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to hit sucks!

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You have +36 to hit and +17 on damage.

A pike-wielding duergar hates your guts!

You miss a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.[/color:iudf4enl]

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A pike-wielding duergar misses you with his pierce.

You miss a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.[/color:iudf4enl]

You massacre a pike-wielding duergar to small fragments with your pierce.

You deal a massive blow to one of a pike-wielding duergar’s vital organs.

You viciously massacre a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.

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A pike-wielding duergar misses you with his pierce.

You massacre a pike-wielding duergar to small fragments with your pierce.

You brutally massacre a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.

You miss a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.[/color:iudf4enl]

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A pike-wielding duergar misses you with his pierce.

You miss a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.[/color:iudf4enl]

You deal a massive blow to one of a pike-wielding duergar’s vital organs.

You viciously massacre a pike-wielding duergar with your pierce.

A pike-wielding duergar is dead! R.I.P.

Total exp for kill is 25696.

Don’t tell me this is a bad luck or roll or whatever. Damn, this even not highlvl mob, it’s only 21lvl. And I miss 1d3 each round?

Can anyone explain me why this happens, maybe tohit capped at +15 and thats all or whats wrong with it? Or maybe I completly misunderstand tohit logic?

I don’t understand it either, +26 to hit or so in my shift mode, and I’m often missing once each round… You can’t really argue the “skills 85%” argument either when your shape shifted dragon, I just don’t understand, why all the missing?

Does anyone know the mathematics of calculating hits?

For what it’s worth, you can drink a couple of those +hitroll potions from valk and get your HR up to 80+ and you still miss about the same ratio. On a similiar note, most of these MOB’s walking around naked, it’s a wonder that there aren’t any anti-nudity laws.

I’ve always assumed (humanoid)mobs and pcs alike were clothed to start with, and the stuff listed in eq was just things you wouldn’t normally be wearing. People aren’t normally naked under armor and robes and whatnot.

Mobs get a desc talking about clothes too of course.

I see these guys running around with a bunch of +hit and I just shake my head. I run Medios at +15 +27dmg, with -8 ac and about 45sb. I couldnt give up the dmg or spellbonus for +hit. As far as dropping 3 points of ac so I can miss just as many stabs, not gonna do it.

I think that +hit ceases to be beneficial somewhere around +20,21,22. This is just from casual observation and discussion with others though.

People aren’t normally naked under armor and robes and whatnot.[/quote:3gtgbrrl]

I am :roll:

Jason likes to Commando Style it up!

talk about +dex ;)

I run at 34/17 and +hit’s not a problem, but i would like more dmg. Focus is cool and plus hit just doesnt matter unless you’re fighting gargs(which might br changed, kj said he fucked eitht hem to test hitrolls.

Is damage capped at all? 34dam is pretty bloody impressive.. I’d think many mobs would do a woozle and drop dead with fright just at the sight of you.

Would you mind posting your 34dam eq mode 13 and classo? That would be interesting!

I personally think +hit stops having effect a little lower than Juggleblood probably around 10-15 and I think it should be changed to make more of a difference.

I figure I hit around about 85% of the time… which is what skills are set at… But then what is the point of having +hit then? So many +hit should add percentages to that missing 15%. At about +30 to hit you should be operating at around 95% of hits. That’s my opinion.

Another thing I think is fairly pointless… fluidity… slam me if you must… but if your prime druid, under aegis, stone skin and shield of thorns, it seems the extra advantage of fluidity is almost pointless… unless the shield drops… which it nearly always does. I can understand how it makes a difference to non prime druids… but with shield up, it’s effect is near not noticeable.

I’d love to know the mathematics of fluidity and if the effect of shield of thorns does seem to almost cancel it’s effect out. (That’s not a statement, that’s a request for an immortal to be open about it? Please?)

A reckon an avatar druid, monk, cleric, necro could have the maddest damage absorption ever. I’m tempted to make one.

As Minstrel has said previously, its prolly unwise to sacrifice +hit for damage, unless you’ve got a really crappy hitroll.

AC was fixed to work properly on mobs about a year ago i think? I think mob AC across the mud is set rather willy nilly. At one point people feared that thieves would be put out of business by improved mob ac (when KJ toyed with the gargoyles). But it never happened (and gargoyle ac was returned to normal). For hit roll to be more meaningful and consistent, mob AC would have to be also. So be careful what you ask to be “fixed”. :)

yeah, ive considered several times fixing mob AC and mob hitrolls to be consistent. But I don’t really think thats what you want across the board.

Dragons imo should be much lower AC and much higher hitrolls, as should giants, gods, powers, and the like.

Beware what you wish for ;)

Jezer, +26 to hit shifted is not the same as +26 unshifted. Players get thaco bonuses while mobs (shapeshifts) dont. A +26 shifted is pretty much the same as a warrior with +7 hitroll…

It will miss a mob or player character with -16 ac half the time and with

-10 ac 20% of the time.

Really you can make simple scripts to see how often to see you hit. You’ll find most player characters unshifted hit 95% of the time.

Supposedly +hit has an effect on stabbing. I sure havent seen any affect on dtouch because it still only hits 77% of the time weather in +14 or +17 (measured from several thousand touches). I’d like to know peoples measurements on tohit with stab (or touch). All I hear from people are ‘oh yeah it helps lots’ or ‘I can’t tell the difference’ some other qualitative nonsense.

As for fluidity, it makes a very significant difference, at least greater fluidity does. Its 15-20% less.

well, i’ve been tracking my stabs, i seem to hit about 82% of the time (out of about 1000 stabs) at +20 hit. I haven’t tested that much with lower hit, i ran at +18 for a little while and hit about 81% but that was only out of maybe 3-400 stabs.

I run at +24 hit for stabbing, and here’s what I got:

TTL: 1608, Hits: 1321, Miss: 287, Rate: 82%, Exc.Blow: 18.

Looks like its time to get rid of that hamster collar :D

moldy leader

You recite a damp moldy scroll which dissolves.

The bachelor prince is enmeshed in thick webs!

The bachelor prince growls at you and attacks!

The bachelor prince hates your guts!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The silk webbing simply falls to the ground, as the bachelor prince is already webbed!

The silk webbing simply falls to the ground, as the bachelor prince is already webbed!

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your claw.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince impales himself on thorns round your body!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his crush.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

The bachelor prince suddenly rises up behind a huge black dragon (Apprentice) and places his stiletto into his back.

You feel a sickly cold pain between your shoulders as the stiletto finds its target.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your bite.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his crush.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your bite.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You are thirsty.

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You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his crush.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

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You miss the bachelor prince with your claw.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You miss the bachelor prince with your whip.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

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You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your bite.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his crush.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

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You miss the bachelor prince with your claw.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his crush.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your claw.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

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score

Apprentice send tell if u wanna hand with something (level: 40)

Your levels: Dr: 40 Cl: 40 Ne: 40 Ma: 40 Av: 3

You are 27 years and 5 months old.

You are a citizen of Lyme.

You are a devout worshipper of Jake.

You are an example to us all.

You have visited most of this area.

You’ve seen 38.6% of the world.

You aren’t controlling any followers right now.

You have (1264/1450+85) hit, (312/607+42) mana and (131/150+46) movement points.

Your armor class is -10.0.

You have +30 to hit and +17 on damage.

You have 613533 gold coins.

You have 77196960 unused experience points.

You have been playing for 34 days and 2 hours.

You are a member of sidekickers.

You are well-attuned to the enhancement stratum.

Str: 14 / 0, Int: 18, Wis: 18, Dex: 17, Con: 15

You are currently in the form of a huge black dragon (Apprentice).

Your current form’s stats are:

Str: 25 / 70, Int: 18, Wis: 18, Dex: 18, Con: 18

You are fighting the bachelor prince.

You are protected by a shield of thorns.

You are affected by the following spells:

Detect Invisible

Sense Life

Darksight

Aegis

Fly

Water Breathing

Stone Skin

Strength

Greater Fluidity

Wraithform

Shapeshift

Shield of Thorns

Haste

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You miss the bachelor prince with your claw.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your whip.

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince impales himself on thorns round your body!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince impales himself on thorns round your body!

The bachelor prince massacres you to small fragments with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

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Your body returns to its natural solid state.

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You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his crush.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

The bachelor prince struggles weakly within the pile of sticky webs.

The bachelor prince suddenly rises up behind a huge black dragon (Apprentice) and places his stiletto into his back.

You feel a sickly cold pain between your shoulders as the stiletto finds its target.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your bite.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

The bachelor prince struggles weakly within the pile of sticky webs.

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You brutally massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You miss the bachelor prince with your bite.[/color:zoqrlbdp]

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince misses you with his slash.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

The bachelor prince struggles weakly within the pile of sticky webs.

The bachelor prince suddenly rises up behind a huge black dragon (Apprentice) and places his stiletto into his back.

You feel a sickly cold pain between your shoulders as the stiletto finds its target.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your bite.

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your whip.

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

The bachelor prince’s blow passes right through you with no effect!

You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

The bachelor prince struggles weakly within the pile of sticky webs.

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You massacre the bachelor prince to small fragments with your claw.

The bachelor prince is mortally wounded, and will die soon, if not aided.

You viciously massacre the bachelor prince with your claw.

The bachelor prince is dead! R.I.P.

Total exp for kill is 1727985.

Your blood freezes as you hear the bachelor prince’s death cry.

The drunken wagoneer gets gold coins from inside the corpse of the bachelor prince.

And yes… the drunken wagoneer paid for his treachery! :twisted:

11 misses from about 81 attacks… A hit rate of 86% with +30 to hit… what is the point of +hit? Seems like it does nothing at all. 85% should be the hit rate of a plain skill without all this +hit business!

85% should be the hit rate of a plain skill without all this +hit business![/quote:od2x42e0]

Are you sure it ‘should be’ at 85%?

Go track it.

I’ve poked 9304 holes in mobs and nearly lost 1510 fingers.

86%. those are mostly all at +27 to hit and i started keepin track after the

changes to +hit went in. and when you factor in all the misses on that darn third stab, which almost always miss when solo it’s really a pretty high rate of stabs. also on that note:

You feel informed:

Object ‘bloodstone skull ring blood stone’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: GLOW MAGIC

Weight: 1, Value: 10000gold, Worn in: TAKE FINGER

AC-apply is -0.3

Can affect you as:

Affects: HITROLL by 1

Only those who are at least master thieves or monks may use this item.

nice lil new item from chasm for thief types.

Years ago, I tested stab results by running a thief prime and collecting numbers for awhile. My plan was to run with minimum to-hit bonus, collect numbers, then wear as much to-hit as I could find and collect numbers. It’s important to select your test mobs carefully. If you’re currently hitting all the time (no misses due to target AC) then improving your to-hit bonus wouldn’t show any change.

My tests were done long before the new classes were introduced, I had a 40-30 thief-mage. Warrior must have been in the teens, so I probably didn’t have much inherent to-hit based on classes. I found a set of 4 mobs that I hit/missed in normal battle about 50% of the time. I ran that set of mobs and collected stab numbers just for those 4 mobs for 100 runs. After that, I changed eq to wear an additional +11 to-hit. I collected stab numbers for another 100 runs.

I don’t have any of the original data to share, but the end result was “no difference”. Of course, this was years ago and much of the code may have changed since. In summary, I myself wouldn’t drop damage or AC for any additional to-hit. In my experience, to-hit bonuses don’t affect stab rates. I don’t have a thief prime anymore, but I’d be interested to see similar numbers from anyone else.

Charles

You feel informed:

Object ‘bloodstone skull ring blood stone’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: GLOW MAGIC

Weight: 1, Value: 10000gold, Worn in: TAKE FINGER

AC-apply is -0.3

Can affect you as:

Affects: HITROLL by 1

Only those who are at least master thieves or monks may use this item.

nice lil new item from chasm for thief types.[/quote:3u7tmm5l]

where’s that pop at?

alberich. i posted the pop mob on the chasm eq thread but forgot to add it

to this thread. it pops on the druid mercs near entrance.

avatar. up until a few months ago i would have totally agreed. +hit had no affect on stab rate at all. but then they changed the code on stab to

take +hit into affect. like some of the other thieves posted, in the low +20’s they hit low to mid 80%. it’s a given you shouldn’t give up dmg, but

dropping some ac is generally worth it at the higher lvls. i know most thieves plan on splorking the mob anyway, so who cares about ac!!