EPB

[Xcalibur]

Working? Will it be better and better for players? for hunting?

Someone sent me that, i find it interesting

[Valley]
You notice a manticore, a footpath and a wandering path.
Obvious paths: north, west, northwest
>stance offensive
You are now in an offensive stance.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
The manticore evades your attack!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
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Annewyn just arrived.
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Annewyn just went west.
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A manticore swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +122 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +10 + d100 roll: +96 = +182
... and hits for 3 points of damage!
Hit glances off your hip.
>att man
...wait 1 seconds.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
AS: +137 vs DS: +53 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +39 = +158
... and hit for 29 points of damage!
Smooth slash to the manticore's hip!
Nice crunching sound.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>att man
A manticore swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +112 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +10 + d100 roll: +67 = +143
... and hits for 2 points of damage!
Blow glances off your shoulder.
>
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
The manticore evades your attack!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>att man
...wait 1 seconds.
>att man
...wait 1 seconds.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
The manticore evades your attack!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>
A manticore swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +112 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +10 + d100 roll: +91 = +167
... and hits for 3 points of damage!
Thumped your chest.
>att man
...wait 1 seconds.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
The manticore evades your attack!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>att man
...wait 1 seconds.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
AS: +137 vs DS: +66 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +26 = +132
... and hit for 11 points of damage!
Broken finger on the manticore's right hand!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>
A manticore claws at you!
AS: +102 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +41 = +126
... and hits for 5 points of damage!
Weak slash to your right arm.
That doesn't even sting.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
The manticore evades your attack!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>
A cave worm just slithered in.
>
A manticore swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +112 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +10 + d100 roll: +66 = +142
... and hits for 2 points of damage!
Blow nicks your left hand.
>att worm
You swing a falchion at a cave worm!
AS: +137 vs DS: +65 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +97 = +201
... and hit for 35 points of damage!
Deft swing strikes the cave worm's neck.
Maybe not fatal but it's sure distracting.
The cave worm is stunned!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>att worm
...wait 1 seconds.
>att worm
You swing a falchion at a cave worm!
AS: +137 vs DS: +44 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +74 = +199
... and hit for 35 points of damage!
Smooth slash to the cave worm's hip!
Nice crunching sound.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>
A manticore claws at you!
AS: +102 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +14 = +99
A clean miss.
>att worm
...wait 1 seconds.
>att worm
You swing a falchion at a cave worm!
AS: +137 vs DS: +43 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +83 = +209
... and hit for 37 points of damage!
Grazing blow to the stomach.
The cave worm is sliced neatly in two.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>
A manticore claws at you!
AS: +102 vs DS: +46 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +87 = +172
... and hits for 24 points of damage!
Blow to your back cracks several vertebrae.
>sear worm
You search the cave worm.
It had nothing of interest.
A cave worm decays into compost.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
AS: +127 vs DS: +50 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +89 = +201
... and hit for 48 points of damage!
Weapon arm mangled horribly.
The manticore is stunned!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>att man
...wait 1 seconds.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
The manticore evades your attack!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>
A manticore stirs groggily.
>att man
You swing a falchion at a manticore!
AS: +127 vs DS: +25 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +49 = +186
... and hit for 38 points of damage!
Blow to back cracks several vertebrae.
The manticore falls to the ground and dies.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
>sear man
...wait 1 seconds.
>stance defensive
You are now in a defensive stance.

[Betheny]

wtf is EPB?

[Xcalibur]

evade parry block, wtf is wtf?

heh it's ebp, not epb, but who cares, the 3 are still right

[Edited on 30-11-03 by Xcalibur]

[Kitsun]

When I saw the thread I thought maybe Ebon Breast Plate...then Evade Proc'ing, hell if I know.

[Skirmisher]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one confused.

[Xcalibur]

Hahahha damn, yet an other confusing stuff brought by me

REPLACE EPB by EBP, please :)

[Latrinsorm]

EBP is great. So some creatures can dodge good (which I'm guessing was the point of that log). Big deal. I block all kinds of shit with 3x shield use and a greatshield. Plus I'm dodging bolt spells. EBP is great.

[Jolena]

I personally love EBP.. it is more realistic to me that some creatures would have the ability to dodge spells and attacks more efficiently then others and that our training in certain skills would allow us to evade their attacks and spells. Personally my rogue evades, parries, and blocks quite well against creatures anywhere from 5-10 levels above me and it's great.

[StrayRogue]

You know the above log is done by someone alot younger than the mants, retard? Evading critters younger than you is a piece of cake, as are older critters evading younger PCs. Again, more evidence you are playing.

[StrayRogue]

Yeah this sucks. I mean its so shit I can't get caught and killed in offensive no more....

A thrak tries to bite you!
You evade the attack!

You remove a wooden arrow from in your elk hide quiver.
>stance off
You are now in an offensive stance.
You nock a wooden arrow in your black willow bow.
You fire a wooden arrow at a thrak!
AS: +154 vs DS: +34 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +3 = +148
... and hit for 22 points of damage!
Minor puncture to the back.
Lacking the force and angle to lodge in a thrak, the wooden arrow simply falls.
Roundtime: 6 sec.

A thrak tries to bite you!
You evade the attack!

A thrak tries to bite you!
You evade the attack!

You nock a wooden arrow in your black willow bow.
You fire a wooden arrow at a thrak!
AS: +154 vs DS: +32 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +43 = +190
... and hit for 45 points of damage!
Well aimed shot, punctures calf!
The thrak is stunned!
The wooden arrow sticks in a thrak's right leg!
Roundtime: 6 sec.

[Overlord]

Dimmu EBPs plenty and so does my little sorc with his runestaff, deflecting fire with a staff must look cool lol

[Artha]

I <3 ebp. As a bow user, I've noticed even critters older than me don't ebp the arrows too often. EBP has saved my ass a bunch of times when I got caught out of hiding and in offensive.

[Atlanteax]

EBP has proven to be one of the better SIMU implementations to enchance the Gemstone Experience.

I was hedging my opinion till it was Live, and even though I do get annoyed at times if a critter blocks/parries me a few times in a row, it still has significantly improved the life expectancy of PCs across the board.

I'm definately giving it a two-thumbs-up.

~ Atlanteax, Turamzzyrian

[Betheny]

I don't understand why a creature doesn't evade on a 302 bolts though.

[Overlord]

Or any Cs based spell you might ask. Well its not a physical attack where as all elementals and weapons, are. All be it smite/bane or any of the sorc spells.

[Betheny]

Yeah, but the plasma bolt effect of 302 is a physical part of the spell, don't you think? :?:

[Latrinsorm]

Well.. I'd think of it like this:

I'm a cleric, I warded this sucker with my l33t skills, now my deity takes over. And deities can't be EBP'd. That's the best way I can figger out to explain it.

The obvious answer should be anything that has a physical manifestation should be able to be EBP'd with some degree of success. But I don't think they'll do that.

[Caiylania]

I love it, also, I prefer : You block the attack with your shield! than a critter just 'missing me'

In a real fight you block more blows than get missed. Its great.