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Last Updated: March 19, 2003



Since I came back to the game in December, I have been intrigued more than ever with the “stats” of the game – the mechanics behind it. This is partially because I write for a pen and paper game company and partially because I have a belief that when I die in RvR I want it to be because it is my problem, not because someone was more knowledgeable. Since then, I’ve become more knowledgeable, just not better in RvR.



Any additions, comments - please email me jcollura@wzmd.net with Incomplete Guide in the Subject.



One huge caveat – This is based mostly on Grab Bag Info. When a particular Grab Bag is referenced, a date is used. This shows you how “current” the info is. The Grab Bag was searched back to June of last year.



Index:


I. Base Stats or Attributes


Strength

Constitution

Dexterity

Quickness

Piety

Charisma



II. Hit Points/Power/Endurance



Hits

Power

Endurance



III. Bonuses/Resists



IV. Skill Points



Acuity

Armor

Attack Speed

Bolts

Block/Shield

Concentration

Crit Chance

Damage

Debuffs

Durability

Evade

Experience

Focus Staves

Jewelry

Parry

Pets

Range Damage

Taunts

To Hit

Staves

Weapon Speed





I. Base Stats or Attributes


a. Strength is capped at 300. It is unknown whether other stats are capped at 300. With buffs and bonuses, you do not achieve anything "extra" for bonuses above 300.



b. Buffs are capped to 50 (equal to your level) for a baseline buff and 75 (equal to you level times 1.5) for a specline buff at level 50. Together your base stat can be buffed 125 points maximum at level 50.



c. Spellcrafting/item (note hereinafter item and spellcrafting bonuses are referred to as spellcrafting) bonuses are capped to 75 to base stats at level 50 (Take Level x 1.5 for current cap).



d. Strength

1. Modifies the amount you can carry. This is a straight weight to strength ratio. I.e. your strength is 225, you can carry 225.

2. Modifies the amount of melee damage you do with slashing/crushing weapons.

3. 50% modifier to thrusting weapons.



e. Constitution

1. Modifies the amount of hit points you receive.



f. Dexterity

1. Modifies your chance to hit in melee.

2. Modifies your casting speed in magic.

3. From a dex of 50 to a dex of 250, the formula lets you cast 1% faster for each ten points. From a dex of 250 to the maximum possible (which as you know depends on your starting total), your speed increases 1% for every twenty points. The minimum casting speed for any spell is 2 seconds – Grab Bag 6/28/02 Testing shows minimum casting speed is 1.5 seconds.

4. Dex affects cast time for everyone. Minimum cast time is 2 seconds, so if you're already hitting that mark you won't see a difference. The difference between 75 Dex and 178 Dex looks like about a 15% reduction, so on a 3 second spell your cast time should have shaved off half a second." – Grab Bag 1/24/03

5. Modifies your chance to block with a shield and chance to parry.

6. Modifies 50% of the damage with thrusting weapons.

7. Modifies 100% of the damage with staves or bows.

8. Modifies 50% your chance to Evade.



g. Quickness

1. Modifies your attack speed.

2. Attack speed is similar to casting speed based on Dex. From a Qui of 50 to a Qui of 250, the formula lets you cast 1% faster for each ten points. From a Qui of 250 to the maximum possible (which as you know depends on your starting total), your speed increases 1% for every twenty points. The minimum speed for any attack is 1.5 seconds **Rumor

3. Modifies 50% your chance to Evade.

4. Weapon Speed Formula: Actual_Weapon_Delay = (1-(QUI-60)/400) * SPD * (1 - Haste%)



h. Piety

1. Modifies your Power pool (in Midgard, all non-skald casters).

2. Modifies your magical damage (in Midgard, all non-skald casters).

3. For Direct Damage (including Area of Effect (AOE) and Point Blank Area of Effect (PBAOE) spells[/b]Every +10 PIE that is greater then 50 but less then or equal to 250 will grant the caster to a 3% increase in damage done. Also, every +20 PIE that is greater then 250 will give you an additional 3% increase in damage done.

4. For Damage over Time (DoT) spellsEvery +10 PIE that is greater then 50 but less then or equal to 250 will grant the caster to a +1 Damage increase in per tick. Also, every +20 PIE that is greater then 250 will give you an additional +1 Damage increase in per tick.



i. Charisma

1. Modifies your Power pool (Skald only)

2. Modifies your magical damage (Skald only)



II. Hit Points/Power/Endurance


a. Hit Points

1. Variable depending upon your class type (Viking, Mystic, Seer, Rogue)

2. Increases as Constitution increases.

3. Through spellcrafting may increase +200 at 50 (For current, take Level times 4).

4. The Toughness Realm Ability increases your base hit points by 3% per level of the ability. This increase is before adding any spellcraft bonus hit points. I.e. I have 100 hit points and +10 through spellcraft for 110 hits. With Toughness I I have 113 hits (100+3%(or 3) +10). – Grab Bag 2/21/03

5. Hit points are determined first by your class. There are roughly three base hit point amounts – tank, caster, and hybrid. (Rogues are considered hybrids as far as hit point totals go.) Your base number of hit points, and the base number of hit points you get each time you level, are therefore determined by your class. Next, your constitution is taken into account. This number is your CON without buffs, items, or realm abilities. This number DOES include any “bonus” points you may have put in while you were rolling up your character.

The next things to be taken into account are any CON buffs you may have, and +CON items. Then realm abilities affecting CON or Health.

Finally, +HP items are added on to the figure for the grand total. The exact formula is too complex to go into here, but that’s the gist of it. CON is the stat to put bonus points into, if having more hit points matters to you. – Grab Bag 11/1/02



b. Power

1. Increases as Piety increases.

2. Through spellcrafting may increase by +26.



c. Endurance

1. Cannot be raised through spellcrafting.



III. Bonuses/Resists


1. Bonuses are a straight percentile decrease to damage of a particular type. Each point of a bonus reflects a percentage. I.e. a +10 in a bonus is a 10% decrease in damage.

2. Bonuses can be increased by spellcrafting to a maximum of +26 at level 50. Take level divide by two add one.

3. Racial bonuses are cumulative with spellcrafting bonuses up to +5

4. A buff/spell can increase the bonus up to +24 (Level divide by two subtract one) at 50. With Mastery of the Arcane, a resist can be buffed higher than cap. The higher level spell overwrites (i.e. a Cold bonus from a Shaman that is +24 will overwrite a skalds chant that is + .

5. There is no cap. – Grab Bag 1/31/03

6. How spell resists work: "Spells have a factor of (spell level / 2) added to their chance to hit. (Spell level defined as the level the spell is awarded, chance to hit defined as the chance of avoiding the "Your target resists the spell!" message.) Subtracted from the modified to-hit chance is the target's (level / 2). So a L50 caster casting a L30 spell at a L50 monster or player, they have a base chance of 85% to hit, plus 15%, minus 25% for a net chance to hit of 75%. If the chance to hit goes over 100% damage or duration is increased, and if it goes below 55%, you still have a 55% chance to hit but your damage or duration is penalized. If the chance to hit goes below 0, you cannot hit at all. Once the spell hits, damage and duration are further modified by resistances.

"In general, RvR is between opponents within 1 quanta of each other (in the frontiers for example, L45-50), and the spells cast are L40+. This results in a 2.5-5% modifier, which is somewhat lost in the noise of the bonuses from Int/Acuity, realm abilities, and modifiers from resistances. For characters using spells around L30, they will see a more significant reduction however, and this factor is part of it” – Grab Bag 1/17/03

7. For a breakdown of resists see www.camelot-seer.com/hand...esistances



IV. Skill Points


1. Through Spellcrafting Skill Points can be increased +11 (which is the cap at 50). For current level take character level divided by five plus one rounded down.

2. With each new Realm Rank title you receive a +1 bonus to your skills.

3. The realm rank bonus is always in addition to the Spellcrafting Skill Points and is not capped. – Grab Bag 1/24/03

4. Skill Points through training and lower skill points with bonuses are equivalent in every respect, except one – the higher training might allow access to better styles, spells, etc. If you have two level 50 infiltrators and one trains to 50 in stealth, but the other trains to 38 and takes 12 stealth stat bonuses from spellcrafted gear, they are equally hard to detect. – Grab Bag 12/13/02

5. Speccing increases base Damage (see Damage in Misc). This formula doesn’t take styles into account at all (as in, most people only spec up to the style they like best and then stop), it’s simple math that determines the damage you will do.

If you have NO trains in your weapon at all, each swing may do 25% to 125% of X in damage. X is equal to the result of a complex formula, taking into account weapon quality, condition, bonuses, your strength or dex, the opponent’s armor, and some other things.

If you have trained up to 2/3 of your level in your weapon, each swing may do 75% to 125% of X.

If you are trained up to your level, each swing may do 100% to 150% of X.

The optimum level as far as the game is concerned is 2/3 your level. – Grab Bag 8/30/02



IV. Misc.



Acuity


1. Acuity works on “robed” casters, not armored (i.e. Healer) casters. Acuity checks to see if you are a “list” caster (you’re a list caster if your spell list is nicely organized; if your list is a bit of a muddle you’re not a list caster, and more on that in a moment), and if so boosts your casting stat. Mainly this is intelligence, but it’s piety for the Spiritmaster and Runemaster. But it’s a class check, not a stat check, that determines if you can use the buff. – Grab Bag 8/2/02



Armor

1. Chance of being hit in a particular area - 40% Torso, 25% legs, 15% arms, 10% head, 5% hands, 5% feet.- Grab Bag 3/7/03

2. AF Formula: The AF of your target is: Effective AF = Listed AF * Quality * (1 + (absorb * quality)) For total AF you multiply the AF formulae results by 6.(assuming all pieces are same AF and quality)



Attack Speed


1. With a haste buff, you can swing a heavy, high damage weapon at the same speed as a lighter, lower damage weapon, so it makes you more powerful. – Grab Bag 2/14/03



Bolts


1. There is no stat that can be boosted to affect miss ratio with bolts. (not talking about the in-combat penalty that a bolt takes). The to-hit chance is based strictly on your level vs. the level of the target.

2. The damage that you do is based on a number of factors, including but by NO means limited to your spec level vs. the level of the target, and the armor absorption rating of your target’s gear –Grab Bag 10/25/72



Block/Shield


1. Quality does not affect the chance to block at this time. – Grab Bag 3/7/03

2. Condition and enchantment increases the chance to block – Grab Bag 2/27/03

3. There is currently no hard cap on chance to block – Grab Bag 2/27/03 and 8/16/02

4. Dual Wielders (enemy) decrease the chance to block – Grab Bag 10/18/02

5. Block formula: Shield = base 5% + .5% per spec point. Then modified by dex (.1% per point of dex above 60 and below 300?). Further modified by condition, bonus and shield level



Buffing



1. Baseline buffs vary from 75% of delve to 125% of delve based on your augmentation spec relative to the level of the buff. At 2/3 the level of the buff you get 125% of the delve value. Basically this means that you if you can get your Augmentation up to ~33 or 34 effective, you can cap all of your baseline buffs. Moller has jewelry that he puts on while buffing to get myself +11 Aug, for 31 effective aug, which gets me +5 on my str/dex/con buffs. (from Moller Healer TL)

2. Buffing for over the hardcap (i.e. buffing a baseline via a realm ability for 55 when the hardcap is 50) provide an additional bonus nor does it bank the additional amount so when hit with a debuff. Simply the hardcap eliminates any buffing above the cap. – Grab Bag 2/21/03





Concentration


1. You get a set amount each time you level; it’s not based on any stat or skill. – Grab Bag 8/23/02



Crit Chance


1. PVE, a critical hit can be for anything between 10 and 100% of your base damage. – Grab Bag 1/24/03

2. In PVP, a critical hit can be for anything between 10 and 50%.- Grab Bag 1/24/03

3. Berserkers who are, well, berserking, hit for 10 to 100% on a critical in PVP (among other benefits granted through that skill). – Grab Bag 1/24/03

4. All melee attacks have a chance to critical, and all direct damage spell attacks (including bolts) by a “robe” or “list” caster (a caster whose spell book is organized into drop down menus) have a chance to critical. – Grab Bag 10/25/02

5. Crit DoTs and Heals have a 0% chance before Realm Abilities – Grab Bag 10/25/02

6. Crit Shot with Bows – see rothwellhome.org/guides/archery.htm



Crowd Control Duration



1. Determination lowers CC duration as follows. Final_Duration = (Duration * (1-resists)) * (1- determination)

Example: 70 second mez cast on a level 50 Hero with 32% body resist and Determination 3.

Duration = (70s * (1-0.32)) * (1-0.45) Duration = (70s * 0.6 * (0.55) Duration = 47.6*0.55 Duration = 26.2 seconds (From Moller Healer TL)



Damage


1. The amount of damage done by the weapon is determined by your weapon spec. As we’ve all discussed before, raising your spec helps you to do more damage in two different ways. First, it raises the damage ceiling, meaning the maximum amount of damage a single swing can do. Second, it lowers your variance, meaning the distance between the minimum damage you can do and the maximum damage you can do, by bringing up the minimum damage limit. – Grab Bag 1/10/03

2. Everyone has a base damage figure with any given weapon type, involving your class and level (among other factors). Being able to specialize in a weapon type means you will do your base damage times a percentage factor. (Remember, however, that the base damage number is also affected by what it was that you’re attacking – your target’s armor and damage types will also affect the damage.) The formula numbers given in August are all too low these days – part of the melee improvements a few patches ago was to raise those percentages significantly across the board. – Grab Bag 1/10/03

3. This formula doesn’t take styles into account at all (as in, most people only spec up to the style they like best and then stop), it’s simple math that determines the damage you will do. If you have NO trains in your weapon at all, each swing may do 25% to 125% of X in damage. X is equal to the result of a complex formula, taking into account weapon quality, condition, bonuses, your strength or dex, the opponent’s armor, and some other things. If you have trained up to 2/3 of your level in your weapon, each swing may do 75% to 125% of X.

If you are trained up to your level, each swing may do 100% to 150% of X. The optimum level as far as the game is concerned is 2/3 your level. – Grab Bag 8/30/02

4. Damage Formula: The Damage Formula is: Damage = WeapDmg (which is a possibly capped weapon DPS) * Delay * Quality * Condition * (WeapSkill / Target's AF)



Debuffs


1. As for the mez thing. They do not break mez in RvR. They do break mez in PvE. The only debuff that breaks mez in RvR is the atk-spd one, and that's because it's bugged – Seladin, SM TL 3/8/03

2. On an unbuffed target, debuffs do roughly 60% of their Delve'd value. – Seladin SM TL 3/8/03



Durability


1. Durability does not affect the combat formulas. Durability only affects repair issues. If the item has a high durability it can be repaired to full for less money. As it loses durability, it costs more to make repairs, and then it becomes impossible to fully repair the item. Eventually (when durability hits zero) you can no longer make repairs at all. – Grab Bag 12/27/02

2. Durability points are converted to condition points by a ratio formula. You may lose a percentage point of durability to our system rounding up if you happen to hit it at the wrong moment, but that is the only exception. You basically need to keep your stuff at 90% condition or better, as there is a noticeable difference in the damage you take or give at that point. It’s an exponential drop – you won’t notice much of a difference anywhere in the 90s, but you’ll really feel it as you go below that point. – Grab Bag 8/30/02



Evade


1. Evade formula includes such elements as your level, your target's level, your level of evade, your QUI, your DEX, your buffs to QUI and DEX, the number of people attacking you, your target's weapon level, your target's spec in the weapon he is wielding, the kind of attack (DW, range, etc), attack radius, angle of attack, the style you used most recently, target's offensive RA, debuffs, and a few others. (The type of weapon – large, 1H, etc – doesn’t matter.) So it's entirely situational. – Grab Bag 12/13/02

2. Base chance to evade at Evade 7 is 35% (5% per level). Dodger 5 (3% per level) adds another 15%. But that's just a BASE. Those percentages can be modified by all of the above. The cap is 50% - but after your base is modified, you might not be at 50. – Grab Bag 12/13/02

3. Evade is not a skill, and it works very differently from parry and block. Primarily, the effectiveness of evade is related to your level of evade (and of course, your level versus the level of your target). There are many minor factors, of course, but that is the big one. The stats that affect evade are dex and qui in equal proportions, just not in as large a proportion as they are in parry or block. – Grab Bag 10/25/02

4. Evade is not affected by a dual wielder (enemy). – Grab Bag 10/18/02



Experience


1. See masterofdragons.com/camelot/xp.htm



Focus Staves


1. How they are supposed to work: 80% cost at ( focus >= spell level ), 90% cost at ( focus = 3/4 spell level ),

100% cost at ( focus = 1/2 spell level ), 110% cost at ( focus = 1/4 spell level ), 120% cost with no focus at all in the appropriate skill.

2. Supposedly bugged.



Healing



1. Baseline healing spells vary based on your effective Mend spec compared to the level of the spell.

2. Specline healing spells will always land for 125% of the delve value.

3. Spread heals function as follows: Spread heals create a "pool" of hit points equal to: Delve * 1.25 (spec bonus) * # in group.

The spread heal then distributes this pool to the group. There is a cap of Delve*1.25*2 for the amount of healing one person can receive from spread heal.

(All Info from Moller Healer TL)



Jewelry


1. Condition on jewelry– at or below 70% you stop getting stat increases or specific benefits.

2. Bonus – (the bonus field, I should say) at this time, nothing.

3. Quality – at this time, nothing, with one exception: all items including jewelry with a quality of 99, or 100 have extra “hidden” durability past the displayed 100, and thus those items last longer than items of lower quality –Grab Bag 10/25/02





Parry


1. Dual Wielders (enemy) decrease the chance to Parry – Grab Bag 10/18/02

2. There is no hard cap on ability to Parry. – Grab Bag 8/13/02

3. Your chances of doing so are best when you are solo, trying to block or parry a style from someone who is also solo. The chances of doing so decrease with grouped, simultaneous attackers. – Grab Bag 7/19/02



Pets


1. At this time, a pet’s base casting ability is only modified by the level of the pet. (The necro being the exception, of course.) I should say this is something we are keeping an eye on, and looking at controlled test results for. – Grab Bag 12/20/02

2. Pet experience - In a group, the pet gets experience based strictly on the total damage the pet does to the target. The pet is NOT treated as another group member (group member experience is total exp divided by number of players in the group modified by player level vs. the levels of the other group members). It’s not much, unless you’re using the pet as the main tank for some reason, and even then it would not even be equal to a character’s share. – Grab Bag 12/20/02

3. Pet experience is capped at 50%. There are three exceptions to the 50% cap – enchanters, spiritmasters, and cabalists all have their pet’s exp share capped at 25%. The necro is his own exception, being that his pet is an extension of him.

Remember, that’s “up to X%” – the more damage the pet’s owner does directly, the less exp the pet can earn. And of course, these percentages only apply if the pet owner is soloing. – Grab Bag 12/6/02

4. Pet armor/weapons - The armor shows what sort of damage the pet’s armor is vulnerable to. If a pet is wearing "plate" armor, then the pet is susceptible to crush damage, as if it were wearing plate armor... but it's not actually WEARING the armor. It is not benefiting from the absorption or armor factor. By the way, a pet’s displayed weapon works the same way – a pet swinging a hammer isn’t actually holding the hammer, but will get a bonus against plate armor. – Grab Bag 2/21/02



Proc (Process)



1. No stats increase the chance to Proc. – Grab Bag 1/24/03

2. Base chance to Proc is 10%

3. Quality of tincture has no effect on increases the chance to Proc – Grab Bag 1/24/03



Range Damage


1. Range is not a modifier for base arrow damage. – Grab Bag 11/1/02



Realm Points.



1. How They are Calculated - First, in order to get points from a kill someone else in your group makes, you need to be in range. Recently, we made that range huge, so that the support classes could get more of the action. Next, the actual split. The points are split among all the people who did damage to the victim, and the groupmates of that person. Your share is modified by a ratio of your level to the level of the highest level person. You are rewarded by your perceived contribution, measured by your level. Let’s say you’re level 40, and you’re grouped with three other level forty players and a level 45 healer. That level 45 healer is considered the highest level person in the formula, even if he didn’t do any actual damage to the victim. The game considers that healer to be integral to the success of the group. The higher your relative level in the group, the more realm points you get. People outside your group are calculated in as well – if a level 50 ungrouped person also attacked the victim, then the ratio in the formula awards you points as you relate to the level 50. If the person not in your group is in his own group, then the points are split between the two groups. –Grab Bag 9/20/02

2. Realm Rank Chart – See www.grailbrotherhood.info/realmrank.htm



Regeneration spells (endurance, power, health)



1. No, there is no cap to any regen spells. The effects of a buff (Purity) and a Realm Ability (Serenity) are cumulative. – Grab Bag 1/17/03 and 1/24/03 and 10/11/02 and 8/30/02 (Note: Most answered question in Grab Bag).

2. Higher level regen spells/buffs overwrite. – Grab Bag 1/17/03



Taunts


1. Taunts do not give a bonus to AF or chance to hit. Taunts move you up on a monster’s hate list out of proportion to the amount of damage that you’ve done.



To Hit


1. To-Hit modifiers on styles do not any effect on whether your opponent successfully Evades, Blocks, or Parries. – Grab Bag 2/27/03

2. The correct Order of Resolution in combat is Evade, Parry, Block (Shield), Guard, Hit/Miss, and then Bladeturn. – Grab Bag 2/27/03



Staves


1. The enchantment/quality/condition of a staff does not effect spellcasting. – Grab Bag 2/27/03



Weapon Speed


1. Base speed of the weapon, quickness, and haste buffs. The end result can be reduced by haste debuffs. Dex, weapon level, quality, and bonus don't enter into it. – Grab Bag 1/17/03

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