Armor Hinderance

[Iriscience]

>125 other cof
>
You feel more refreshed.
>
You utter a light chant and raise your hands, beckoning the lesser spirits to aid you with the Call Lightning spell...
Your spell is ready.
>
You gesture at a battered steel coffer.
[Spell Hindrance for some ancient ceremonial battle armor is 6% with current Armor Use skill, d100= 2]
Your armor prevents the spell from working correctly.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>125 other cof
You utter a light chant and raise your hands, beckoning the lesser spirits to aid you with the Call Lightning spell...
Your spell is ready.
>
You gesture at a battered steel coffer.
[Spell Hindrance for some ancient ceremonial battle armor is 6% with current Armor Use skill, d100= 3]
Your armor prevents the spell from working correctly.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>
You notice the storm cloud begin to churn rapidly!
>125 other cof
You utter a light chant and raise your hands, beckoning the lesser spirits to aid you with the Call Lightning spell...
Your spell is ready.
>
You gesture at a battered steel coffer.
[Spell Hindrance for some ancient ceremonial battle armor is 6% with current Armor Use skill, d100= 4]
Your armor prevents the spell from working correctly.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>

That happens to me all the time, so I decided to keep track of it with psinet a while ago.

3. You have currently found the string "Spell Hindrance" 736 times.
4. You have currently found the string "You Channel" 8101 times.
5. You have currently found the string "You gesture" 4681 times.

Thats 12760 casts and it includes ones I cast in a sanctuary where hinderance doesn't apply.

12760 / 735 = 17.3605442

WTF

[AnticorRifling]

Your luck sucks.

How do I track that? I'll start doing it as well.

[Askip]

12760 / 735 = .0576

:D

[The Korean]

*ahem*

735 / 12760 = 0.0576

12760 / 735 = 17.36...

[TheRoseLady]

Man, you notice it when you are trying to get something dead for sure. I'm debating on going from 7x somewhat crit padded brig to 4x vhc padded cuir or even to some 4x (not sure what padding -doubles).

I sometimes wonder if the hinderance is worth it, but damn - it's nice to deflect and diffuse blows from critters.

Between having only a 70% chance to ward something and armor failure ....it's a wonder I'm not a gibbering idiot.

[Iriscience]

Got an assist and the host got Kyalia to check me out. So here's the official answer.


Medeni says, "All right, she checked your armor and it is fine."
>
Medeni says, "You are trained for it to be 7%."
>'So I'm just unlucky?
You ask, "So I'm just unlucky?"
>
Medeni says, "And it says 7 when you check it."
>frown
You frown.
>
Medeni says, "When you have low rolls you get that."
>
Medeni says, "But on this end everything looks good."
>
Medeni says, "So you are not broken in any way."
>'I guess I am just unlucky
You say, "I guess I am just unlucky."
>
Medeni says, "Or you hunt too much."
>
Medeni says, "Cast too much."
>chuck
You chuckle.
>
Medeni says, "Magic going to your head."
>
Medeni winks at you.
>'Maybe I'll go a month without hindering and it'll even out
You say, "Maybe I'll go a month without hindering and it'll even out."
>
Medeni says, "Always best to ask though."
>
Medeni nods to you.



Anticor was right.

[Banana Man]

Originally posted by The Korean
*ahem*

735 / 12760 = 0.0576

12760 / 735 = 17.36...

Just to reiterate:

Spell failure would be the fraction of failed spells divided by the fraction of cast spells. According to your numbers, you have a 5.76 failure rate.

Just for the mathematically uninclined.

[Banana Man]

Originally posted by Iriscience
Anticor was right.


About your luck being off? Haha, not in this case.

[Czeska]

I liked the way that assist was handled, as an aside.

Right now I have Czeska hunting banshees and pyros while wearing sonics at AsG 15, at 39 trains.
Her hindrance is, I think, 35%. But since it doesn't affect spellsong renewal, and I don't cast at these critters, it works nicely for me. Her RT is still 5.

[imported_Kranar]

Based on the numbers you posted there are:

12782 total casts.
736 failures.

Right off the bat this should indicate that the spell hinderance is below 10%, since 10% spell hinderance would be 1278 failures.

With 736 failures, your spell hinderance 5.76%. You're supposed to have 6% hinderance but as you stated, you made some casts inside of a sanctuary. Overall your percentage falls WELL within the expected value and should debunk any myth that GS's random number generator is whack.

[fallenSaint]

Originally posted by Kranar
Based on the numbers you posted there are:

12782 total casts.
736 failures.

Right off the bat this should indicate that the spell hinderance is below 10%, since 10% spell hinderance would be 1278 failures.

With 736 failures, your spell hinderance 5.76%. You're supposed to have 6% hinderance but as you stated, you made some casts inside of a sanctuary. Overall your percentage falls WELL within the expected value and should debunk any myth that GS's random number generator is whack.


Can we just ignore that and still claim GS to be Whack?
:whistle:

[Banana Man]

HAHAHA Kranar! My post was 8 hours before you. I WIN!

[imported_Kranar]

Indeed you do.

:oops: