Post by Variaz on May 20, 2011 10:13:00 GMT -5
In 0.5, I'm pretty sure melee can do great damage. With high enough weapon skill levels, you get guaranteed max rolls on your weapons, which can make a big difference. The maxed blows are very noticeable. Not to mention extra blows are easier to get than extra shots.
The max roll thing is extremely noticeable on powerful weapons. With a 10d10 weapon, how often are you going to roll a natural 100? Never. With enough skill, you get guaranteed chance to always roll a 100. Then it gets multiplied by strength, to_d and special abilities. Big difference here!
The one thing I could see, however, may be related to combat feats. With ranged, you're almost always using a special shot, as all you need is to put enough points in the ability to cover all your extra shots. While to do that with melee, you need to put points in Combat Feats, which I get the feeling some players don't do.
If you don't use it, you gimp your melee power a lot. Special abilities are the only thing in 0.5 that does multiplicative damage, and so are very powerful. For example, if you do on average 5000 damage per blows, using a 5 points Spin Attack doubles that to 10000 every time you use it. Make it 10 points and you get no less than 15000 damage.
The max roll thing is extremely noticeable on powerful weapons. With a 10d10 weapon, how often are you going to roll a natural 100? Never. With enough skill, you get guaranteed chance to always roll a 100. Then it gets multiplied by strength, to_d and special abilities. Big difference here!
The one thing I could see, however, may be related to combat feats. With ranged, you're almost always using a special shot, as all you need is to put enough points in the ability to cover all your extra shots. While to do that with melee, you need to put points in Combat Feats, which I get the feeling some players don't do.
If you don't use it, you gimp your melee power a lot. Special abilities are the only thing in 0.5 that does multiplicative damage, and so are very powerful. For example, if you do on average 5000 damage per blows, using a 5 points Spin Attack doubles that to 10000 every time you use it. Make it 10 points and you get no less than 15000 damage.
