Greetings all,
I am thinking about doing a rather large test. I am an old timer that is skilling very slowly. Right now I am only at level 38 Swordsman and that is my main proffession. I started before the Axe 1x0 nerf, Opalo and (L) items. I have a decent collection of oldstyle mêleé weapons, for example every Castorian Combat EnBlade expect the new 'Defender'. I am actually using these weapons too despite all the warning bells in my head about being uneco.
Those warning bells has gotten me to the point that I recently bought a MAKO Blizzard (L), believe it's #1.
I have seen a chart here about a test with Opalo + A101 versus Opalo + Eamp15 (or whatever it's called). Conclusion is being far less eco gives you higher loot, but not enough to offset the difference. Now I want to do a test like this with part of my mêleé collection and newstyle TT-mêleé.
The goal of my test will be:
a) What is the difference in outcome in percentage for different mêleé weapons on the same creature at the same location?
b) What is the correlation between the economy of a mêleé weapon and the resulting loot percentage?
Some problems I am thinking of before starting are:
a) Which weapons to choose? Should I go for the same weapon types (ie. all shortblades), same damage-range or same dmg/sec-range? Or perhaps a mix of these is better? And what about weapons with near same economy with one being oldstyle and the other the new SIB-style?
b) What creature to hunt? I will only hunt one type at one specific location for this test. Small enough in damage that I can heal myself inbetween with a TT-fap. I am on Arkadia and will not go to another planet. Other thing is that I prefer a missionmob.
c) How to calculate my effective eco with unmaxed weapons?
d) How many different weapons to use in this test?
e) How to record all the data? Thinking about determining the TT-return after every hunt, take track of what I hunt as well like Dtler does in his log. Note the defensive skills. Perhaps a standard deviation per weapon and overal too.
f) I want to hunt a missionmob, I don't expect that will alter the results in a significant way.
g) I want to upgrade my unlimited weapons when I can, also don't expect that will alter the results (won't be using enhancers).
And because I sometimes don't play for weeks on end my progress is very slow. This test will probably be spread out over many months and perhaps even years if I don't lose my sanity first.
[EDIT]
I just realise that I am at 6.2/6.3 hit/crithit on all swords that I checked. That doesn't stroke with my believe that these are all maxed at level 100. How is this determined and when are these swords maxed?
[EDIT]
Ardorj