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Drew
07-31-2004, 06:06 AM
So the oldest creature in the game gets an attack off on me, and I live:

A war griffin tries to bite you!
AS: +435 vs DS: +186 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +69 = +342
... and hits for 106 points of damage!
Fast slash to your neck exposes your windpipe.
You are stunned for 8 rounds!
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But a snowball kills me:

>A cold guardian gestures at you!
A cold guardian hurls a freezing ball of pure cold at you!
AS: +193 vs DS: +152 with AvD: +39 + d100 roll: +73 = +153
... and hits for 18 points of damage!
Icy chill to your midriff. A bowl of nice hot stew would hit the spot right now.
The freezing ball of pure cold strikes you, blossoming into a much larger sphere of frost upon impact.
... 30 points of damage!
Your dead eyes gaze back blankly after the blast connects solidly... or is that an icy stare?

It seems you have died, my friend. Although you cannot do anything, you are keenly aware of what is going on around you....


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And a 112 roll stuns me just as long as a war griffin

An arctic manticore tries to bite you!
AS: +184 vs DS: +196 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +100 = +112
... and hits for 5 points of damage!
Glancing blow to your left leg!

The manticore's attack chills you!
... 35 points of damage!
What was once your left leg seems to have disappeared!
You fall screaming to the ground grasping your mangled left leg!
You are stunned for 8 rounds!


::exhale::

//rant over



edited to make it a bit clearer

[Edited on 7-31-2004 by Drew]

Caiylania
07-31-2004, 07:32 AM
Um, I would just be glad you lived to say a war griffen couldn't kill you :D

StrayRogue
07-31-2004, 07:54 AM
Bite is weak, where-as bolts aren't.

Latrinsorm
07-31-2004, 11:13 AM
Bite isn't weak, unless you consider .300 DF against plate weak.

Drew
07-31-2004, 04:03 PM
Originally posted by StrayRogue
Bite is weak, where-as bolts aren't.


Bite actually isn't that weak, considering ice only has a .238 DF against brig. Mostly what annoys me is that I'm fairly sure those blooms and flares don't take crit padding into consideration at all. I wear heavily crit padded brig, I'm sure if I didn't the griffin would have killed me outright, but I wish they applied the systems equally.