{"id":395,"date":"2006-06-06T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2006-06-06T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T16:10:05","slug":"this-explains-a-few-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/this-explains-a-few-things\/","title":{"rendered":"This explains a few things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"City of Heroes Official Forums\" href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Number=5703245\">The officially-listed boosts given for Defense, Acc, Resist, and Damage inspirations (25, 33, and 55%, by size) are, generally, nowhere near the &#8216;real&#8217; numbers.<\/a><br \/>\nArcanaville (who figured it out and pointed it out to the Devs, who hadn&#8217;t realized it:)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAlthough I cannot say she was the first to put it this way, it was Kali&#8217;s multiple reports of lucks &#8220;not working until enough of them were used&#8221; that got me thinking that they might not have been broken, just weaker than advertised. Which caused me to run specific tests looking for the ramp up\/ramp down behavior, which I was able to reproduce consistently in at least one instance.<br \/>\nThe question I posed to pohsyb was this (paraphrased): are lucks modified by the AT scale modifiers, in such a way to reduce their strength, because they appear to me to be working at lower than their advertised numerical value.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The real numbers?<br \/>\nDEF<br \/>\nS &#8211; 12.5%<br \/>\nM &#8211; 25%<br \/>\nL &#8211; 33%<br \/>\nACC<br \/>\nS &#8211; 7.5%<br \/>\nM &#8211; 18.75%<br \/>\nL &#8211; 37.5%<br \/>\nRES<br \/>\nS &#8211; 10%<br \/>\nM &#8211; 15%<br \/>\nL &#8211; 20%<br \/>\nDMG<br \/>\nS &#8211; 25%<br \/>\nM &#8211; 33%<br \/>\nL &#8211; 50%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officially-listed boosts given for Defense, Acc, Resist, and Damage inspirations (25, 33, and 55%, by size) are, generally, nowhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}