Posts by Praise

I can confirm that the sin bow and necro scythe now work as expected (see screenshots for bow)!

That makes the statements in my previous post no longer valid.

I wasn't too sure whether Anet would actually make these fixes, so huge thanks to them. I am happy.

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• Fixed a bug that caused "Together as one!" to affect non-party allies. It will still affect the ranger pets of party members.

The new ranger elite still has the same range as before: not 'nearby' as the description suggests, but 'area' or slightly larger than area.

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Round shield dwarves 8a

Round shield tengu 3a

Eidolon r/b

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Update for min spear

For info, I tested all Mysticism non-attack skills for their values at 21 Mysticism using the new staff with mastery wrap. Values are below.

Nice to see that the new skill improves at 21 over 20 Mysticism (in case you are desperate to maintain that extra enchantment).

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So this is one of only two items in game that can have Fast Casting + 1 ?

Err no... any fast casting staff/focus that you can craft at weaponsmiths/collectors and upgrade with +1 mods...

It's the only shield, though, which makes it the third primary attribute that can be a shield (the others are strength and divine favor).

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I can't seem to see the dependency on their normal attributes from the first three screens. I'd have suspected a screen of the scythe with 12 sr, one with 12 sm and one with 12 in both... could you do that?

Or explain to me how I can see the effect just from your screens?

Maybe it's the damage increase by the weapons attribute that still triggers whilst the basic requirement of the weapon is dependent on another attribute.

Ok I edited my post to show 12/0, 0/12, 12/12 for the bow.

Yes I suspect what you say is true, that the requirement gets you the stated base damage, but not the damage multiplier from weapon mastery. On wiki it's called 'strike level' I think.

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Sure this wasn't just from the +8 armour you got from shield? Test it without 9 FC and with would be a better bet

Sure it wasn't, because as you can see with +8 armour from a q12 strength shield the damage is higher

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eidolon 25e interested in rb

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are we sure the chests are already "generated" upon entering the area? [...] The foes seem to be generated, otherwise the counter on a vanquish couldn't work (I mean the progress bar part). Thoughts?

I think the foes are generated but only 'on paper', i.e. they only start becoming graphical and active when you get into compass range. The exception may be certain boss patrol groups, I never looked into those (.e.g. hydra in desert, koren in drakkar). Whether chests are also generated upon area entry, I can't think of any way to test that, nor of any way to make use of the answer.

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what kind of interactive objects and other things serve as a trigger?

The only object apart from live foes that I have seen with a chest is the corpse of brave brent poltroon. He might be one of those weird objects that fall into multiple classes partially, including foe? There are other examples, like npcs being affected by "fall back" but not heal area... So I think foes are still the only object that have a chance to spawn locked chests.

I would say these are all either merch or hard to sell, but just wanted to check if any would be easy to sell?

All are oldschool gold:

Crude axe (canthan) q4 6-18 15ench - (max is q4 7-19)

Kamas q5 6-13 20<50

Kamas q5 6-13 15stance

Tall shield q5/13 -3hex 10pierce

Tower shield q8/12 30hp 10fire

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I am going to delete a lot of random non-max mods soon (any that are not 5% or 10% or 15% probably), please check if there is anything you might want. If you are looking for something specific you could also let me know and I'll try to keep an eye out. Thanks

The translation issue is not surprising, those four strongbox minis look like they were hastily done. As Invokeur said, the inventory items contain a typo. If you can somehow target the actual avatar walking around on the ground, that one is spelled correctly ('miniature'). Also, unlike most other minis, they can be interacted with in explorable areas.

I guess it's more of a bug than a glitch, but yea. It's a basic issue with the items themselves, and is not dependent on dedicated status.

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One guess as to whether it was useful (or any of the other drops today)

celestial staff 6a

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Thanks for trades!

1. Q7 Flamberge (+12% e) (NOTE: not max damage!) - retract sorry

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Update for min daggers

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To those who requested specific non-max mods, I'm still looking for them!

50e exalted

Have you tried running Extend Conditions (+Technobabble) instead of FD? It exploits the Dazed bug that interrupts spells upon application (no need for barrage). I've used it successfully in the past for example many vanquishes, Defend Droknar's Forge HM, etc. Combine with ymlad to cripple a whole group upon engagement, to ensure they stay close enough together to keep spreading conditions.

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The threshold I set before starting the experiments was 0.01. It's quite arbitrary, but I always feel that the standard 0.05 is a bit too loose. The null hypothesis was 'the Envoy Staff will give the expected probabilities'.

Let's work out the 10/10/10 case. Those experiments were done with only Nature's Renewal up, so observation of 0, 2, 4x HCT is possible but the case of 8x, even though it is calculated in the background, gets capped to 4x. So I assumed that it was allowed to group them together: total expected probability of 4+8x = 2.7 + 0.1 = 2.8%. The 76 observations will include both 4x and 8x since they are indistinguishable.

The chi-squared value was calculated by putting the counts for each column separately into: [(observed-expected)^2] / expected  and then summing. This value was then used to calculate the right-tailed P with the excel formula =CHISQ.DIST.RT().

There are 3 different types of data effectively (since 4 and 8x are indistinguishable in the observations), so 2 degrees of freedom.

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The random function in Computer Science isn't really random, so I don't think that khi squared is the way to go here but anyway ~~

That's a very good point I hadn't thought about. Do you know if there are any standard tests or corrections we can use instead?

Many thanks for your help.

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I've been doing some research on how spell casting times are calculated by the game. I've gathered quite a lot of data, which I'm dumping here regardless of whether it is interesting to anyone. To some, all of the below will be stating the obvious. If you've never really thought about how spell casting times are modified by different effects, there might be one or two interesting pieces of information here.

The original goal was to observe an Envoy Staff hitting all three possible "halves casting time of spells" (HCT) effects at the same time. Envoy Staffs (the gold versions only) are unique post-nerf staffs because they give an inherent 10% HCT rather than 20% HSR:

Spiked targe 44/+1 - 20e

Amber aegis +1/30 - 80e

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