Game Mechanics: CHA seems to be impacting charm durations on P99 far more than it did on Live

[strawman]

Originally Posted by Dolalin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think so, because he also ran a test with a light-green-con Seafury Cyclops and it showed no impact of CHA on his charms. If it were a negative impact I would expect it to show something. Rather it just looks like the effect of CHA was so small it gets lost in statistical noise.

From the same classic link:

The inverse charisma effect was present in the same magnitude in both sets of tests on the blue mob, and it was absent in both sets of tests on the green mob.

If we're using this data to prove no correlation between charisma and charm time, it seems strange to hand-wave away the correlation it shows between charisma and charm time.

[Dolalin]

If CHA were working to increase mob resistance don't you suppose we'd see it in the result set for the green mob too?

It just seems really improbable that it worked to decrease charm duration. But maybe it was bugged that way. Wouldn't be the first time Verant screwed up.

[strawman]

Originally Posted by Dolalin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If CHA were working to increase mob resistance don't you suppose we'd see it in the result set for the green mob too?

It just seems really improbable that it worked to decrease charm duration. But maybe it was bugged that way. Wouldn't be the first time Verant screwed up.

This data says to me that there is indeed a ticking CHA-based resistance throw for charm, but it's always successful on a trivial mob, and it's backwards on non-trivial mobs (succeeding more with lower CHA).

This doesn't necessarily make intuitive sense to the player, and maybe the backwards CHA check is a bug, but Verant did make items like https://wiki.project1999.com/Staff_of_Writhing for some reason.

(Upon actually reading the Staff of Writhing wiki page, it drops from a mob that charms. I wonder if that was supposed to be a clue?)