Hello! I am new to the list, but have an answer for you from the
enchanters web forum.
Strength doesn't neccessarily raise the MAX amount of damage you can do.
Instead it raises the average amount of damage you do over time, so
enfeeblement does help, and if you add up the damage done by your ogre
vs the damage done by your elf over time, you will see the ogre does a
lot more damage on average.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rival@... [SMTP:rival@...]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 11:44 AM
> To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqenchanters] are strength affecting spells worth it?
>
> From: rival@...
>
> Does anyone know if spells like enfeeblement really help? If all they
> do is lower strength,
> that is pointless. I had an ogre once with 150str and he didn't do
> anymore damage than
> an elf with 50str. I would hate to be wasting mana just to make it so
> an orc could carry
> less before i kill him.
>
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