Aett_Thorn

Do you mean Storm Kick? Isn't that the one that gives the defense bonus?

You should be able to track base ToHit in the Combat Attirbutes window. However, you can also figure this out mathematically, if you want.

Fighting even level enemies, most attacks have a 75% chance of hitting. Going down to -1s, this should increase to about 85% or so. Slotting a single DO should have you capped at 95% chance to hit -1s.


Edit -> Actual math:

If you're one level above the enemy, your powers are 1.11 times more accurate. .75 * 1.11 = 83.25. An even -level DO is approximately an 16.67% increase. 83.25 * 1.1667 = 97%, which is over the cap of 95%.

You're not missing 90% of the time. However, the human brain is weird, and tends to remember the string of misses while ignoring the string of hits as "normal behavior." It's also horrible at determining randomness.

Low-level characters have an inherent called "Beginner's Luck" which increases accuracy at low levels. This slowly fades as you level up until at level 20 it's completely gone. At DO-levels, you should be slotting some accuracy enhancements in order to compensate for this loss, and by the time you get SOs, you should be back at 95% accuracy easily.

I can't help reading this and thinking of the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I can just see the head of Detective Ghaly sitting alone on the ground after a bloody battle, yelling at the Shivans for being wussies.

So then the Standard Code Rant does apply.

The OP said that it would be a simple change, when in fact it is impossible to do without a complete rebuild of the game. Seems like a perfect use of the Standard Code Rant.

What I would like them to do and what they have to do are two completely separate things.

They are not obligated to pay us anything or to give us anything in-game. They're just not. Would it be a good business move? SURE! I'm not arguing with you there. I'm only saying that they are under no obligation to do so, and it doesn't make them a bad business to not give us anything because something broke while they tried to make the game better for everyone.

And while that's great for WoW, I think they've also got a lot more players and a lot more income that allows them to do things like this.

Yes, it is either one of those, or a massive problem discovered during one of those that was not anticipated nor expected, otherwise it would have been built into the schedule. Should we expect them to compensate us for something they didn't know would happen?

Bad example, because they do sometimes take down service to expand capabilities, and you still get nothing back from them. At least I haven't yet, even when they've done this exact same thing. It is reasonable to assume that a company will attempt to try to expand it's capabilities, and that may require some downtime.

Who is telling us to go pancake ourselves? The Devs sure aren't. They're trying to FIX THE PROBLEM!

You heard it here first, people, in compensation for the downtime, SolarSentai will give everyone 2 influence!

Hey, I didn't say that they should, just that they can. If they were to do that, I would imagine that they'd be out of business, you're right. However, a few hours is not comparable to a whole month, especially when they've been up at peak hours more often than not.

While true, in this case, I think that it would be. If my cable goes out due to an electrical storm, does the cable provider pay me back, despite the fact that I pay for a full month of cable at a time, and I won't be getting that? No, they certainly don't. The reasonable man argument would uphold this end of the EULA.

Yes, actually, they can.

"Hiding" behind the EULA is being a bit harsh. That's exactly why that provision is there. "Unexpected stuff happens, and while we'll try to minimize it, we owe you nothing if it happens" is that section in a nutshell.

If a bank is being robbed, and I can't gain access to a teller, is that the bank's fault? Do they owe me something for the inconvenience? No, they certainly do not. Even if I pay them a monthly fee for access to the tellers.

Is this inconvenient? Yes, it is. Does NCSoft owe any of us anything? No. If they did give us something, would it be nice? Sure! But I don't expect them to do anything because of an unexpected problem. Anybody who thought that the transition to Freedom could be done without needing some significant upgrades to the hardware was kidding themselves.

^This. And doesn't the EULA basically state that you won't get any money back for necessary maintenance? They're physically moving the servers today. That takes time, and obviously something unexpected happened in that process. You are entitled to nothing.

Yeah, they DO try to keep it to 2 hours. But if something doesn't go the way they expected it to, it takes a bit longer. Unexpected problems can't be accounted for, and we shouldn't expect them to.

Hey, my house has more than enough room for them. If they can't get them in there in the time allotted, that's not my fault.

You guys had just better hope I'm careful with my coffee, or this is going to become a single-player game for me real fast.

Yup, same here. Had to "reset" my password, it failed, but I was able to login to the forums. And yeah, I'm having the same trouble with the "remember me" button. It's really getting annoying.

Yeah, I'm confused as well. "Necessary maintenance" generally means that it's necessary, and can't be avoided.

The game going down for maintenance > the game never being available ever again.

Not gonna happen anytime soon. The Devs have come out against this multiple times.



As to the origin change token, I certainly wouldn't mind it, but I do think that origin is something so baked into the character spreadsheets that it may not be a simple thing to change.