A good way to look at delay is in seconds. So a weapon
with delay of 50 will attack once every 5 seconds,
while a fs dagger with delay of 19 will attack once
every 1.9 seconds.
Give your pet a very slow weapon and you will notice
that monsters will attack twice or even three times
before you get to attack. Start a 1st level warrior
and test this. Give him a rusty scythe and go fight.
Then give him a tarnished dagger(sharpened rusty,
should cost like 5 silver total) with half the delay
of the scythe and go fight. You WILL notice a big
difference.
Darkmoon Somberlight
(who used to love meleeing while having a combine
dagger and vampiric embrace/banshee aura/grim aura)
--- Tony B <
tonyb72@...> wrote:
> what ever made you think it goes by rounds? if you
> attack every 3 seconds
> (or whatever), that is how fast you attack. eq
> doesnt use ad&d-esque
> 'inititive'.
>
> belphenor
>
>
> >From: dicey@... (Dicey)
> >Reply-To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
> >To: <EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com>
> >Subject: RE: [EQ_Necromancer] Digest Number 165
> >Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:37:31 +0100
> >
> >As long as I am at it. What is the benefit of
> attacking quicker? It seem
> >to be important to everyone, but I don't understand
> why. The combat system
> >seems to go by rounds, so having a faster weapon
> would not mean more hits.
> >The only benefit I can see is that your pet is more
> likely to do damage
> >before it dies rather than dying before it get to
> hit for that round.
> >Getting in one more hit doesn't seem like a good
> enough reason for everyone
> >to go through so much effort to give their pet a
> weapon with a small delay.
> >What am I missing?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Aazen1@... [mailto:Aazen1@...]
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:10 AM
> >To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
> >Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Digest Number 165
> >
> >
> >From: Aazen1@...
> >
> >Well, you should not give your pet say a rusty
> halberd, or some other slow
> >weapon after this as yes it will only slow him
> down.But I would DEFINITELY
> >advise you to give your pet a dagger of some kind
> (FS are best if you are
> >high enough lvl to be giving them to a
> pet).Why?Because, daggers will make
> >your pet attack quite a bit faster than with his
> bare fist and it does not
> >lower his damage.So it's hitting for the same
> amount of damage, but a good
> >deal quicker.
> >Aazen SyVex
> >
> >In a message dated 10/26/99 4:33:45 AM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> >EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com writes:
> >
> ><< I thought that at 16th level and above you
> should not give your pet a
> >weapon
> > because he did more damage barehanded. Am I
> wrong about this? >>
> >
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