High Dmg vs. Fast weaponsFollow

I found the same thing. Spent 2g on a high dmg/low speed weapon, but found it did the same as others on my sneak attacks. So now i go for fast weapons with decent agility & strength buffs. Always dual wield too.

So can anyone tell me what's best? Looking at weapons I have been considering the high damage low speed debate. I have been calculating median damage over delay. So:

(((HighDamage - LowDamage) / 2) + LowDamage) / Delay
In an example:
4 - 11 damage; 2.1 delay -vs- 2 - 7 damage; 1.2 delay
-Math-
(((11 - 4) / 2) + 4) / 2.1) = 3.57 damage/second
-vs-
(((7 - 2) / 2) + 2) / 1.2 = 3.75 damage/ second

So... Am I correct? I mean is this really the weapon for me? Do I really want to sacrife high amounts of damage for speed of damage?

Akilez

Keep in mind as a scout you'll rarely hit that maximum damage, since your STR is merely average. So if you have the choice between a weapon with <High Minimum Damage and Low Delay>, or <High Maximum Damage and High(er) Delay>... don't hesitate to choose the first.

So when shopping for dual-wield wpns be sure to look at L/D in addition to the averages stated above.


Unless you're a big beefy berserker or something with 150 Str... then you can look more at H/D .

I meant an assassin who uses spear and he says he gets moe damage. I perfeer dueling weapons(using a sword and a dagger atm) was wondering if any assassins noticed a difference with spears.

What you are not considering is poison... as it is, poison will keep hitting and restarting the timer on the DOT portion... I used to use purple poisons as they had the highest end DOT... what I have learned since seeing my damage on a parser is this... by using fast mele weapons.. and a poison with the smallest dot and biggest front end damage... I am doing way more damage. for instance instead of hitting for say 50 up front and getting two ticks of 88 DOT damage before I hit it againand start it over... now i get 124 up front and 25 dots twice..
Sounds like it all evens out but... consider when you use tripple shot or such.. i usually proc poison on each of the hits.. in a fight when i back up i can lay out 7 arrows in about5 seconds... each of those arrows hit for 124 instead of 50.. then i get a few dots of 50 before i back up and do it again.with good arrows and good poison you can do astounding damage.
Anyway.. if you hit more often, you can proc poison more often.. and thats where you get the bonus.

If you want to do more damage simply upgrade your skills I recently spent a buttload of cash upgrading a large amount of my skills, best move i have ever made. For instance Shadow Blade, the high damage stealthed attack used to do approximatly 100 damage at app3 I now have Adept 3 and it does roughly 275 on armored baddies to 350 on animals. Upgrade... Its worth it. And if anyone charges you more than 20g youre being ripped off! Or go and get your own clusters and have them made for 50s.