Its simpler than that, and worse in most cases. generally resisting either
one cause a total resist of the spell. That sends you back to the 49.75% I
sent in the other post. Yech.

Kit

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Jerrad Segal [mailto:birdman@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 3:05 PM
To: eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Stats 101 (was Deepwater Gobs)

From: Benjamin Jerrad Segal <birdman@...>

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 wrote:

> We all know that mobs get a second resist check against pixie strike and
> lullaby. Lets say for the first check they get a 25% (1 out of 4) chance
to
> resist and a 33% (1 out of 3) chance for the second resist. Whats the
> overall chance that they make just one of the two resists?

/em steps up to the plate.

Two resist checks, first (.25), second (.33). If they succeed in
resisting just one, they must fail the other, so

(.25)*(.67)=(.1675) for a success and failure,
(.75)*(.33)=(.2475) for a failure and success,
for a total of (.41) or 41% chance of resisting just one.

Of course, not knowing whether it was a single or double resist, you might
want to factor in a success and success, that being

(.25)*(.33)=(.0825)

totalling (.4925) or 49.25% chance of resist on a strike with given
values.

Athren

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