The new "combined" Double attack feature

[dancemice]

<p>Ok, i have to say it dosn't do anything for me one way or another, and i suspect its just a feature to cut out combat spam.</p><p>However, Could you please look at the damage of the "combined" attacks?</p><p>As soon as i get a chance i'll grind down the log i took, but i've noticed in the majority of the cases, that the combined double attack damage is <b>less</b> then a single attack.</p><p>Ie. Normal hit is 17, Double attack is 8.</p><p>What gives? </p><p>This will become more noticeable as i get the ol'cleric up in levels and i can get into the 100% critical AA - I'm hoping that once i start hitting for 1k reliably, that the damage figures will become a little clearer. (instead of say, hitting for 1.5k at level whatever, and with a combined attack hitting for 700 points.)</p><p>I'll post my logs once i grind em down (and after work of course)</p><p>-B-</p>

[Kenban]

<cite>Tbiggs@Blackburrow wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Ok, i have to say it dosn't do anything for me one way or another, and i suspect its just a feature to cut out combat spam.</p><p>However, Could you please look at the damage of the "combined" attacks?</p><p>As soon as i get a chance i'll grind down the log i took, but i've noticed in the majority of the cases, that the combined double attack damage is <b>less</b> then a single attack.</p><p>Ie. Normal hit is 17, Double attack is 8.</p><p>What gives? </p><p>This will become more noticeable as i get the ol'cleric up in levels and i can get into the 100% critical AA - I'm hoping that once i start hitting for 1k reliably, that the damage figures will become a little clearer. (instead of say, hitting for 1.5k at level whatever, and with a combined attack hitting for 700 points.)</p><p>I'll post my logs once i grind em down (and after work of course)</p><p>-B-</p></blockquote>I don't think the damage is actually combined.  For example this is from my log file from test pvp[Sun Mar 23 01:01:18 2008] YOU hit training wall for 1359 piercing damage.[Sun Mar 23 01:01:18 2008] YOU double attack training wall for 1373 piercing damage.If you notice the time stamp is the same on both and thats from using a 9 second delay weapon the time stamps should be different if they were not from the same attack.