Don't think he has mentioned what he was hitting before you fly off the handle on damage could of been a hen! Plus I reckon your shield maths is wrong...
I'm not flying off the handle. Just because you choose to interpret my post as such doesnt make it so. Anyway, tao damage is still insanely high.
And ok, if you know something i dont, please do correct me on my maths then with regards to this example.
There is a 50% damage reduction is on shield is there not? Granted I didn't take into account the amc of a wizard but it's usually piss poor anyway. Wouldn't make a huge difference.
Even if that example was a hen.. and you scaled it down to a 150 hit against a player and allowed -20 for Amc defence you are still looking at a ranged hit of 130 / 65 through shield against a character with under 200 HP @42.
That's without even mentioning all the other things like green poison, defence buffs, heals and hide to loose agro that taos have available to them.