Quote (Grim04 @ Sun, Jun 21 2009, 02:59pm)
What about range 5 weapons?
Can't you hit 8 then?
No. Your character has a base modifier of 0, and weapons go from 0 to 4 in the range adder section of weapons.txt. A 0 range adder weapon would be dagger, wands, that sort of thing (in fact, subtract 1 from Arreat Summit values to get actual range adder value). So, when Arreat Summit says a great poleaxe is range 5, what it means is that vs monsters that are size 1 (small monsters like skeletons, walking undead, etc) range adder 4 + 1 monster size = range 5 total. A vast majority of monsters in game are small, or 1 class monsters. Players are size 2, so a great poleaxe would be rangeadder4 + 2 player = 6. Vs an Act Boss or large monster, it would be 7.