My group derailed a train at the zone in Mistmoore last night
while ressing people at the zone. The enchanter had just
left, so I fired up Lullaby and turned on my logfile.
Afterwards, I went through and tallied up the results by hand
(Win98 did something to make Linux unbootable so I couldn't
automate it...)
All the mobs were green to low blue to me. I got experience
on 4 or 5 of them. L45 bard, 154 charisma, lute equipped.
N = nods
r = nods, but succeeds at secondary resist
R = resists entirely
- = killed
dark ritualist pet NNRNrNrrRNrNrrr-
dark ritualist NNrN-
dark ritualist pet rrNNrN-
dark ritualist pet rrrrrrN NrNrrNNrNrNNrN
dark ritualist NrRNNrrNNr-
dark ritualist rrNNr rrRrNrNNrr-
dark offerer pet rrNNrNNrNNrrNrrrNNNrrNNN
shadowy scribe NNrrrrrNrrrrr NN rrNRrrrrrrN-
dark offerer rNNNrrNrNrrrrNN-
flouting gargoyle NrNrrrrrN-
leering gargoyle rRN-
glyphed sentry rrrNRNrrrNNrrNNN NrNRNrrR-
glyphed sentry NrNNrrrrrrNrNr-
glyphed sentry rrNrNNN-
Summary:
dark ritualist pets 18N (43%) 22r (52%) 2R (5%) 42 total
dark ritualist 13N (45%) 14r (48%) 2R (7%) 29 total
dark offerer pet 13N (54%) 11r (46%) 0R (0%) 24 total
dark offerer 7N (47%) 8r (53%) 0R (0%) 15 total
shadowy scribe 7N (27%) 18r (69%) 1R (4%) 26 total
flouting gargoyle 3N (33%) 6r (67%) 0R (0%) 9 total
leering gargoyle 1N (33%) 1r (33%) 1R (33%) 3 total
glyped sentries 19N (42%) 23r (51%) 3R (7%) 45 total
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total 81N (42%) 103r (53%) 9R (5%) 193 total
Comments: This isn't as bad as it looks at first glance
because I'm pretty sure Lullaby works like Pixie Strike, where
once a mob is nodded (N), a (r) results in the mob staying
nodded. i.e. "rrrrr" represents the mob staying awake for 5
rounds, but "Nrrrr" represents the mob staying asleep for 5
rounds (assuming you get Lullaby to pulse again before the
previous pulse expires - those stupid pets kept bashing me out
of my song and this wasn't the case a couple times).
Conclusion:
- The chance of mobs outright resisting (R) is 5% at my
charisma and against these low level mobs. It would seem my
charisma is high enough that I've hit the 5% cap, at least
against these low level mobs. This is about what I'd expect
considering 154 is pretty high by anyone's standards.
- Secondary resists (r) are not working as GZ said. During
the Lullaby test, he said the chance of a secondary resist
ranged from 25% to 35% (against L1 and even /con mobs
respectively - I finally read the log :), modified by
charisma. I'm getting roughly 50% secondary resists against
green mobs, higher against low blues, which would indicate
something is broken.
I don't think the mobs buffed themselves with magic resist
since their chance of a primary resist was at the 5%
cap. The dark ritualist pet that was summoned after someone
killed the first one (neat trick that :) most certainly wasn't
buffed in any way, yet still had a secondary resist rate of
57%.
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John H. Kim
kim@...