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Agility is the modifier for Trick Attack and Dexterity for Sneak Attack but in extensive testing, me and my GF have found it more advantageous to just pile on the attack, even for SATA. >_< You should try the THF forums if you want any more than that.

My GF, who has her doctorate in CS, created a parser tailored specifically to measure her own performance and break it down into important categories. We killed hundreds of mobs of all different kinds. We spent an incredible amount of money hoarding every piece of AGI, DEX or attack gear we could get our hands on for the testing. In almost all circumstances, her SA, TA and SATA in full attack gear far out-performed her SA in DEX, and/or TA in AGI gear. It's not a one-to-one ratio; One DEX will be more advantageous than 1 attack for example. But it's fairly easy to find attack in large amounts. A quick example: Dusk Trousers completely owned the crap out of Dragon Subligar for SA in every imaginable circumstance. Another: Swordbelt+1 smokes Warwolf or Scouter's Rope for SATA.

Good job testing things out for yourself instead of just listening to what everyone else says though.

Sorry but I'll stick with our personally tried and proven findings over "just ask any thief" information.

I'll have to ask her, but since it was originally only for our own enlightenment, I somehow doubt that she saved it unfortunately. Also, since it was her own parser, I'm not sure how presentable the data would be.

Edit: I don't mean to imply that DEX/AGI gear is worthless. She used to have four entire macro slots filled up with gear swaps for DEX/AGI gear, but after our testing she only uses two: one to swap on SATA gear and one to put TP gear back on. In places where she was swapping on two or three DEX just for SATA, now she just leaves on her TP/Attack gear and does even better, not to mention saving trouble with all the darn gear swapping.



Edited, Jun 8th 2007 8:49am by Filian

Where did I say we don't believe in equip change macros? Did you miss the part where I said we spent countless hours parsing and optimizing her gear choices? And I don't see where Weapon Skills even entered into this conversation. Is it so hard for e-peen Thieves to divorce the concept of using SATA and using a WS?



Edited, Jun 8th 2007 11:57am by Filian

See now you're not making any sense. Now you agree with me?


...Oooh, I'm sorry. Judging from your posts, I figured it was okay to only read certain parts of your sentences, and ignore the rest. What I actually said was:



And I still don't see how you associated that with using Weapon Skills. I don't even know who you are, but thank you for sparing me the trouble of ever having to deal with you in-game.

Hmm. I'd really like to see those results as well. Too bad you don't have them anymore. :(

I find it funny how he half-ass quoted words to make himself seem smarter. Try requoting you dumbsh*t. Lol.

Jamarious wrote:


I find it amusing that you didn't get the reason why he did a partial quote.