Granger wrote:I was under the impression that an effective negative strength in the range of -~9300 would be pointless, but i realize that it would (hopefully) clamp str to 1. Also that you want to use q<10 materials to build the equipment (which would need an alt to create).
Sorry for being braindead this morning.
It does clamp to 1, as you would probably know from agility and armour. With a q10 sparring sword with the revised formula you will do 16 damage, pretty much half hp. Using the armour you can increase the number of chops it takes to win quite flexibly. The specific numbers aren't that important though, this is just meant to give a way to make sparring somewhat realistic.