Something Beef said on R&D: "One theory we have had is that the acid spit may be being cast at level 630 instead of level 63, or something along those lines."



Does this mean that NR above 315 would useful? That would be interesting (although maybe not very much so--depends on whether stacking NR that high is worth it to begin with). If they did do something like this, however, it couldhave come implications for future encounters.

Alternatively, maybe she just has -resist. They have the mechanic in the game now, no reason to think they wouldn't put it on a mob. Especially on an ability like Acid Spit, which they probably don't want people resisting like Flame Buffet.

Still, one ability which was cast at a totally off-the-wall level would also be an odd mechanic. Do other mobs cast things at levels not at all equal to their own? Other abilities for which resists are very important, such as Flame Buffet or the green dragon breaths, behave exactly as you'd except based on the mob's level.

This probably isn't very important anyway, since lots of guilds are getting her down without thinking about it very much, but it might be some kind of insight into what they do when they specifically don't want something to be avoidable with resists (and I don't have anything better to wonder about, since we haven't gotten her yet).

I'm sure some actual data about the resist rates would get to the bottom of it pretty quickly, although I'm not sure anyone's ever going to take the trouble to collect it.

I don't buy the whole "it uses the spell level, not the mob's level for resist checks" thing.

Shadow of Ebonroc is a level 24 spell. You don't resist 75% of the Shadows with 120 resistance, or anywhere near 75% of them which debunks that theory.

There must be some other control they can apply to partially-resistable spells.

If it's actually casting it at level 630, it'd most likely be a bug due to a typo, not a new game mechanic.


What's odd about the acid spit is if they wanted to make it unresistable, they could easily do so. But instead it's resisted a small amount a very small percentage of the time, way out of line with what you'd expect from any mob. I don't see why or how they would do it like that.

To fuck with us, clearly.

Yeah -- I agree that it's odd.

But it most definitely IS resistable, but only a little bit. Nothing else works like that, and my explanation is the only one that fits all the data I've seen in combat logs.

*shrug* I'm sure it was intended to be unresistable, since otherwise the huhuran fight would be only the 30% gimmick, which wouldn't be much fun at all.

I may sound stupid here, but I thought the highest things got in pretty much all blizzard games was level 255. Let me know if I'm wrong.

No way, Archaedas in Uldaman is level 500+, Cosmos says so.

Heh, 255 would be a holdover from the 8bit days (think the original Diablo). We don't store stuff in bytes anymore.

Hell, most of the stuff I'm writing in game development these days stores stuff in 64 bit values, that means it can go up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,614!

Actually, weren't the stat caps in D1 250?