Timeline for What properties make a magic weapon befit a Rogue more than a DEX-based Fighter?
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 15:47 | comment | added | Benjamin Olson | @Yakk That seems plausible enough. You should probably do your own answer write up because I don't really understand your calculations enough to do them justice and you are clearly putting a lot of work into them. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 15:36 | comment | added | Yakk | So the trick was to split the sneak damage from the normal damage. Calculating "chance of landing sneak attack" is easy. Calculating "chance of landing main hand and off hand hit" is easy. Doing it combined gets annoying; but we don't care if we are only calculating the average damage. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | Yakk | Aha, typo. Gap is smaller yet still remains. Actually gap is now teeny tiny (like a fraction of a single point of damage per round) -- at that point, who gets the +2 weapon first is a toss up. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 15:27 | comment | added | Benjamin Olson | @Yakk I didn't find that that sort of framework played well with the relationship between sneak attack damage and two weapon fighting (since it really only matters that one of the Rogue's attacks hit) and gave up there, but I may have given up too soon. I'll try and give it another shot. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 15:27 | comment | added | Yakk | See ethercalc.org/7wxx4214x4yj -- We can compare what changing a +1 mainhand on the fighter does compared to the rogue. At an "old" accuracy of 50% the fighter DPR goes up to 17.85 from 14.825. The rogue DPR goes from 19.11 to 20.97. So +3 DPR on the fighter and +1.86 DPR on the rogue. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 14:58 | comment | added | Yakk | "using an example of fairly typical magic weapons" -- can you add some math to that paragraph to justify your supposition? The effect on DPS should be a function of (AC-ATK) (ie, to hit target number). For the fighter, it is merely (chance to hit) * (damage per hit) * number of attacks + (chance to crit) * (extra damage per crit) * number of attacks. | |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:00 | comment | added | nitsua60 | Para. 2 is missing a right paren to close the parenthesis--I'm not sure where you'd intended it or I'd edit myself. | |
| Mar 19, 2019 at 23:43 | history | edited | Benjamin Olson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2019 at 22:22 | history | answered | Benjamin Olson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |