that all formulas u use for melee will apply to archery if u use ((bow dmg + arrow dmg) /2) instead of (wpn dmg) and DB = 0

Circa 2004 from the Al'Kabor server:

http://www.eqmac.com/forums/viewtopi...4631&view=next

Range calculation is the one posted on the Ranger forum, (dex + skill + lvl) / 200 * (bow + arrow)


from this excercise the highest hit value i saw was 84
your calculator gave 84.645 (i did not add the bonus values in parenthesis) *

*This references a list of damage bonuses for his bow and arrow

no damage bonuses in the set i listed. (other than those attached to bow and arrow)