Very nice work. It'll take me a couple readings to fully grasp, but on a preliminary basis your conclusions look well-founded. A couple initial comments:
You suggest that charisma does not impact charm duration, and therefore is overvalued as a stat. I don't play an enchanter, but my understanding has always been that high charisma is mainly valued for the impact on the lull line of spells, not charms.
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Originally Posted by charleski
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I haven't formally tested this yet. This is largely because, as mentioned earlier, I frequently notice charms that last so long that tash wears off, which obviously will have a confounding effect on the succeeding trials, and I'm not sure how to handle these instances.
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Since every tick is an independent trial, when parsing the log couldn't you track the log entry for tash wearing off and group subsequent trials separately from tash-active trials?
The test comparing durations for the orc pawn versus the EJ skeleton is interesting. I would expect that a 46-level difference would completely saturate any level-dependent effect, but a 10-12 level difference I would have expected to be small enough to show an impact if there was one. I'm happy to volunteer two hours supporting further testing with either a 60 druid or 55 cleric.