08-15-2023, 06:38 PM
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Planar Protector
Join Date: Feb 2012
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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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There is NOTHING in any of these posts that makes an actual argument that INT provides an advantage. Your entire argument is that "STR is not really that useful", even though its advantages can be MATHEMATICALLY DEMONSTRATED. In contrast, you cannot even demonstrate a single reasonably plausible scenario in which a well-played SK will benefit from extra INT (you merely offer the vague suggestion that extra mana it may allow for a life-saving FD), much less provide mathematical evidence of the sort that can be furnished in support of STR.
To reiterate:
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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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DSM has yet to articulate a compelling argument or provide any actual evidence for his contention that the added mana from 20 INT confers a meaningful advantage for an Iksar SK. His only points are literally, "You should pump INT because it's harder to cap" and "It could theoretically give you enough extra mana to FD and save your life one day". But neither of these statements are logical arguments for pumping INT over STR:
1) CHA is the hardest stat for an SK to cap, so why not pump it? The answer is obvious: because it doesn't confer enough of an advantage to do so. The same logic applies to INT in this case.
2) Pumping INT just because you might one day get off an extra FD from it makes no sense. Theoretically, a lot of things might happen in EQ. Theoretically, extra STR might also make the narrow difference between life and death in some bizarre, highly improbable scenario. Or extra DEX might give you an Epic proc that saves your life. Or extra STA might give you just enough buffer not to die before a CH lands. Because of this, a theoretical argument for INT is no more valid than a theoretical argument for any other stat, most especially STR.
Why? Because STR is the only stat that provides IRREFUTABLE AND CONCRETE benefits both IN and OUT of combat, as has been exhaustively demonstrated in this thread. Whether the precise value is 4 or 5% added DPS is irrelevant, as is how many extra kills this might generate per hour in your tortured examples. The point is that this benefit exists. It is real. You cannot handwave it away. It is a real benefit that can be objectively proven. Added carry weight is also a real, concrete benefit. There is no argument against it. Carrying more weight provides meaningful value. Everyone who has played EQ understands this intuitively.
In contrast, there remains no way to demonstrate any sort of conclusive value from the extra mana provided by INT. SKs do not EVER dump their mana 100-0 in the way that a Wizard, Druid or Cleric regularly does, or the way that another caster might occasionally have need to do. Good SKs spend most of their active playtime hovering between 25% and 75% mana. They leave enough reserve in the tank to account for any emergencies, while ensuring that they don't waste any mana regen by sitting around at full mana. Because of this, adding extra mana on top of their mana pool provides little in the way of value to begin with, and whatever value it does provide simply cannot be accounted for accurately. It's like if your car holds holds enough gasoline to drive 500 miles without filling up, but you never drive more than 50 miles at a time. In this case, expanding your gas tank makes NO SENSE and provides you zero value. And that goes exactly the same for expanding the SK's mana pool by pumping INT in this scenario.
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