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Do non-humanoids use Unarmed Combat?
| Asked: | 2000.10.31 |
| Name: | BlankDraw (CoD) |
| Question Title: | Do non-humanoids use Unarmed Combat? |
| Category: | Combat |
| Question: | I did an experiment where I debuffed a Tusker Guard's Unarmed Combat skill with VIs, removing a total of (with optimistic spell economy) 40 + 80/3 = 66 points. I had a melee defense of 240 at the time, and didn't evade once. Then I put Defender 5 on a dagger, adding 13% to my melee defense. 1.13*240 = 271 melee defense. The dagger didn't have an inherent + to melee defense. With the dagger, I evaded quite a few shots. Is there any explanation you know of for these results, or did I just do something wrong? Is Unarmed Ineptitude going to affect a Tusker, or is a gain in melee defense more effective than a loss in attacker's UA skill? |
| Answered: | 2000.10.31 |
| Name: | devilmouse |
| Answer: | Yes, yes in fact non-humanoid type mobs do use UA. (In fact, most non-human mobs use UA when they attack (shreth, tuskers, armadillos, anything that doesn't use a weapon)). |