Originally Posted by Brigandy

Just another suggestion from a alt bard who raids every now and then. Make sure your in auto attack range the entire time. As stupid as this sounds, on my Brigand I never realized how easy it was to be out of range of a mob especially in ROK. The models and hit boxes of some of the mobs are tiny though they scale pretty high visually. When someone else told me this same thing I kinda laughed at him. And though you are standing right next to the mob and your toon is showing the animation that you are swinging, it may just be because your casting CA's and not actually hitting for auto attack damage. Then I started breaking down my parses via ACT against the other melee classes and noticed my slashing/piercing seemed a bit low. I went to ACT website and found:

code:
You must be .+?your target\.

Added to a sound trigger, this will detect if the skill you are using is telling you that you are in the wrong position. (This is more useful for a rogue/predator.)

code:
Your target is too far.+

A useful sound trigger to detect if you're too far away from your current target for melee or spells. I suggest if you melee, just use the system beep as an indicator, because the message gets spammed by EQ2.

This one does get annoying but you may be surprised how often it triggers particularly if you joist alot and think you are back within auto attack range. I believe that Dirges and Brigands auto attack damage accounts for up to 45ish% of their ZW parse.

Originally Posted by Brigandy

Just another suggestion from a alt bard who raids every now and then. Make sure your in auto attack range the entire time. As stupid as this sounds, on my Brigand I never realized how easy it was to be out of range of a mob especially in ROK. The models and hit boxes of some of the mobs are tiny though they scale pretty high visually. When someone else told me this same thing I kinda laughed at him. And though you are standing right next to the mob and your toon is showing the animation that you are swinging, it may just be because your casting CA's and not actually hitting for auto attack damage. Then I started breaking down my parses via ACT against the other melee classes and noticed my slashing/piercing seemed a bit low. I went to ACT website and found:

code:
You must be .+?your target\.

Added to a sound trigger, this will detect if the skill you are using is telling you that you are in the wrong position. (This is more useful for a rogue/predator.)

code:
Your target is too far.+

A useful sound trigger to detect if you're too far away from your current target for melee or spells. I suggest if you melee, just use the system beep as an indicator, because the message gets spammed by EQ2.

This one does get annoying but you may be surprised how often it triggers particularly if you joist alot and think you are back within auto attack range. I believe that Dirges and Brigands auto attack damage accounts for up to 45ish% of their ZW parse.

Originally Posted by Froggur

Curious how much difference the weapon timing makes on crit's? I'm guessing it's the same for any class and is based on your Haste?

I have a alt 76 Dirge, so I'm interested if anyone has any info on that.

Originally Posted by Froggur

Curious how much difference the weapon timing makes on crit's? I'm guessing it's the same for any class and is based on your Haste?

I have a alt 76 Dirge, so I'm interested if anyone has any info on that.

Originally Posted by Silge

The only correlation weapon timing has with crit is the more times you swing the more chances you have to crit. Haste goes by the same theory, more swings = the chance for more crits.

Slower weapons are usually recommended due to them having a higher damage spread(higher crits) and the ability to get ca's off w/o reseting the auto-attack.

Originally Posted by Froggur

Thanx Kall, and Silge for the responses.

Since I'm lazy and not much into the number crunching. I normally will experiment with different AA lines and weapons. I recently went:

WIS 4,4,6,8,1
INT 4,4,8,8,1
STA 4,4,8,3

Originally Posted by Albtraum

I don't ever use shield, and I'm kinda wondering about the 3pts in the double attack aa that benefits not only you, but the group as well.

Mine look like this:

STA 4, 4, 4, 8
WIS 4, 4, 8, 8, 1
INT 4, 4, 7, 8

the 8 pts in STA boosts you and your groups DA by 10% And atm, the only thing the shield would do for me is help me time my autoattack, I'd only use it for practicing that.