At 06:11 PM 1/10/00 -0500, you wrote:

>From: imari_dellimore@...
>
>To-HIT rolls are affected by your ATTCK rating. There are several ways to
>raise
>this:
>
>1)
>Increase your str. I play a level 45 paladin aswel. His melee skills
>capped at
>level 40, so his attack rating stopped going up EXCEPT when I got new
>equipment
>for him...Equipment that raised his STR. I like grouping with shamen or Druids
>because with then in the group I can get my ATTCK above 900 if I yalup. THis
>DRASTICALLy reduces the amount of misses I get.
>
>2) Wolf form or any other state altering spells - enchanters get werewolf
>form -
>gives them 30 str! massive AC and HUGE attack rating buff (but of course they
>cant melee anyway). The ONE time in my EQ life when I saw my attack
>rating hit
>999 I was grouped with a level 49 shaman, level 43 bard and 50 druid. wolf
>form,
>str, Bard song and yalup stacked and my attack when through the roof!!! I
>loved
>it!

note that it is just *part* of the ATK rating which helps your to hit
roll. gordon posted
that they combined the to hit portion of ATK with the max damage/chance to do
max damage portion back in beta. so when your str goes up, you are really
changing
your max damage and chance to hit max damage. altho i am thinking back to my
ad&d days where strength affected your to hit roll as well, heh. oh well,
i believe
gordon says str does NOT affect to hit but i didn't save any of those old
posts cuz
i'm not into min/maxing or being a roll player. i'd rather just hang out
and have fun
and meet people (although i'm not a huge role player either, heh).