ReconnaisX
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Why does everyone complain about luck?
Even if your Strength/Dexterity/Technology/Support is significantly higher than your opponent's, they still have a chance to block/stun/crit and so on.
You guys do realize that they still have a chance of doing so, right? The way you're complaining makes it sound like if you have a higher number in a certain stat (Example: Dexterity), your opponent's chance of ______ (Example: blocking) should reduce to somewhere near zero.
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Lol I had 54 support and found a lower lvl BH with base support. Guess what? He critted 3 times and blocked me once (he got lower dex too......). Wow.
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I agree that luck is ridiculous, mainly because a single block is game-changing in a large majority of fights. I was fighting a level 32 CH with around 30 less dex than me and max shadow (he had delta armor, so no ninja reflexes). Because he blocked my max zerker, I lost. To be honest, I personally don't think people who lack experience and strategy (his record was terrible, and some decisions he made in the fight I would strongly disagree with) deserve a cheap win off of me like that.
Mostly everyone around here needs to understand that there is still a chance for everything to happen. You can calculate the exact chance of Player X using a battle mechanic in their favor and making you become angry and post about it to the forums.
I will use theholyfighter's post as an example here. I'm going to calculate the chance that the lower level BH critted him.
The BH has a base Support of 18. Taken from the ED Wiki:
[Formula] Chance to Critical Strike = 4 + (Support Advantage / 7)
The Support Advantage would be the BH's 18 support minus theholyfigher's 54 support. That brings the Supp Advantage to -36 (not really an advantage anymore).
-36 divided by 7 is -5.14285714.
The base number of four plus -5.14285714 is -1.14285714.
According to the wiki, however, the minimum chance to crit is 1%. But there is an unknown factor: theholyfighter, did you know if your opponent had the Mark of Azrael or any other similar Weapon Mastery cores?
Overall, though (assuming that the BH didn't have any special crit cores), either the BH got lucky (really lucky) or the Wiki's formula for Critical Strikes is outdated. It's a little hard to believe, too. But there you have it.
Since the last example was a bit hard for me to believe, I will use Exploding Penguin's post next.
In this case, Penguin only stated that his opponent had 30 less dex than him, but the opponent had max Shadow Arts. (If you don't know already, max Shadow Arts is an extra 10% chance to block.) Penguin's dexterity will be represented by the variable X and his opponent's dexterity represented by X-30.
The Block Chance formula:
[Formula] Block Chance = 8% + (Defender's Dexterity - Attacker's Dexterity) / 2.5
In this case, (Defender (that blocker)'s Dexterity - Attacker(Penguin)'s Dexterity) is represented by X-30-X. X minus X is equal to zero, so (Defender's Dexterity - Attacker's Dexterity) is negative thirty.
-30 divided by 2.5 is -12.
8 plus -12 is -4.
However, the minimum chance to block is 2%.
But wait- there's more! The opponent had Max Shadow Arts. That means that I have to add 10% to that 2%, bringing it to 12%, which is not a bad block chance.
But wait- there's (possibly) even more! Let's pretend that the opponent had the armor core Ninja Reflexes, which adds a 4% chance to block. Twelve plus four is sixteen.
So Penguin's opponent had either a 12% or 16% chance of blocking Penguin during the battle.
Originally, the main point of this post was going to be that your opponent still has a chance to do X action. And that's still true. However, I have come up with a better point during my writing of this post: There are variables that you do not know of- mainly, cores, and maybe a skill or two. So please take this into consideration before you post- think about how your opponent could have done what they did.
Thanks for reading this.
Off-topic: Exploding Penguin, from that same post, you said that you had a max Berzerker. When playing as a Mercenary (and as a BM before zerk was removed), I never put all of my points or centered my build around Berzerker- it's very risky to do so.
Merged similar Threads regarding luck. ~Lectrix
< Message edited by Lectrix -- 4/3/2013 15:19:32 >
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