Power cleave attack mechanics

[chatstar]

<p>Why is my CA(power cleave) disruption based?  Does that mean its hit table is based on disruption, but dmg is effected by melee crit and CA dmg? </p><p>Righteous blow also says 'melee attack' so why is it listed under spells?!</p>

[chatstar]

<p>More than a week and still zero help.  Awesome. </p><p>I'm still very interested in understanding the ins and outs of a disruption based combat art.  What determines dmg?  What determines crit?</p><p>What about my spell line that does melee dmg? </p><p>I would prefer not buying a bunch of wacky gear pieces to discover these answers.  Please someone help me out.</p>

[therodge]

<p><cite>chatstar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>More than a week and still zero help.  Awesome. </p><p>I'm still very interested in understanding the ins and outs of a disruption based combat art.  What determines dmg?  What determines crit?</p><p>What about my spell line that does melee dmg? </p><p>I would prefer not buying a bunch of wacky gear pieces to discover these answers.  Please someone help me out.</p></blockquote><p>your not getting an answer becuase most people simply dont know, but i will explain it.</p><p>things under spell are affected by spell crit and spell damage mod</p><p>things under Combat art are effected by melee crit and ca damage mod the nly exceptions of this are</p><p>i beileve the paladin group buff is concidered a ca but procs spell damage.</p><p>the holy strike line hits innitially for melee but seemingly the "dot" part hits for spell damage though not 100% on this</p><p>this is pretty much infallable all but 3-4 of our attacks are for divine damage which isnt melee but anything marked ca still goes for melee crit regardless of what it says</p>

[Mynervia]

<p><cite>therodge wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>this is pretty much infallable all but 3-4 of our attacks are for divine damage which isnt melee but anything marked ca still goes for melee crit regardless of what it says</p></blockquote><p>I thought that damage 'type' (slashing, piercing, fire, divine, etc) was independent of attack type (spell vs CA, melee vs ranged).  So a melee divine attack could just as easily be a CA as a spell - it all depends on what the ability is flagged as, regardless of what the ability /does/.</p><p>At least, that was my understanding; I'll admit I'm no expert on EQ2 mechanics.</p><p>(apologies for necroing an old thread, but at 3rd from the top I figure it's alright)</p>

[Illine]

<p><cite>Mynervia@Guk wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>therodge wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>this is pretty much infallable all but 3-4 of our attacks are for divine damage which isnt melee but anything marked ca still goes for melee crit regardless of what it says</p></blockquote><p>I thought that damage 'type' (slashing, piercing, fire, divine, etc) was independent of attack type (spell vs CA, melee vs ranged).  So a melee divine attack could just as easily be a CA as a spell - it all depends on what the ability is flagged as, regardless of what the ability /does/.</p><p>At least, that was my understanding; I'll admit I'm no expert on EQ2 mechanics.</p><p>(apologies for necroing an old thread, but at 3rd from the top I figure it's alright)</p></blockquote><p>I have to check coz I'm not 100% sure But on my bruiser I realised I had one fire attack with dot component and the crit percentage was a lot lower than with my other attacks.</p><p>Same, It's a ratonga with a poisonous racial attack and crits a lot less than the other attacks.</p><p>best thing is to check with act and else, adding melee mod or spell mod and see what improves the attack damage <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>