Tips & Tricks

MikeB

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I gathered some general combat tips (mainly from a Steam thread by Eliadann) and put them on the Tips & Tricks page of the Wiki. It's far from complete, but it's a beginning.


@VDX_360: Unfortunately, your Beginners Tips from the Alpha Forum have been archived and I can't really remember what was in there. So if you want to add something, just let me know. The Wiki isn't open for general user editing yet, but I guess we will do this soon when the first Loreseekers start to volunteer...
 

VDX_360

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Feel like "use flanking," even it means giving up an attack. Getting 1 attack with 90% accuracy and 30% crit can be much better than 2 attacks at 60% accuracy and 10% critic... or whatever the math works out to be.
 

Sir Squirrelsalot

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Feel like "use flanking," even it means giving up an attack. Getting 1 attack with 90% accuracy and 30% crit can be much better than 2 attacks at 60% accuracy and 10% critic... or whatever the math works out to be.
I rather strongly disagree. Because for 1 without flanking expert flanking only gives 15accuracy and 15 crit and halves the targets avoidance. So unless your target has 30 avoidance it's going to be a smaller bonus. Even with the numbers being as you suggested it's STILL better to go with the two attacks.
Even if armor was eating half your damage which it is generally is less than that; 1 crit is only worth as much damage as two normal hits.
So with 90 accuracy and 30 crit you have an effective 27% chance of crit. So 1.27 hits worth of average damage.
With 60 and 10 you have an effect 6% chance to crit per attack so 1.32 hits worth of average damage.
But this is over stating the accuracy bonus of flanking, overstating the crit bonus of flanking and overstating the damage bonus of critting.

So no the advice should be to NOT sacrifice an attack to set up flanking unless you have flanking expert, low chance to hit without it, or your expecting more than 1 attacking while using that flank, or getting a rear attack. And generally sacrificing for the flanking expert or rear attack are not worth doing still unless you have a low hit chance.
 

Sir Squirrelsalot

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Ok caveat to the above. If you can kill in one hit and that would make a substantial difference then the flank attacking does have a higher chance of getting the kill. Though in that situation the crit chance is irrelevant. If the crit is relevant than the two swings is better.
 

DavidBVal

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@VDX_360: Unfortunately, your Beginners Tips from the Alpha Forum have been archived and I can't really remember what was in there. So if you want to add something, just let me know. The Wiki isn't open for general user editing yet, but I guess we will do this soon when the first Loreseekers start to volunteer...

Folks, archived threads can be accessed inside the moderators subforum.
 

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