Deathfield testing statistics

[muma]

i agree with odpol, the downgrade is ridiculous!

--levvirrnaxxum

[Yayaril]

I hope ultrablast got reduced too, maybe we can finally fight psionic mobs now.


Yayaril

[Galok Icewolf]

Hey... are you dumb, or just plain ignorant?

Deathfield does about as much as incindary cloud, except you get it at 20th level!!! What the hell are you whining about?

Do the same test with incindary cloud, and it'll end with nearly the exact same results. I don't understand why you are complaining. Oh Incindary cloud 2-3 circles before invokers isn't good enough.

[Salen]

Go cast Holy Word.

[Salen]

2 things

1 Psi's were uberpowerful in the beginning and you know it. You compare them to the invokers. If you are tough as invokers damagewise and have all the other things, do you think anyone will play anything an invoke over a squid?

2 They are no longer the new, cool, pet class and are going to be downgraded. That is the way the Mud has always been. That is the way the Mud will always be. Ask someone who played an Invoke after they were first brought in.

The Holy word comment was for 2 things.

If something works it will be dg'd.

Also, it is a cleric's only damage spell areawise. We get it 10 levels after squid gets field and you do the same damage. It is only useable on opposite align, and take 2 round lag. So your 'worthless' Field is equal to our best spell and 10 levels sooner.

[Shevarash]

Odpol:

Thanks for your testing/feedback, I'll confer with the other coders and decide if/how to change this.

Salen:

Give me a break.



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[Elseenas]

Some extra stats to throw fuel to the fire.

I can state with 95% confidence that the mean damage is between 207.71 and 279.33 assuming a student-t distribution.

The sample variance is 8862.33, making the std dev 94.

The median falls within the 95% confidence interval for the mean.

A basic histogram shows that most values fell between 318 and 370 (n=9) or between 164 and 216 (n=7). The least populace regions, by contrast were between 216 and 267 and between 370 and inf (n=1).


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Elseenas of No House Worth Mentioning

[Salen]

What did I say that wasn't true?

[rylan]

Salen, can't really compare Cleric's spell damage output to Psi's tho.. they are meant to do damage, while damage is a secondary (or even lower) thing for us.

[moritheil]

Rylan has a point. I don't see squids fhealing their tanks. Holy word is in need of some sort of tweaking, I agree, but I think this issue should be kept out of squid threads.

Go shevy.

PS - downgrading ultra will screw pc's over more than it affects the mobs. The mob will STILL be lvl59 and STILL carry a 6-pack of whoopass.

[Gort]

I thought the idea was to try to get psi mobs to only cast deathfield, not UB....


Toplack ( saving his one can of Whoopass for a special occasion ) Frostbear

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<B>I thought the idea was to try to get psi mobs to only cast deathfield, not UB....


Toplack ( saving his one can of Whoopass for a special occasion ) Frostbear</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

According to whom?

[Yayaril]

That would be nice Toplack.


Yayaril

[Magruk Eat Elf]

Bah....
Just have all Psi mobs mass-dominate.. then casually drain 1 pc at a time.. That would be a scary sight to walk in on..

[Galok Icewolf]

can't dominate a mob more then half yer level.

[Gort]

According to some previous posts about them, and about Voker mobs not typically casting inferno. At least that was what I'd gleaned from them as a "request" to the admins to implement.

I wasn't trying to insinuate the admins were looking to do that at all, just seemed to be the flow of what the players were askin for.

Sorry for the misunderstanding...

Toplack