Thursday, February 16, 2012

Concentration potion boost

Fighting 2 yetis at once is a pain on your own even at fairly high levels. One thing I noticed was that concentration potions helped a good deal when trying to cut down yetis. I still had some trouble and had to suck back a water for healing, but not as much as when a couple of yetis were attacking and I was just running around to separate them.

Because my agility stat is quite low (30 something) my attack delay is also quite high (456). Sucking back a concentration potion drops my attack delay to 313. Checking another character on the Auldsbel server I found that my normal attack delay on Tarq was actually lower than my other character, probably due in part to Tarq's focus on the speed skill. Basically the effect of the concentration potion is that it decreases attack delay.

This got me thinking about how else to drive down the attack delay. Naturally I first thought of increasing the agility statistic. I noticed increasing agility by 1 point, at least on the non-Tarq character on Auldsbel, decreases attack delay by 2 points. So you don't have to get to a certain amount of agility for it to have an effect, each point of agility is a decrease in attack delay. Agility also increases the % evade field. Whereas a concentration only effects attack delay, increasing agility effects both attack delay and % evade (making you harder to hit and faster).

I was trying to think what would be reasonable at my level, could I really punch down attack delay in a couple of levels or would it take forever. I'm close to levelling, but at my current level, even knowing some techniques to level fast without botting (one is to pay up and use a lot of concentration potions to kill things/zombies/yetis fast), there really isn't enough statistic points available to make it worth investing in agility much more. In fact I've considered restating and taking away from agility to pump it all into strength. But I like the delay right now, it's not terrible.

I'm wondering if perhaps I'm missing something with the speed skill. I have the speed skill at level 9, but perhaps there's another component of practising the speed skill that can only happen as an archer to lower the attack delay. What I've heard is that the speed skill isn't really effective until agility 60. But I'm not convinced that last statement is a true one since I can see some difference between the character on the Auldsbel server and Tarq who has speed 9, but low agility, and still has a lower attack delay for the same amount of points invested in agility.

Whatever the case we know concentration potions significantly decrease (146 points for me) attack delay for a short period of time.

One last detail I thought of and noticed. I tried removing metal armor thinking it might decrease attack delay, it didn't. So you might as well keep your warlord plate on warriors. Where I did notice a difference was when I unequipped my Setzer, attack delay went way up to 494, meaning the Setzer actually has a significant speed advantage. So if a weapon appears in the game similar to the Setzer but with an improved speed advantage it may improve warrior playability overall in the game.

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