Arrow damage dice: WTF?

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Treladian
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Arrow damage dice: WTF?

Postby Treladian » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:12 am

< 547h/551H 168p/168P 71v/131V >
< > g arrow
You get a black-shafted elven arrow.

< 548h/551H 168p/168P 74v/131V >
< > recite vellum arrow
You recite a vellum scroll which turns to dust in your hands.
You feel informed:
Object 'arrow elven', Item type: MISSILE
Item can be worn on: NOBITS
Item will give you following abilities: NOBITS
Item is: FLOAT NOBITS
Weight: 1, Value: 250
Damage dice is '2D8'
Can affect you as :
Affects : HITROLL By 1
Affects : DAMROLL By 1

< 551h/551H 168p/168P 128v/131V >
< > g raven quiver
You get an elven arrow with raven fletching from an ancient tooled dragonhide quiver.

< 551h/551H 168p/168P 130v/131V >
< > You recite a vellum scroll which turns to dust in your hands.
You feel informed:
Object 'arrow elven raven fletching', Item type: MISSILE
Item can be worn on: NOBITS
Item will give you following abilities: NOBITS
Item is: MAGIC NOBITS
Weight: 0, Value: 50000
Damage dice is '2D5'
Can affect you as :
Affects : HITROLL By 3
Affects : DAMROLL By 3

< 551h/551H 168p/168P 131v/131V >
< > g rune quiver
You get a brilliant rune-encrusted arrow from an ancient tooled dragonhide quiver.

< 551h/551H 168p/168P 131v/131V >
< > recite vellum rune
You recite a vellum scroll which turns to dust in your hands.
You feel informed:
Object 'arrow rune brilliant', Item type: MISSILE
Item can be worn on: NOBITS
Item will give you following abilities: NOBITS
Item is: MAGIC FLOAT NOBURN NOBITS
Weight: 0, Value: 100000
Damage dice is '1D8'
Can affect you as :
Affects : HITROLL By 4
Affects : DAMROLL By 4
Nothing seems to happen.

Average damage per arrow
Black-shafted elven: 10 ( avg (2d8) + 1 = 2 x 4.5 + 1)
Elven arrow with raven fletching: 9 ( avg(2d5) + 3 = 2 x 3 + 3)
Brilliant rune-encrusted arrow: 8.5 ( avg(1d8) + 4 = 4.5 + 4)

Uh, does anyone else find it odd that the rarer and harder to obtain the arrows get, the LESS damage they do? Obviously missile shield doesn't kill the runed arrows, but still, it seems silly (and for reference, the carved wooden arrows are 2d8 with no bonuses, so even they do more damage than the runeds).

(oh, and the red ansi on the ravens crosses into the "lies discarded" part of the text when they're on the ground, looks kinda weird).

And yeah, this is kind of old news, but I've been busy so deal =p
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Eilistraee
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Postby Eilistraee » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:22 pm

Shortly after I coded the change to allow dice to be visible on arrows, I did an audit of every arrow in the game. The long and the short of it is: they're under review and will be modified as time permits.

The inconsistency has been noted and will be remedied. :)
belleshel..
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Postby belleshel.. » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:52 am

Check sandstorm arrows while your at it please, talk about getting jobbed.

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