Hunters and critical hits probability
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:26 pm
Hi, I've recently got back into the Bard's Tale 1 on Android, although I played it many years ago on C64. Back then I never used two character classes: Monk and Hunter, because they seemed pretty terrible starting out. In my last game (which was deleted because of a firmware update, harumph!
) I got to find out that the monk is incredible when he gains a few levels. Easily the best fighter in the game, in fact...
But what about the Hunter? I've been reading some of the discussion here and nobody seems to include them in their ideal party. I was thinking of using one when restarting, but two things for me always seemed to work against them:
1) They seem to have a really poor chance of scoring critical hits. A hunter would be that character in the party you could never be sure would kill the third monster and then have it reach out and wither you.
2) After a few level gains, warriors and paladins scoring multiple hits is almost always enough to kill a monster per round of combat. No need for critical hits.
Does anyone happen to know from disassembly of BT code how likely Hunter critical hits are per level? Maybe if I understand this I can decide better whether to use one or just stick with a Warrior.
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But what about the Hunter? I've been reading some of the discussion here and nobody seems to include them in their ideal party. I was thinking of using one when restarting, but two things for me always seemed to work against them:
1) They seem to have a really poor chance of scoring critical hits. A hunter would be that character in the party you could never be sure would kill the third monster and then have it reach out and wither you.
2) After a few level gains, warriors and paladins scoring multiple hits is almost always enough to kill a monster per round of combat. No need for critical hits.
Does anyone happen to know from disassembly of BT code how likely Hunter critical hits are per level? Maybe if I understand this I can decide better whether to use one or just stick with a Warrior.