Mids: How do I understand some values.

You know, I've been using mids for years now and I really enjoy making characters builds and trying to come up with ways to do new and interesting things, but I started realizng there's a few things I don't understand very well.

For one thing accuracy. I don't understand how the percentage translates into your ability to hit a mob. If I have a 147% accuracy, what are my chances to hit an equal level mob minion, lt., and boss?

I've always been under then assumption that anything over 200% was great and anything under 150% was not so good, but that was just some crazy parameter I put in place so I didn't really have to understand it. Now I'm just curious, because I think understanding it would help me improve my builds.

Endurance usage was another thing. I've never quite understood what was a good rate of consumption compared to recovery. I always figured if I could double recovery over what the consumption was I'd be good, but then again I've never known how to take into account my attacks would use over time.

I pretty much understand everything else really well, but it was finally bugging me that I still didn't understand these values very well.

The accuracy displayed is based on the normal 75% chance to hit an enemy your own level that has no defense. So, in those circumstances a 150% chance to hit is extremely overkill, since it caps at 95%. You can change that 75% value in options -> configuration -> exemping and base values -> base tohit. I often set it to 39 or 48, which is your base chance to hit a +4 or +3 enemy respectively.

To calculate endurance usage, you can add up the total cost of your attack chain, then divide it by the time it takes to execute the chain. That will give you the effective end/sec used by your attacks. Add that to the cost of your toggles and you have your total endurance consumption. If that value far exceeds your endurance recovery, you might have problems. Ideally your recovery will equal or exceed your total consumption, but for most builds in most situations it's good enough to have a small net drain (if you have a net drain of 1 end/sec, it still takes you 100+ seconds depending on accolades to run out of endurance when attacking nonstop). Powers that aren't strictly part of an attack chain are harder to translate directly into an end/sec number.

Oh wow....

This has made me realize that some of my builds really really really stink against +4's.

Thanks, Wonderslug. I actually thought there was a difference.

Rank may not have a direct effect on your chance to hit, but Lts. and bosses may be more likely to have some form of +defense power than minions.

Also take into account that to-hit debuffs will take a large toll on your ability to hit things. CoT's Spectral demon's Chill of the Night power is one example. Banished Pantheon Death Mask's dark blast, and the Storm Shaman's Hurricane are other examples of this. So seeing accuracy numbers far and above 95% shouldn't be considered overkill.

Might as well link him to the ParagonWiki page on the subject.

ParagonWiki: Attack Mechanics

A very rough rule of thumb I've used with Mid's foir endurance calculation is that having my end recovery at least 2 whole points per second above my end burn from toggles is a good place to be, assuming I have moderate end reduction slotting in my attack chain roughly one SO or more). It's not precise, because different powersets and playstyles will bur end at different rates. But it gives me a ballpark figure to determine how much more effort I need to put into endurance when looking at a build.