dfrnchman wrote:
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more hp, more mana, more ac, more attk at level 70 than at 69.
Not by a significant amount. The differnece in these stats between 69 and 70 is small.
As far as the new spells, the advantage there assumes you can get the runes, whicih is not that easy. Ive been 70 for two months now and have yet to get a 69 or 70 rune despite my best efforts.
Your argument is still wrong. It makes no difference where you start and where you finish at every point along the way, you will have at worst the same and most of the time *more* AAs and/or levels if you don't split then if you do.
Your problem is that you're looking at a straight long term goal and looking at the results and declaring them equivalent. Actually, your not doing that either. You're ending them at two different points, so it's impossible to compare them.
The guy who does nothing but 100% level, will gain each and every level earlier then the guy who splits 90/10. Your mistake is extending that so that he's halfway through level 70 when the other guys hits level 70, but has a bunch of AA points under his belt as well. That's incorrect. Assume it works this way:
We're going to ignore level differences since I don't want to turn this into an equation-a-thon. Let's just assume that 9AA==1 level for going from level 65 to level 70. I'm just grabbing that number cause it makes the math easy. Let's also call the time/exp needed to gain one level "X". So one level == 1X. One AA == 1/9X.
You've got two guys. One goes 100% at everything he does. The other does 90/10 split the whole time. They both start at level 65.
Over time, here's what happens to each:
Guy A (90/10 split):
After X time, he's 9/10ths of the way to gaining level 66. He's also 9/10ths of the way into his first AA point.
At X+1/9X, he dings level 66 and 1 AA.
At 2X+1/9X (+1X time from dings), he's 9/10ths of the way to gaining level 67. He's also 9/10s of the way into his second AA point.
At 2x+2/9X, he dings level 67 and 2 AA.
At 3x+2/9X (+1X time from dings), he's 9/10ths of the way to gaining level 68. He's also 9/10ths of the way into his third AA point.
At 3x+3/9X, he dings level 68 and 3 AA.
At 4x+3/9X (+1X time from dings), he's 9/10ths of the way to gaining level 69. He's also 9/10ths of the way into his fourth AA point.
At 4x+4/9X, he dings level 69 and 4 AA.
At 5X+4/9X (+1X time from dings), he's 9/10ths of the way to gaining level 70. He's also 9/10th of the way into his fifth AA point.
At 5X+5/9X, he finally dings level 70 and 5 AA.
Guy B (100% to either level or AA).
At 1X, he ding's level 66. He switches to AA.
At 1X+1/9X, he dings his first AA point. Switches to leveling.
At 2X+1/9X, he dings level 67. Switches to AA.
At 2X+2/9X, he dings his second AA point. Switches to leveling.
At 3X+2/9X, he dings level 68. Switches to AA.
At 3X+3/9X, he dings his third AA point. Switches to leveling
At 4X+3/9X, he dings level 69. Switches to AA.
At 4X+4/9X, he dings his fourth AA point. Switches to leveling
At 5X+4/9x, he dings level 70. Switches to AA.
At 5X+5/9X, he dings his fifth AA point.
Compare those two lists. You'll find that
at no time is Guy B *ever* behind Guy A in either levels or AA points. However, Guy B gains each level 11% (1/9X) earlier then Guy A every single time. That means that 11% of the time, he'll have a level advantage on Guy A.
The math *always* works that way. It does not matter how you split it up. It doesn't matter what levels we're talking about. The math is absolutely solid. You will *always* make your next AA or level take longer if you split them up, and you gain *nothing* in return.
I just don't see how many different ways I can say the same thing. It's as mathmatically provable as 1<2. If you want to argue that you prefer splitting exp for some social reason (like you don't want to have to bother with switching exp percentages around) that's fine. I can accept that. But there is absolutely no argument to support the notion that you'll actually level or AA faster by splitting. It's a complete and absolute falsehood. You will *never* gain levels or AA faster by splitting. Ever.
Edited, Mon Jul 11 18:41:41 2005 by gbaji