Attack and Weapon Skill Effect on Max Hit

Barlu · #1 05-09-2019, 12:07 AM

I just dinged 46 on my Pally. When leveling up I have used a sword of blessings and Massice Dragon Claw Shard and never leveled up 2hs and it was at 1 skill. Got a Natures Defender tonight and have some questions about max damage.

With a 19 damage sword of blessings I can hit in the 70s and with the Shard I can top 100 dmg per attack with 142 strength.

With the Natures Defender I had a max hit of 91 but started at 1 skill. After hacking yetis for 20 minutes I’m up to 15 skill and still a max hit of 91. I tried using Yaulp to increase strength to see if the max hit would increase but it still looked like 91(only tested on 1 mob so needs more testing).

My question is do skill cap which effects attack have an impact on max hit? What could be causing it to be so low? I expected it to be higher since I thought 2 handers have a higher damage bonus and I feel like my monk hits much harder with a 28 damage 2 hander and similar strength. The wiki doesn’t show attack or weapon skills in the damage formulas. 91 is pretty underwhelming given the high delay and that a 28 damage 1hs has a higher max hit. Thanks in advance for the help.

Snaggles · #2 05-09-2019, 12:21 AM

You can dump like 50 skill points before it gets expensive. Yea max skill vs 15 skill is a HUGE difference. It directly increase attack power, I bet you are like 500 points shy (switch weapons with your inventory/stats open and look at the stat numbers change).

If impatient grab a Ornate Rune Blade or Nathsar and head to WL for a faction group. Should max it pretty quick.

DMN · #3 05-09-2019, 02:05 AM

(weapon skill + strength - 75 / 100) (weapon base damage) + (level based bonus damage) = max hit

And if your weapon skill + str stats aren't high enough you will see no bonus to your damage beyond the level based bonus damage+ 2 x weapon base damage.. Sounds like that's where you are at right now and is why yaulp didn't increase your max hit.

And currently 2handed weapons don't have a damage bonus.

elwing · #4 05-09-2019, 05:15 AM

Don't 2hander have the same bonus as one hander atm? That is low and only level based? We definitely don't have the big, delay and level based bonus for sure...

Barlu · #5 05-09-2019, 07:54 AM

Thanks for the information. I always thought skill level and attack impacted how often your attacks landed but didn’t realize it also impacted max hit. I wonder what the break point on skill will be when the max hit goes up. I will try to log it and see.

DMN · #6 05-09-2019, 05:38 PM

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Thanks for the information. I always thought skill level and attack impacted how often your attacks landed but didn’t realize it also impacted max hit. I wonder what the break point on skill will be when the max hit goes up. I will try to log it and see.

When the sum of your str and skill goes over 275 you will start to see it go up.