New Bard w/ some questions

[Videri]

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

We can reasonably extrapolate that 25 cha to being about 125% less likely to gt a crit lull resist. That sounds pretty damn good to me.

That would be about 25% less likely, not about 125% less likely. But yes, the more charisma the better.

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

And why aren't you lulling, charming or mezing at 60? do tell?

• I’m lulling, but only blue mobs. It lands most of the time. We can CC if it doesn’t.
• Charm song lasts 18 seconds. Charisma matters so little for that particular purpose.
• Mez will land almost every time on blue mobs, and last the full 18-second duration.

[DMN]

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

That would be about 25% less likely, not about 125% less likely. But yes, the more charisma the better.

You cant even do second grade level math.

Holy cow.

[Videri]

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

You cant even do second grade level math.

Holy cow.

“95 Cha, 200 tests -- 71 critical resists (ie 35.5% crit rate)
200 Cha, 200 tests -- 15 critical resists (ie 7% crit rate)”

Looks like we were both wrong. It’s not 25%, 125%, or 500%.
7/35.5 = 19.7% as many crit resists
28.5/35.5 = 80.3% fewer crit resists

Is this right?

[GuiltyLight]

"Less likely" is kind of a wonky way to phrase statistics.

If you had 10 incidents out of x cycles, and after a change you had 5 incidents out of x cycles, you'd be better off saying something like "50% as many incidents", not "100% less likely to have an incident". That's just a weird way of putting it, especially when you start dealing with actual numbers and not nice, round examples. It's not wrong, it's just... weird.

It's like people who got tripped up by thac0 in AD&D. AC was a modifier, not the target number. But 99% of DMs tried to explain it as if AC was your TN. It's not technically wrong, because you can do it like that, but it just makes it less intuitive.