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Title: How fast are you ?
Post by: Dexxtaa on February 19, 2011, 09:43:36 am
Out of curiosity, what is your athletics goal ?

I read somewhere that the average is 6.5, but I haven't found any hard numbers to support that.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Player_01 on February 19, 2011, 10:04:14 am
Only a four here, you don't need much agility in a thrower build.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Garrus on February 19, 2011, 10:25:55 am
Only a four here, you don't need much agility in a thrower build.

Then how do you flee ? :) Because if you are a thrower, you must be familiar with that.
And don't say that you switch then to your melee weapon, because you said you don't need agility.
And how do you aim correctly without wpf ? Or no need for throwing ?!
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Punisher on February 19, 2011, 11:33:55 am
An average of 6.5 is unrealistic, it would mean a lot of people have 8+ ath and they dont :). You need at least 4, 5 is decent, 6 is good. I only went for 7 ath once and the difference between 6 and 7 is too small to worth it.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Spurdospera on February 19, 2011, 11:36:59 am
An average of 6.5 is unrealistic, it would mean a lot of people have 8+ ath and they dont :). You need at least 4, 5 is decent, 6 is good. I only went for 7 ath once and the difference between 6 and 7 is too small to worth it.
yeah, I cant notice any difference between ath 6 and 7 UNLESS I want to go full plate. 5 is ok.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Vexus on February 19, 2011, 11:37:40 am
Going higher than 7 imo is useful only if you plan to use heavy armor to still be fast.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Garrus on February 19, 2011, 11:41:24 am
Going higher than 7 imo is useful only if you plan to use heavy armor to still be fast.

6 is enough even in heavy armor
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: zagibu on February 19, 2011, 12:33:58 pm
0 is enough if you have a long weapon.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Garrus on February 19, 2011, 12:46:10 pm
0 is enough if you have a long weapon.

you stab, I dodge, I jump in your face, you are dead.
I would say 0 is enough if you have über high damage and very good blocking skills.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: zagibu on February 19, 2011, 01:06:01 pm
Yeah, you are right, my blocking skills are only mediocre, and so I die often in 1vs1 situations. I don't think this would be much better with 1 or 2 in ATH, so I put all in STR instead. The deaths in 1vs1 are offset by many kills in group situations, such that I can usually manage at least a 2:1 KDR.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Krakatit on February 19, 2011, 01:12:01 pm
When you cant block very well then you can use footwork to dodge hits. In your case it might be better to max your athletics when you dont block good.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Kafein on February 19, 2011, 01:19:58 pm
Prepatch I had 8 ath. By that time I could kill an enemy mob of 10+ players, just by running in and out, slashing in random directions. But that's (well, I think it's better that way) not possible anymore.

The only classes that can really survive with low athletics are either pure cav lancer (I'm being dehorsed too often as cav to not invest points in ath), or some weird uber roof sniper, or a pure str/crushtru build. Pikeman is maybe the class needing the most athletics, because you'll have to flee very fast if your mates are killed.

I've seen some people that have very low athletics, still managing to make very good kills in melee situations. I really don't know how they do that.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Dravic on February 19, 2011, 02:57:01 pm
Add possiblity to remove your vote and option to vote again. I am going for 10 athletics, not 9.

Also, it should be MOVED to General Discussion.

And visit this thread, too: http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,2279.msg37891.html#msg37891 (http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,2279.msg37891.html#msg37891)
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Formless on February 19, 2011, 10:13:06 pm
=((1*1)+(2*3)+(4*6)+(5*3)+(6*23)+(15*7)+(8*8)+(9*3)+(10*2))/73
=5.48

Looks like the average is 5.48, I guess people are slower then what I though.  :D

Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Kalam on February 19, 2011, 10:37:16 pm
4 or 8. Everything else doesn't seem to be needed.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Riddaren on February 19, 2011, 11:15:04 pm
My goal is to stay on the horse at all time so I have 0.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Bobthehero on February 19, 2011, 11:31:48 pm
3
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Korgoth on February 20, 2011, 02:33:18 am
I'm a Ninja.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Joxer on February 20, 2011, 02:36:07 am
Not a goal. I already have 10.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Christo on February 20, 2011, 12:28:34 pm
On my last char back in the day, I had seven athletics, it was very useful, and handy.

So I think I would like to have at least seven ATH again.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Teeth on February 20, 2011, 12:52:26 pm
8 athletics combined with under 6 weight gear makes me pretty much faster than anyone. Next build will be 9 athl.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Formless on February 20, 2011, 06:37:55 pm
=((1*1)+(3*4)+(4*9)+(5*10)+(6*31)+(7*21)+(8*16)+(9*5)+(10*13))/122
=6.02

A little faster with more people voting.

Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: corto on February 20, 2011, 06:59:14 pm
after retiring and rebuilding my char without athletics - i learned something:

in melee, i am beaten easily in duell situations by players i killed in seconds with my 8 athletics char.

i am absolutely unable to reach him when he just retreats between his strikes.

so unless u just stand and block and then hammer him down athletics is the far most important killing and surviving skill.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Krakatit on February 20, 2011, 07:07:33 pm
Yeah athletics are most usefull for people with poor blocking abilities.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Bobthehero on February 20, 2011, 07:08:00 pm
I beg to differ, powerstrike works a lot better at killing that athletics
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: BlackMilk on February 20, 2011, 07:23:04 pm
I'm a Ninja.
+1 :twisted:
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Stormcrow on February 20, 2011, 07:51:00 pm
Someone needs to run some tests to see how athletics effects speed per lvl
How much faster is 5 athletics then 4 it would be nice to have a number
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: BlackMilk on February 20, 2011, 07:57:29 pm
Someone needs to run some tests to see how athletics effects speed per lvl
How much faster is 5 athletics then 4 it would be nice to have a number
10%, I guess
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Toffi on February 20, 2011, 09:59:55 pm
0 for cavalry-build
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Deafening on February 20, 2011, 10:20:13 pm
Rain has 7, and it's the difference between being able to out-backpedal a mob of enemies and not. This is after ditching the shield, etc.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Rhaelys on February 25, 2011, 03:06:09 am
Out of curiosity, what is your athletics goal ?

I read somewhere that the average is 6.5, but I haven't found any hard numbers to support that.

From the poll, the approximate average athletics score is 6.2
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Thomek on February 25, 2011, 05:08:12 am
lol seems to be a lot of agi-whores around.. xD
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Gorath on February 25, 2011, 05:50:03 am
I have 7, 7 and 8 on the 3 toons I play the most.  However I truly truly regret it as it seems to be worthless.  In my light weight loadout (tribal warrior, leather boots, wisby guantlets, klappvisor) Goretooth in his heavy black armor shit and Cyranule both keep up with me, and they're str builds (Cyran said he has 12 agi, so 4 athletics at the most).  I should be outrunning them by a fair margin, instead they can keep up with movement speed no problem.  So I've decided I'm going to stop wasting points on what appears to be a semi-useless skill.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: bruce on February 25, 2011, 04:09:43 pm
I have 7, 7 and 8 on the 3 toons I play the most.  However I truly truly regret it as it seems to be worthless.  In my light weight loadout (tribal warrior, leather boots, wisby guantlets, klappvisor) Goretooth in his heavy black armor shit and Cyranule both keep up with me, and they're str builds (Cyran said he has 12 agi, so 4 athletics at the most).  I should be outrunning them by a fair margin, instead they can keep up with movement speed no problem.  So I've decided I'm going to stop wasting points on what appears to be a semi-useless skill.

It might be because you're overencumbered because of your low str  :D
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Mustang_Sweets on February 25, 2011, 04:18:52 pm
It might be because you're overencumbered because of your low str  :D
He just might be, I have no problem getting away from people I have 9 ath and even when i where my full banded armor outfitt i can out run anyone. Plus, I may feel like a nat to most of my enemies i distract crowds for a long time by darting between them, It's always a good feeling to cause enemy tk's by moving out of the way. And on another note i found out that if you can get your timing and distance judgment down you can jump within a pole and 2h swing before they can react. The ath helps with jumping alot so use it to get past people faster you may be stalled on landing but the sudden covering of distance helps alot and so does jumping and hitting a shielder in the head over his shield.
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Gorath on February 25, 2011, 07:23:53 pm
It might be because you're overencumbered because of your low str  :D

18 str isn't exactly "low str"   :wink:
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Bobthehero on February 25, 2011, 07:46:05 pm
Yes it is, weakling

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Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: zagibu on February 25, 2011, 10:21:12 pm
18 STR is half my STR, so it's low.  :P
Title: Re: How fast are you ?
Post by: Gorath on February 26, 2011, 01:08:22 am
30 is pretty much the logical peak of stats given a level 30 cap and without doing crazy gimmicky crap by converting every skill-point you get.

3 is the bottom end.

15-18 would be average, not low :P