Misc. DAOC Related Documents:

• The Inner Workings of Celtic Dual, Dual Wield, and Left Axe v4 - An analysis of the workings of CD/DW/LA
• Two Handed Damage vs Left Axe Damage - An analysis of data comparing Two Handed weapon damage to Left Axe weapon damage
• The Balance of Endurance Regeneration Effects - A discussion of the balance of the current End Regen implementations in Dark Age of Camelot and upcoming changes to this balance
• The Inner Workings of Melee in DAOC Intro - This is the first unproofed section of a new document I'm working on to encompass all types of melee, this teaser chapter deals with weapon stats
• Left Axe � The Offhand Limitation - An analysis of how the current implementation of the offhand Left Axe is restrictive
• Assassins and Racial Statistics - A comparison of the various races available to assassins in Dark Age of Camelot at level 50
• The Inner Workings of Celtic Dual, Dual Wield, and Left Axe (OLD) - The old version of this document with information that no longer applies in 1.62 Live
• Wyrd�s Style Spreadsheet InfoFAQ - hosted by Wyrd along with his Growth Rate data

• Baseline Buffs and Spec Variance (6/14/03) - Did a little bit of math to see how the baseline buffs varied with spec. The results are kinda strange. Basically, 1 spec in the buff line (Enhance/Aug/Nurture) gives you 75% of the delve value of the baseline buff. At delve/2 spec, you will be getting 100% of the value. At level+1 of the buff, you will be getting 125% of the value. So it's a non-linear curve... kinda odd. More details here.

• Listed SPD of weapons (5/9/03) - heh.... had a developer offer to share some exact weapon stats to help with testing. After I asked the developer to make absolutely sure it was okay because I would like to publicize the findings based on the info (and thus the info), they said they checked with the big boys and was told they couldn't give me the info after all. /sigh. Amazingly frustrating to have developers that want to help but management that won't let them.

• Listed SPD of weapons (5/4/03) - Confirmed that the listed SPD of a weapon is truncated, hence a 3.9SPD weapon might be a 3.901SPD weapon or a 3.999SPD weapon (knew this already, just never had raw confirmation before).

• Slow Weapon Bonus (4/20/03) - Still trying to pin this down for sure. It's obvious there's a bonus for slower SPD weapons. Based on the current data, it looks like it's .03% for each .1SPD over 2.0SPD. Unfortunately it's hard to be sure due to issues with SPD printing. Assuming that's accurate we can determine true weapon speed to within .02 from the damage cap, though.. problem is, is it 100% accurate? Still checking various data.

• Two Handed Damage Formula (4/16/03 - Proven that the 2H damage formula (for Mid only so far) is a base bonus of 10% and grows exactly .5% for each spec. The interesting thing turned up in this testing was that you have to have at least one spec in the weapon to get this bonus, thus unspec'd melee such as Healers and Shaman do not gain the 2H 10% bonus as many previously thought. Trying to get Hib/Alb confirmation that it's the same there (already confirmed the 10% bonus is the same, just gotta confirm the .5% is the same)

Who is this geek anyway?

Most of the stuff I work on is for my own clarification. I'm a bit of a hobbyist - when I start a hobby, I like to know a lot about it. My hobbies have ranged from sports to books to anime to cars, and lately has been DAOC (which is amazingly cheaper than my last hobby, cars, which I spent waaaaaay too much money on). Yeah, I'm a geek, and no, I don't care (and yes, I do "have a life" if anyone knows what that really means! :P)

I've been playing DAOC since the day after release. I tend to go in cycles, I pick a realm and a char and I play it for awhile until either I get bored or something else interests me more. For a list of my toons, click here.

I post on most boards under the username "watermnp" and on VN under the username vn_SquawkingTiger.

-Pete