Meat kabobs and range attack

[Chanse]

Last night hunting beetles I notice my damage was only 3-5 difference when using a kabob. Maybe it depends on the mod you are fighting?

[Peppara]

Did the beetle use Rhino Guard? That will affect dmg big time.

[ZQM]

Fighting Bats in Garliage, my damage only went up from 78 to 82 using kabobs. Given my ranger is only 36 so the ATK boost wouldn't be huge, it still goes up very low.

[DrSerpico]

low dmg increases with mithka

I'm offering a secondary explanation to the low dmg increase from mithkas...

If you've read about str/atk and it's effects on dmg, you know that atk raises dmg in an exponential way, which means that the more atk you get, the more dmg EACH extra point af atk conrtibutes.

Clarifying example. raising outside atk from +10 to +15 might give +4dmg on average.. raising from +20 to +25 will give you +8dmg. Something like this. The raise in atk in both cases are 5, but the dmg gained by the +5 atk differs depending on how high atk is already. (Fictional numbers to explain the effect.)

So if you're in the lower levels, or not too decked on atk, the extra atk from the mithkabob won't bring you a huge dmg increase, since the raise on the dmg curve is still not especially steep.

That MIGHT be an explanation to why the gain from mothkas differ so much from person to person. Anyways, my attempt at straightening a few ? > !. Good luck!

[Peppara]

Originally posted by ZQM


Fighting Bats in Garliage, my damage only went up from 78 to 82 using kabobs. Given my ranger is only 36 so the ATK boost wouldn't be huge, it still goes up very low.

Thats it? With my RNG at 32 I was doing those kinds of numbers without a mithkabob on bats and with mithkabos I would routinely do 90-100+ What equipment do you have? I even had some 400+ dmg barrages :D

[ZQM]

Did you have WAR sub? That might have been it. Only time I broke triple digits was with crits. Also Dia might have something to do with it, I don't recall Dia ever being casted.

At the time (party started when I was 33)

Range: Great Bow+1
Arrows: Horn Arrows
Weapons: Dual Archer Daggers
Head: Royal Footman Headband
Body: Centurion's Scale Mail
Hand: Royal Footman Gloves
Legs: Martial Slacks
Feet: Royal Footman's Clogs
Neck: Ranger's Necklace
Rings: Beetle Rings +1
Waist: Mercenary Captain's Belt
Back: Nomad's mantle

[Ninjitsu]

Mithkabobs raise agi, str, and attack by a percentage. I NEVER leave home without them, EVER. They allow me to do significantly more damage.

I just got out of Garlaige Citadel a while ago too. My hits were on par with Peppara's.

I think I used:

great bow+1 (lvl 30 bow)
2 archer knives
horn arrows
horn rings+1
genin earring
martial slacks
mage sandals
ranger necklace
drone earring (just recently upgraded from a +2)
+5 evade arms (forgot the name)
+5 evade cloak (forgot the name)
+5 evade circlet
cuir vest
a merc belt

I used /nin in there instead of /war also.

I remember doing like 90-100+ damage to bats in there with Mithkabobs. Barrage hits were 280s to 300's mostly. I think I may have reached a 380-ish barrage in there one time.

Oh, and yes, my PTs were enfeebling with dia

[Peppara]

I sub NIN and I think its because I was using some of my RSE which gives +str bonus maybe? This stuff is close to what I had at the time I am sure

I know currently have:

Hawkers Knife
Archer's Knife
Great Bow + 1
Horn Arrows
Horn Rings +1
Drone Earings
Rangers Necklace
Merc Captains Belt
Savage Seperates
Savage Gaiters
Savage Guantlets
Bastokan Cuissases (+5 Ranged attack and +5 Ranged Accuracy under nations control)
Nomads Mantle
Sandorian Bandana

Working on a second hawkers knife