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If it can go down to 0.9, then a serpent with 22 dex and a L3 lash has about the same DPS as a 23 str bard/knight with a 122 damage 259 speed rapier.
I'm averaging about 1.37 seconds at 20 Dex with level 3 lash (and, obviously, Nimble).
Some basic information for those who don't have the skill to play with.
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To prepare a compound, you need a glass phial (sold in denizens shops for 50 gold each, single use) and a few minerals.
After making a compound, you enhance different aspects of it (potency generally makes the effect stronger, volatility generally makes it faster, stability sometimes does stuff), and then you either throw it or imbibe it.
Making and enhancing don't cost balance, so you can usually just carry around empty phials and have an alias to prepare, enhance, and use it at the same time.
It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but PHIALLIST will give you a list of all the phials you're carrying, showing the decay time and enhancements.
Does the mask actually do anything? I haven't found any effect from having it secured.
Throwing any compound takes 2.5s balance, and they can all either be thrown at the ground or into an adjacent room.
Imbibing doesn't take any balance.
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More on enhancing.
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You enhance each individual phial after making it.
Each phial can have a maximum of 5 enhancements. Each stat (potency, volatility, stability) starts at 1 and has a max of 5. That means you can max one stat and add 1 to another, or spread the enhancements however you want.
Not all enhancements apply to every compound. Most of them get no benefit from enhanced stability, for example.
Sometimes full enhancement (5) is required for any benefit, while 2-4 are the same as 1.
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And the details of each compound.
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Endorphin
Applies: Room effect in target room (thrown)
Function: Heals 9% of max health per tick, plus an additional (Potency)% of max health if potency is above 1
Tick Speed: 40/Volatility seconds
Duration: 14 ticks, no effect from stability
Repeated: Refresh
Nutritional
Applies: self (imbibed)
Function: I assume it simply satisfies your hunger, same as eating food. I haven't been hungry in years, so I'm not sure of the details.
Incendiary
Applies: Affliction to all in the target room (thrown)
Function: (MaxHealth+100)/12 fire damage per tick, increased by (Potency*12.5)% if potency is above 1
Tick Speed: 40/Volatility seconds
Duration: 14 ticks, no effect from stability
Repeated: No effect
Cure: Scrub in water, no balance cost, may require multiple scrubs
Petrifying
Applies: Self (imbibed)
Function: 10% physical resistance, 4% or 5% electric weakness, -1 move per second, no effect from potency
Duration: Doesn't wear off, can be stripped, no effect from volatility or stability
Insufflate
Applies: Self (thrown)
Function: Allows breathing underwater much like pear or calcite, except that it isn't lost when you leave the water
Duration: Doesn't wear off, can be stripped, no effect from volatility or stability
Devitalisation
Applies: Room effect in target room (thrown)
Function: Reduces max health by 5% of its normal value each tick, to a minimum of 50%, full potency doubles the effect, partial potency enhancements give no benefit
Tick Speed: 40/Volatility seconds
Duration: 14 ticks, no effect from stability
Repeated: Refresh
Cure: You regain 5% every 60 seconds if you're away from the gas (timer starts the last time you were hit by it). If you leave, start to recover, then go back into the gas and the next gas tick fires at the same time as the next recovery tick, both will fire.
Intoxicant
Applies: Room effect in the target room (thrown)
Function: Approximately 10.65% (an estimation, not sure of exact details) of max health in asphyxiation damage per tick, increased by (Potency*10)% if potency is above 1
Tick Speed: 40/Volatility seconds
Duration: 14 ticks, no effect from stability
Repeated: Refresh
Vaporisation
Applies: ??? (thrown)
Function: ??? (doesn't remove water from natural water rooms, possible clears frozen ground, icewalls, flooded rooms?)
Phosphorous
Applies: Affliction to all but self in target room? (thrown)
Function: ??? (incurable trueblind, presumably)
Duration: ???
Monoxide
Applies: ??? Prones self instantly when thrown on ground (thrown)
Function: ???
Duration: ???
Concussive
Applies: Instantly to all in target room (thrown)
Function: Throws everyone in a random direction, prevented by obstructions or mass. If thrown at ground, has an unknown chance to bypass mass. Effects of enhancements are unknown.
Enhancement and destructive are a secret. Also I may not have actually tested them yet.
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Vaporisation, phosphorous, and monoxide will need to be tested on someone else, which is why I have very little information for now. And testing concussive is going to take a lot of gold; I already ran myself out of magnesium, so I'll have to buy hundreds more of that, and hundreds of phials at 50 gold each. Alchemist is probably one of the most expensive classes to fight as now, maybe the most expensive now that knights don't need 100k gold weapons.
Knight Two-hander skull fracture increased sip balance effect increases by 1s per fracture, capping at 11s.
0 | 5s
1 | 6s
2 | 7s
3 | 8s
4 | 9s
5 | 10s
6 | 11s
7 | 11s
- Limb Counter - Fracture Relapsing -
"Honestly, I just love that it counts limbs." - Mizik Corten
Edit: Seems I overlooked Suladan's post in another thread where he already did this.
I have level 3 knuckles. In SCS kick is more. DRS Punch is more. Don't know how much cuz I suck at math. (is over of = percent over 100) 1.66 = kick, 1 = punch??
Target has 5012 Health
SCS
6 kicks = Break
9 punches = break
Combos:
3 Kicks, 5 punches = break (Two Full combos, 1 kick, 1 punch)
DRS
Kick= 7 break
Punch = 7 break
So Punch = 1, Kick = 1
Test with as many people as possible and record the results to a spreadsheet.
In other news, testing the effects of armour on denizen damage isn't as simple as I expected. I figured that if a denizen dealt X damage, armour would reduce the damage by Y% of X, with Y being equal to some percentage of the armour stat. Instead, it seems more likely that the denizen deals X±Y, and armour only reduces X, except that doesn't quite fit perfectly.
For example, I've been testing with the King Stag. Damage ranges from 459 to 741 (600±23.5% fits perfectly, but that could be a coincidence) with no armour/resistance. With roughly 21% armour (it's not possible to see actual stats any more, as far as I know, so 21% isn't exact), damage ranges from 394 to 670. It's possible that those aren't the actual limits (and I'll continue testing to be sure), but the sample sizes are high enough that it's unlikely.
If it was reducing the total damage, then I'm not sure how to account for the lower end being reduced by so much more than the higher end. On the other hand, if it is something like 600±23.5% or 459+(0 to 282) with armour only applying to the base (the 600 or 459), the higher end is being reduced slightly more than the lower end.
It could be explained by the damage being 459+(0 to 282) with armour applying to both the base and random portions at different rates (~14% reduction to the base and ~2% reduction to the random portion). But that seems unlikely.
I'm extremely knowledgeable regarding limb damage, its equations, and solving for them.
If you want to team up and solve for some of the equations, PM me or msg me in game. If you bring the data, I'll bring the maff skills, and we can get this done without me paying 900cr to class hop twice.
One thing I would like to FIRMLY dispel is the concept of "break points" (aka: magic numbers). There are no fixed "break points", until you plug in all applicable variables (meaning that the "break points" are different for every person, vs every person, per weapon, per attack type). Some systems (like SVO) use "breakpoints", or in some cases, linear (incorrect) equations that solve for break points based on max health. These are thumb-rules that do end up being accurate within a certain range (usually centered around 4000-5000 health) but can and often do result in being "one hit off", which is exactly one too many in either direction IMO.
For BMs, you can use Manda (which is 100% accurate). I'm planning on doing monk (next time I have a trans Tekura character) and am currently in the process of doing the new knight equations.
I thought I had scale too, but it looks like I missed it, sorry:
leather: 25/20
splint: 56/33
scale: 50/45
and shields just because:
buckler: 5/5
banded: 15/15
kite: 13/24
cavalry: 8/8
tower: 20/34
I'm fairly certain that that is not true, however I was specifically referring to Tekura in that post.
Magi staffstrikes probably just do heavily proportionate damage, possibly even outright doing 25% damage or something like that (probably a bit more, since Achaea seems to have issues with rounding things). I think I remember rumors that seemingly simple limb breaks that usually require four attacks sometimes required a fifth for outliers, as well.
From what little I know of limb damage, it definitely looked like it worked similar to ordinary damage, with attacks having a proportionate and a fixed damage value. That, or limb HP was calculated in some way based off of actual HP (or perhaps just level and constitution).
Unfortunately, I never gathered nearly enough data to get close to figuring out the exact values. Even with limb probing, there's not a lot of granularity to figure things out without just testing nearly every HP value you can.
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
@Nim it's a bit more complex than that (limb damage equations are rarely linear) - but yes that's the basic idea. My equations do not focus on number of hits (although that's easy to derive), they track the actual amount of limb damage (in hitpoints) each limb has taken. There are more applications for this than simply dividing that out for number of hits required to break - and for blademasters and monks specifically, it allows you to reliably switch between different attack types and stances without messing up a sloppy "hit count", without losing a single bit of accuracy.
If you have all of the individual damage values stored (rather than just the max and min), it might be interesting to histogram them and see if the distribution looks pretty uniform or peaked around some central value, and maybe try fitting them with a simple Gaussian. Or even just skip the histograms and compare the first few moments of the distributions (mean, variance, skewness) with and without armour.