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-- Rataxes -- Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I must have failed to take into account the extra Str bonus (or the jump from 25% to 50%) when I did the math a long time ago. It was never my intention to make Tsuki a particularly *damaging* weapon.
Time to change that. While I don't agree that Blindness is as powerful as Slow, the 50%/blind/18 could stand to go back to 25%/blind/12 following your math. In addition, it was recently pointed out to me that the NPP ability on the blade is largely irrelevant: while I'm here there's no reason not to remove it.
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I'm not entirely certain what other penalties blinded creatures get, but I do know that blinded enemies will act as though they were feebleminded unless you get right next to them, and that it gives a cumulative -10 THAC0 penalty (at least that's what I get when blinded). IMHO that's more powerful than a cumulative -4 THACO/AC penalty and APR cut in half. Hell, immunity to Blindless is even more rare than immunity to Slow.
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In general, however, we never seem to include the STR damage bonus when looking at weapons. For example, Crom Faeyr:
Crom: 2d4+3 +5 elec +14 (str damage bonus) = 5+3+5+14 = 27
... also ends up being just as high. I'm not saying that it's not real, just that it's not normally part of the consideration.
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You also have to take the base STR into consideration. A person with 19 base STR would for example only get +7 dmg with the Crom Faeyr, since he already had a +7 Bonus to begin with. Crom Faeyr can indeed be one of the most damaging weapons in the game because of this, but if one wears the belt of Fire Giant Strength for instance, it's relative damage compared to other weapons is decreased.
Sola already has a +3 Dmg Bonus from his 18/21 STR, so the average damage would only be 24 for him. If he wore the belt of Fire Giant Strength, the relative damage would be even less.
The Moonblade is somewhat affected by this as well, and it's true that FoA +5 is a more damaging weapon in the hands of Sola if you combine it with Crom Faeyr, but then you will have used two weapons to achieve the same offensive power that the Moonblade achieves by itself. Using the Moonblade, you're free to use another weapon in the 2nd slot, or even use a shield (the APR would still be the same as when dual-wielding FoA and CF, since it has +1 APR).
[ 03-11-2003, 02:12 PM: Message edited by: Rataxes ]