Charm mechanic changes next patch?

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Originally Posted by Stonewallx39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you read Dolalins research it’s extremely weak. It’s not even remotely close to statistically significant or comparing like variables. The classic era (supposedly couldn’t personally verify) test had a small sample size and didn’t control for the effects of magic resistance debuffs. The test was 25 samples, and found a weak negative correlation between charisma and charm duration, where less charisma slightly improved charm duration.

I’d argue (and gosh darn it I’m a guy in the internet!) that magic resist/small level differentiation caused most of the volatility seen in the test results and as a result of a very high standard deviation the 25 sample size is not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions.

He did test magic resistance later, and found it was strongly correlated with charm duration.

The sample size is also extremely limited when it comes to mob level ranges.

There is no way to extrapolate this data, it simply is lacking.

The only possible outcome is making changes based on what it "feels" like, which p1999 never used to be about.

@loramin perhaps you and your buddies can elaborate on how the available data can be extrapolated into a model that covers caster level ranges 20-60, vs mob level ranges 20-60.

Given the high quality of the source material (which you claim anyway), this shouldn't be a problem?

Looking forward to that! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]