Thanks Sbart.

hello everybody. does anybody know how pet focus crystal "soul steal paws %5" works. i think it is not soul drain? does increase the total SE from duels %5 or what?

Idézet: baggybag - 2011.03.30. 15:21:22

Exactly. But it works in the DG as well, not only in duels.

thanks quint

I logged in today and there was a header in red highlights stating "Congratulations, I had won a contest...", something like approximately 300,000SE, then click details (hyperlinked). I went to the Previous Battles page and the header was gone. Is this a legit contest? Did I miss out?

Thank you,
Lokithor

No you did not, it was an April fools day joke. Wish it was true though

Is the "April's fool!" pet special in any way when trained? or is it just as any other pet of its level?

Ok, thanks stekkos.

Pretty cruel joke, I might add.

Deadstar, its just a normal pet. Only "special" is that you get to beat other players with a fool

Idézet: quint - 2010.12.24. 09:22:14
If the AA skill is anything like the pet skill resistance it does not seem to affect the spell effects: I just increased my pet's resistance skill to 4, and got a -10 Strength hit by a "will-o'-the-wisp" spell, so no reduction there.

To 4, that's 1.2% increase in resistance.

So if it deals -10 strength normally, 10-(10*0.012) = 9.88 which rounds to 10 anyway.

Also, the description of the spell is not always what you deal/receive. I have a spell that says it deals -5 crit hit and -5 attack, but it actually deals around -19 crit hit and -19 attack. I think it gets higher along with your thaumaturgy attribute.

So the resistance is a percentage? Argh! I so love those full and covering explanations.

Thought "your resistance increases by this skill multiplied by 0,3." meant that a skill of 4 would reduce whatever it affected by 1.2, so it would be 10-1.2=8.8 rounded to 9.

I guess if it's a percentage it makes the resistance skill pretty useless, those effects are low anyway, so 1-2% is not going to make any difference.

Idézet: MartinBV - 2011.04.18. 07:32:25

I have to agree that this (yet) another one of those "far to little information available in game" situations.

As to the usefulness of resistance, I believe it is designed to compensate for the increase in secondary effects by Thaumaturgy, not to remove the secondary effect completely. If this is the case, you would probably need a large amount of Resistance to see a large decrease, in the same way that you need a lot of Thaumaturgy to see a large increase.

Have in mind there are higher level items increasing your resistance. Like magic absorption, if you take only an items total MA it is very low. But combining relics, pets, items, etc, you end up with high amount. I get 7% resistance from items +13 from pets. So total 20%, not so negligible

Sbart is also right. Like absorption will never remove magic damage completely, resistance will only reduce the effects. Have in mind though that a high IQ is always the best counter for both (less spell damage, 0 effects and no critical spell hit)

Idézet: stekkos - 2011.04.18. 14:14:44

Does IQ effect Critical spell hit?

Not directly. But if your opponents spell fails due to your high IQ, he has 0 chance of scoring a critical hit

Idézet: stekkos - 2011.04.18. 16:36:37

So you mean that if I barley hit, i.e. does low damage, I cannot crit? I thought a hit was a hit and all hits could crit.

I will just add this to the growing list of things in the game that the game doesn´t tell you.

It's just guesswork but if P1 has IQ 100 and P2 has IQ 75

Chance for full spell damage on P2 = 75%
Chance for full spell damage on P1 = 25%

Crit spell P1 = 25
Crit spell P2 = 75

Chance for crit spell on P2 = 75% of 0% = 0%
Chance for crit spell on P1 = 25% of 50% = 12.5%

So if P2 increased his IQ, his critical hit would raise proportionately.
Even though P2 barely hits fully, he can critical and deal high damage 12.5% of the time.

Sbart, a critical spell hit AND the extra effects of a spell require that your spell hits fully (i.e. it does not say about your opponent "...he takes ONLY X damage...") If you do hit fully the the effects apply ALWAYS, but the critical spell might still fail since it is also affected by the difference of your skills.

As Phalanxii showed, having lower IQ does not mean you will fail every time, just lowers your chances.

But critical spell hit chance is your skill - opponents skill. So if you have less or equal than your opponent you NEVER hit critically, even if you hit fully with your spell.

Idézet: stekkos - 2011.04.19. 10:49:11

I understand, but I would say that the description of Critical spell is not entirely correct.
"You receive a chance to make critical spell damage to your opponent in magical combat. The amount of this percentage chance is the difference between your skill and his."

This does not mention anything about only being able to Critically hit when you do a "partial hit". Also, it does not say anything how it interacts with +% Critical magic damage. I could assume that the +% Critical magic damage is added to my skill, and then the chance of critically hit with a spell is actually:
((Critical spell skill)+(+% Critical magic damage from items))-((Opponents Critical spell skill)+(+% Critical magic damage from items))
with any negative number meaning that my opponents spell can critically hit.


And as usual I will just add this to the big pile of things that the game does not tell you when playing it. And that the developers are so lazy that they cannot even name things the same, even if they are the same thing. Some examples:
Stun and Paralyzation; Called Paralyzation on items and Stun in quests
Quests and Missions; Called Quests most of the time, but Missions in the Lady Avariels Medallions
Critical spell and Critical magic damage