Game Mechanics: The Master Stamina Bug Report (2017)

[Rygar]

Damn, you sure know how to get your research Sorn. I'm jelly, teach me master! I need better hunting spots for data!

I found the drowning data interesting, if ignoring Vah Shir and Iksar data from the data set, we have this info to go off of:

STA= 70, starts drowning in 40 seconds
STA= 78, starts drowning in 50 seconds
STA= 85, starts drowning in 56 seconds
STA= 87, starts drowning in 60 seconds
STA= 96, starts drowning in 68 seconds
STA=116, starts drowning in 90 seconds
STA=150, starts drowning in 105 seconds

Based off that, I would speculate the following:
-The minimum drown time is 30 seconds
-The maximum drown time is 130 seconds (based on iksar test)
-Formula for drowning should be:

If STA =< 115, Time to Drown = (STA - 55) + 30
If STA > 115, Time to Drown = ((STA - 115) / 2) + 90
If Result < 30 seconds, then Time to Drown = 30

Roughly speaking you gain +1 second to drown timer if stamina for every stamina point above 60, but only if stamina is 120 or less. After 115 stamina you gain +1 second to drown timer for every 2 stamina points.

The formulas come out pretty close, those tests could be slightly bugged with some server tick checks or what not. Seems to be within margin of error?

If factoring in 130 second drown ceiling, that would mean ~200 stamina would be your target for maximum time to hold your breath. Additional stamina over this does nothing (kind of consistent with how have over 200 INT did near nothing for your mana pool in classic).

We can also conclude that swim skill had nothing to do with drowning, and that Iksar had a hidden racial ability to ignore STA calculation in drowning and always had max timer (Master Race status: CONFIRMED).