Lately I've been raising a matched set of Bards. One in prime, one in plat. Same weapons/armor/enchantes/stats/etc. as near as I can (Okay, the plat one was first so I'm correcting some minor mistakes, such as not neglecting a couple skills).
This's my first prime character in a number of years, and I was just wondering, do rats have a lower soft cap in prime?
In plat, I've always been able to take rats easily to 20ish ranks, but in prime even with 4-5 pounding on me I didn't seem to be getting more than 2-3 of 34 in defenses.
I figure it's something else I was doing, but I thought it was curious and couldn't figure out what I was doing differently.
KROONERMANREVENGE
GERSTEINJ2
Re: Rats question
07/09/2010 07:28 AM CDT
its not a critter difference. theres a learning bonus in plat. i noticed it myself when i made my necros <same race> in both places. although the prime one had a very good head start <had been a commoner for years, as opposed to only a couple of months for the plat girl, and had better "teachers" for various skills>, i was quickly able to pass her by with my plat character once i got them to identical stats around 15th circle or so. I performed tests with them both fighting the same critter at the same time <they are on 2 different accounts>, and the plat girl just learned faster.
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KROONERMANREVENGE
Re: Rats question
07/09/2010 08:24 AM CDT
>theres a learning bonus in plat.
I'm going to need to see a GM post/confirmation of this. The two instances are at least nominally supposed to be the same.
Nothing personal Gonif.
I'm going to need to see a GM post/confirmation of this. The two instances are at least nominally supposed to be the same.
Nothing personal Gonif.
DELVER
Re: Rats question
07/09/2010 08:33 AM CDT
>its not a critter difference. theres a learning bonus in plat. i noticed it myself when i made my necros
IIRC we had some changes in Plat at that time that hadn't been put into Prime yet.
To Krooner's point, while I have avoided ship rats in both instances, I haven't noticed that much of a difference recently between a Plat and Prime start for the same race and guild.
Asbhuan
IIRC we had some changes in Plat at that time that hadn't been put into Prime yet.
To Krooner's point, while I have avoided ship rats in both instances, I haven't noticed that much of a difference recently between a Plat and Prime start for the same race and guild.
Asbhuan