Posts made by Razvan

I made a table here about how different luck values modify different chances.

PS: Some mobs (animals, spiders, goblins) have less piercing armor than crushing armor. In that case, spear has faster clear-time and you kill most of them within the two aoe stuns anyway.

@Roccandil said in General feedback:

Albion's system of trashing gear when killed in PvP is a good one,

Agreed on this one! Some items also get "lost" when you sell them to the black market, so this also help in the sustainable economy goal. Black market in general is a cool feature because it allows mobs to drop some items while keeping the idea that everything is crafted by players.

The problem with Fractured is that there will be little PvP in Arboreus. My solution would be: items should be repairable, but unlike other planets, on Arboreus they'll also lose max durability (which can't be restored). Regardless, going through 3 spears in a night of farming is not reasonable.

It's easy to notice if you create a character with 10int (=20 mana regen) and activate frenzy (which costs 20mana). Idle for a minute with just frenzy active and you'll notice the mana drops with 20 every few seconds, instead of being constant (since mana regen = toggle skill mana cost).

@Stacy555
It's an alpha test with a specific focus and very little content - if you played the previous tests, it should take you about half a day to do everything and unlock all abilities. Of course the server will be mostly empty after 3 days!

just a few threads below yours

https://forum.fracturedmmo.com/topic/10393/new-world-by-amazon-anyone-interested

I have to agree, Recoil. It was fun sharing resources and helping each other build houses. Hopefully, the next patch will have more support skills and bosses/harder PvE that we can do together.

@kellewic
Thank you! It makes much more sense now.

For anyone interested, I added a tabel of how chances scale with -100 to 1000 luck.

@asspirin
I am looking at the wiki and the listed calculation is this:

Am I missing something or what? I made another toon with 610luck and 23% crit chance. According to the formula above,
triangle_sign = Chance - Chance * (1+ Luck/1000) = 0.23 - 0.23 * (1 + 610/1000) = -0.14
Biased Chance = Chance + triangle_sign = 0.23 + (-0.14) = 0.09

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@GorTavaro @kellewic
After a quick thought, maybe the formula is actually

this way, with my previous data,

triangle_sign = 0.23 - 0.23 * (1 - 0.61) = 0.23 * ( 1 - 1 + 0.61) = 0.23 * 0.61 = 0.14
Biased Chance = 0.23 + 0.14 = 0.37

So basically, without taking in account other luck bonuses (from talents and items)
6CHA = 0.9x actual chance (23% -> 20.7%)
19CHA = 1.225x actual chance (23% -> 28.2%)
20CHA = 1.45x actual chance (23% -> 33.4%)

I think it's WAY MORE intuitive to show that the actual critical chance in this case is 37%, instead of showing 23% crit chance and 610 luck.

@maze
Fair enough, I thought you were speaking for the full extend of this alpha and I assumed they'd eventually add the polearm and CHA nodes.
I don't think quarterstaff would benefit from both masteries. At least in my opinion, they shouldn't. 1h weapons can stunlock just as well and with the shieldblock/enchantments you're a lot tankier. I agree that in the current state PvE, 2h weapons have better clear time, however, I'd suspect 1h could be quite powerful in PvP. My point in the previous post was not that all weapons are equal, but that you see more diversity in builds than in the earlier tests when everyone was either spear or mage.

@Zori
If I can suggest slight modifications to your build: the last poison node gives poison immunity, so you can invest 5 points instead of 8 and get better stats (remove red, add blue). Now you have 3 extra points. If you remove the points from the 2nd fortitude node (light red) and add them to the 3rd one (light blue), you have access to the -20% CC time reduction node. Same with the armor nodes (dark red and dark blue), which would unlock the +20% armor node. Now you have one extra point, which I'd put in 5% passive CC on blunt weapons.

• Spear nodes are not implemented yet.
• When you compare 1h vs 2h weapons you should take into consideration enchants because 2h weapons have 4slots in total, while 1h weapons + shield have 8slots. To that, you should add the material bonus of the shield/offhand. Not to mention that shield block makes you a lot tankier.
• There is no best overall weapon. For example, skeletons take very little pierce damage (spear, bow), but a lot of blunt damage. On the other hand, spear still has a much better clear time on goblins. I agree that this test brought much better diversity that what we previously had.
• Hopefully, they add a significant critical bonus on superior knives or restrict the assassination school to them because at this point they are just (much) worse handaxes.

Great to hear, especially about #5!

By the way, @Prometheus: when you visit the docks, it says they are not implemented yet, but they will be sometimes this test. Are there other features you plan to implement during this test? Can you share them with us?

@Shivashanti
Maybe it's a bug with shields, but you can't cast spells as long as you have a medium one in the shield slot.

@Silynx

Is there a way to hide user signatures? On other platforms you could ignore a specific user's signature, or just hide all by default. Is it possible here?

Honestly, I feel 60 points is too much already.

I mean, in my build I got +2str, +2con, +2per, +2dex, all the melee damage nodes, +50% critical damage & 5% critical chance, 2 full nodes of accuracy / evasion / mres, one node of armor + 20% armor bonus and 2 and half nodes of HP: clicky.

I'd either lower it to around 40 points to make the decision more impactful or create a bunch of less powerful nodes near the center and move the attribute ones towards the end of the trees.

@Roccandil
With the current talent tree you can solo everything* with unenchanted primitive weapons and hide armor (rags for mages).

*with the exception of whisps for melee/archers since those are immune to physical damage

Right now, not much, but I assume they will make more sense when stuff like farming and breeding gets added.

This sounds like a neat idea until you realize that every time you'll be afk in town you're going to bank all your stuff, or until you do mass crafting and you have to sit in front of the monitor watching a bar go blue instead of being afk. I don't dislike PvP in towns altogether, but the tavern/crafting facilities area should be safe.

I don't want to see huge alliances such the ones in Albion. I can live with that, but I'd prefer not to have them.

Albion also said we'll have EU servers and it never happened. From dev's point of view, It makes no sense to have 2 servers if the population is not big enough. If you only have one server, it's a reasonable compromise to have it in east US rather than in Europe because more people will have decent ping (Europe, N America, S America).