There are bugs with martial arts and hasted experience gain.
The way that martial arts will work following the bug fix:
Every weapon class (damage type) of every hit of every round of combat gives a chance for that weapon class (and all subsequent weapon classes for that round) to equal or exceed the armor class of an opponent who is more heavily armored than the martial arts user's weapon class for that damage type. To be more clear, right now you may see messages saying things like "Like the crashing wave your blow flows through sword-demon." - these are the pseudo-critical effects that will effectively cause whatever the martial arts user's weapon class to meet or exceed the armor of their foe. Currently it is only having an effect for one damage type per round, which is not the intent and is the bug causing poor performance against armored opponents. The intent is that a martial arts user will be able to adequately fight and wound a foe in any amount of armor.
The way hasted experience will work following the bug fix:
Experience gained will be the BEST out of all hits in that round of combat, rather than the TOTAL of all hits in that round of combat. This should cause haste users to see a drastic drop in their experience gain. The intent is that users of haste will gain only slightly more experience than users without haste by being given the most possible experience a non-hasted user could have gained from that round. This could potentially harm hasted experience gain by reducing the amount of hit points available to give experience from a single mob, causing them to need to kill more mobs in the same amount of time.
This is open to suggestion and discussion. Current options:- Additional attacks in a single round give a small percentage bonus to final experience gain for the round.
- Tally all experience for the round and divide by the number of attacks (averaging rather than best of)
Edited by Cerberus (07/18/08 11:11 AM)
Edit Reason: Clairifying intent.
