Automaton damage lower than described?

[Esoom]

Seems to me that the damage is not as high as in the description. He should be doing 400+ damage at his level but he appears to only be doing a little more damage then me. You would think 400 damage would one-shot and send everything flying in Act I.

[Hyperion²]

Yeah, it has been reported, and pinkfrog yet knows what was wrong.
The patch will correct this.

I hope will correct also his approach to the battle; it seems a bit lazy, just like tho old nymph, and rarely partecipate to the battle while my bestiary's pets are doing all the work.

[PinkFrog]

lol... that lazy dude. He's probably too clever to get involved when others do the dirty work

ok, yes, i'm working on the damage. i.n.s.a.n.e will test the guy tonight.

Concerning the high values in the stats: they are not precise stats at all. The problem with the stats is that they only show bare-hand-damage (unless a skill is shown, but hitting with a sword is not a skill). The pets aren't supposed to carry weapons. But the automatoi do, so the damage comes from the weapon they're using and not from the bare-hand that is indicated in the hud. So i had to "guess" the damage and probably guessed a bit wrong.... lol. The second problem is that the weapons are changing in the different difficulties. So i have no chance to give exact numbers anyway. Please dont take those numbers too seriously

[I_Raps]

I had the same problem.

I made a variant of the SoulPrism Artifact which summons mummies instead of skeletons, and the mummies are armed with a wide variety of weapons - scaled for the difficulty-level, of course.

As you say, the description only tells the bare-handed damage, and it does NOT scale... so I just put in 50 - 250 which is the range of the weapons' base damages.

[PinkFrog]

I had a close look at the nymph to see how the devs made it there and its funny: the nymph does not wield a bow, the bow is part of the nymph-mesh and she actually has a cast-spell with arrow-shaped projectiles... And the stats of this spell are shown in the hud.

This option is obviously not available for the automatoi...

[Psycho_Migle]

The level 20 automaton doesn't appear to be using the surplus skill at all... I've had it running for several hours and not seen it used once, although it was using the skill frequently at level 18...

[I_Raps]

Originally Posted by Psycho_Migle

The level 20 automaton doesn't appear to be using the surplus skill at all... I've had it running for several hours and not seen it used once, although it was using the skill frequently at level 18...

That's a standard TQ bug. The pets do not use skills over their "Maximum" level. If you can fix this, PinkFrog, please let us know what you did for the Community Patch.

[PinkFrog]

level 20 automaton uses different attack-skills. He's still using the passive "abundance", though.

[Psycho_Migle]

OK, thanks. That gives me another 8 skill points to play with.

[The Rock-man]

What about Surplus PinkFrog? Surely he should still use it or congrats on making a skill that pointless.