Get rid of critical misses

As the title says - there are few things more annoying than investing heavily into accuracy and still missing one in twenty attacks anyway through no fault of your own. The idea of random fumbles with something you're supposed to excel at might work in D&D, but has no business being in superhero genre.

{note: keep critical hits for both players and NPCs - being able to spec for total defense would be gamebreaking in so many ways}

An open letter to NCsoft

Critical...misses..? Eh? Never seen them before.
As for the 5% chance to miss even when at major Acc level... I guess it's needed for balance. And it also represents the enemies flailing madly trying to fend of being smushed into little squibbly heaps. Which is fair.

I'd still love some attacks, like Assassins Strike and Sniper rifle to ignore that 5% chance, though. So you can have 'Aimed' attacks that CAN have 100% chance of hitting. I know that'd make Snipe a bit more popular than it is at the moment (I still take it, mind, but it seems to get a lot of hate in the Powers forums)

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While I generally can't stand how finicky people are about the occasional miss, I actually do agree with you. Someone once said that if he were designing a game, players would only ever miss if the enemies had some way of either dodging or blocking their attacks. "Dodged" means the enemy is too fast to hit, so you missed. That's fine. It's how things go. "Miss" only means you suck and you missed. Not as inspiring.

I understand why stat-driven RPGs so often include accuracy as part of their basic structures, but I also fully believe that they don't need to. Heroes of Might and Magic is, basically, a stat-driven RPG, yet creature stacks NEVER miss another creature stack unless it's incorporeal, like Ghosts. You know that if you attack, you always hit and always do damage. It's just a matter of how much, which in turn is a matter of how strong the attacker is vs how strong the defender is.

That's not applicable in this game at this stage, though.

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"Critical miss," to me, means you missed so badly you hit yourself.

I'd love to see that. It would be greatly amusing.

That said, no to "My accuracy is perfect 100% of the time." Even the best person at some skill misses on occasion.

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I think this is prohibited by the ToHit clamp of 95% for a reason I can't remember, and not likely to change.

If you won the slot machines 100% of the time, you'd be bored, wouldn't you? I think this factors into risk vs. reward.

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I have to agree with Techbot in that there are some attacks which really should have 100% hit chance such as Sniper attacks and Assassin attacks. Dodge is perfectly okay as well as anything else, but when my AR Blaster 'misses' with Sniper Rifle, i can only wonder "Where you actually aiming the entire time you were looking through the scope?" Same goes for Assassin attacks.

A compromise i think, would be to have Sniper/Assassin attacks at about 98% Accuracy when fully buffed/enhanced etc. After all, they are supposed to be accurate attacks and seems rather odd that they would have the same accuracy as most other attacks.

Yea, let's remove the 5% chance to miss. Then the new softcap to defense will be 50% and my main will never get hit by anything.

I like this plan.

/sarcasm off.

Oh... yall only want this for players and not critters? Yea, I don't see that happening.

There's a specific reason I endorse this:

Twilight Grasp.

It really, really, sucks if your heals can miss. And especially if there is NOTHING you can do to prevent it from happening.

I'd really just be happy if they made ranged attacks not miss by a huge amount. It seems like you either always hit dead on or miss by a mile. Why can't attack animations just barely miss?

You know? I'd actually like it if the game had critical misses (i.e. you critical miss with your fireball and blow up yourself and allies instead; you aim a transference that, instead, heals the enemy). Would make for a more spicy game.

Incidentally, I think it'd be cool if *everyone* got critical hits (Stalkers, Scrappers, Corruptors, Controllers and VEATs just have another avenue of crits). Maybe even a *critical* critical hit...kind of like how Stalkers have a small chance of double AS, maybe a small chance to deliver a Deathblow despite enemy HP remaining.

sorry. just no. if you want to be able to hit 100% of the time, what are you willing to give up? and your argument of this is a super hero game is lame.

Well, if they have high enough an accuracy or our defense is bottomed out, why not?

Let me restate - I do not propose the removal of critical hits. The 5% chance to hit no matter what should remain.

An open letter to NCsoft

I like the idea of AS and Snipes having 100%.

Other than that, the 5% chance to miss should remain, else it unbalances things for both sides to a ridiculous level.

Don't look at it as you missing, look at it as the enemy dodging or deflecting your attack.

I'd be all for removing the 5% chance to miss when attacking minions. I'd also be for removing their 5% chance to hit.

Other games get by with all attacks never missing. So having hyper-accurate well slotted attacks never missing doesn't seem too big a stretch.

Players already have a streakbreaker which NPCs dont get (I think?)

I'd be in favour of dropping the 5% flat miss chance imposed on player attacks altogether. If you have Tactics, global acc bonuses and good slotting, why should you miss a street thug standing in quicksand 1 time out of 20?
Missing a MoG'd Paragon protector or Rikti Drone, or a Force Fielded enemy, sure. But I'm struggling to see what the 5% miss on most player powers really adds to the game other than occasional frustration. Sometimes big frustration, eg a stun attack misses just before a Fake Nem pops his bubble.

The 5% hit chance at the other end of the scale is cool. I've played enough soft-capped characters to understand the thrill of the occasional hit getting through when you're waltzing through a horde of enemies untouched.

Powers like Twilight Grasp do give me thought for pause though. Would they become overpowered if they always hit in normal situations? They'd still have a chance of missing higher defence enemies, so I think not.

Who are super? Powers like Twilight Grasp? NPCs?