Explanation?

[buzzralla]

Was checking my Sony Station info about my toons for the first time and saw something that just seems out of whack.......My swashie has his highest melee hit at 12k+   but shows his highest magical hit at almost 663K.......At first I thought it may have been from an HO but my highest hit on that was 3K +..........

I don't remember ever hitting anything that hard, course I never look at my parse or dps output unless someone posts it....BTW this hit was before I hit lvl 90.....

Thanks   

Buz

[Massika]

Wow, you got me beat, my highest magical hit was 621K!

I really have no way to verify this, but when I saw that number on Massi's page a few months ago, I assumed it was from some scripted action.  A "use this potion on creature X" thing from a quest that one-shots the mob, a fight where the mob dies after you get it down to a certain point, using one of the bomb potions inside Levi, or something else along those lines.  That's really the only thing it could be, seeing as assassins simply have no spells...

[Uged]

I think Massika is correct.  It's probably from an item that you used that inflicts damage on the mob: the bombs in Levi, stakes in MMIS, etc.

[HellsWrath]

It's a known issue with the highest hit records.  Nor do they seem to have any intention of locking out such script events from the rankings or resetting the rankings to remove the scripted hits.  This is the main reason these particular rankings are essentially garbage.   

[Massika]

Highest Melee Hit     138,111 

At least the Melee Hits report correctly!   

[Demosthenes]

A lot of those super-high hits used to come from staking the named vamps in MMIS. Was kinda funny to see a cleric with a 250K (I think) hit back in T7. 

[Gerith]

I recall getting some sort of super high hit once from a quest. It was a year or two ago so I can't remember details, but I recall that finishing the quest killed some fairly tough mob which I otherwise would have never been able to handle.  Near as I could tell they did it by inflicting some super high damage just like melee which appeared in combat log etc. 

[Caerus]

My main is a wizard and his high magical hit of 891k is in fact real. You can achieve numbers like that but only in a few places where the script allows. My hit in particular comes from manaburning Queen Gwarthlea in VD:Cella. During the fight you have a buff that increases your mana (and for necro's looking to lifeburn, health) to over 100k and at 4dmg per mana, plus crit, plus crit bous, plus Freehand Sorcery, plus Catalyst, you can skip the last set of adds by one-shotting the Queen around 10-17% health (depending on how hard you can hit).