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hunh08
05-16-2010, 01:16 PM
Can you see you current attack bonus in one of the windows? I know you can see save bonuses, which are affected by stat multipliers and gear. Can you see how gear combinations affect your bonus to hit? This will help me understand how effects stacks.

Visty
05-16-2010, 01:19 PM
in the details section of your inventory

Oolung
05-16-2010, 01:20 PM
There is a thing under your gear that has your ac, to hit, and damage for the first swing, you have higher to hit as you continue the chain, i forget what the bonuses are though, something like norm/norm/+5/+10 iirc

hunh08
05-16-2010, 01:20 PM
I will check that out - I was looking more in the character sheet.

Calebro
05-16-2010, 01:21 PM
in the details section of your inventory

I think he means that he wants to see a detailed breakdown of that number like you get when you hover over saving throws in your character sheet, in which case I don't know how to get one.

Visty
05-16-2010, 01:29 PM
I think he means that he wants to see a detailed breakdown of that number like you get when you hover over saving throws in your character sheet, in which case I don't know how to get one.

for that he would need a pen and some sheet of paper and knowledge about how all the boni in this game work

Calebro
05-16-2010, 01:33 PM
for that he would need a pen and some sheet of paper and knowledge about how all the boni in this game work

Exactly, which is why he asked this:

Can you see how gear combinations affect your bonus to hit? This will help me understand how effects stacks.

So the answer is No.
All you need to know is that bonuses of the same type do not stack. Every bonus is either named with a "type" (enhancement, morale, etc), or is untyped.
All untyped bonuses of differing values will stack, and only the highest bonus of any given type applies.

Time for some math. ;)

toughguyjoe
05-16-2010, 01:34 PM
Can you see you current attack bonus in one of the windows? I know you can see save bonuses, which are affected by stat multipliers and gear. Can you see how gear combinations affect your bonus to hit? This will help me understand how effects stacks.

If your main reasoning is to find how things stack to effect your attack bonus, you want to look at the DDo Compendium, for which thereis a Link on the forums page.

There is a Wealth of information there, and in the DDOWiki, which will help you ebtter understand stacking in this game.

Quick version: Bonuses with the same name(I.E: Enhancement, Insight, Compotence..Etc) Will not stack with Bonuses of the same name. You will instead get the higher of the bonuses.