Base potency 100
I’ve heard a lot of smart players suggest potency starts at 100. But that’s inconsistent with anecdotal experience and with abilities or modifiers based on potency. Does anyone have documentation tha...
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This is not correct.
There are not 2 checks. There is one check to resist (except in cases where a debuff cannot be resisted or in cases where the defender is immune to that debuff, and in those cases there is no check at all).
The ONE check to resist has a percent chance to resist of (Defender's TEN minus Attacker's POT) or 15, whichever is larger.
- If my TEN is 100 and the attacker's POT is 122, then my chance to resist is 15%.
- If my TEN is 100 and attacker's POT is 101, then my chance to resist is 15%
- If my TEN is 100 and attacker's POT is 90, then my chance to resist is 15%.
- If my TEN is 100 and attacker's POT is 84, then my chance to resist is 16%
- If my TEN is 100 and attacker's POT is 75, then my chance to resist is 25%.
And so on. But it's always only one check.
Chance to resist is not the end of the story though. It's then checked against the random number generated to see if that instance lands or not based on it's chance to land. The result has to be a yes or no. As I have said below the "check" is not the same as a second calculation, it was a way to explain what might be coded as that was the OPs request. The poor performance of things like tuskin momentum or large numbers of dots in conquest suggests this is a problem area on low end devices. There are many ways to code the sequencing of the "checks" to determine if the answer is "yes" or "no" that will have quite different impacts on the performance of the application. On very old main frame devices it was often better to run the calculation split into components. Ie rather than doing 1+2+3=6 you would do 1+2 =3 then 3+3=6. (Grossly simple example). That's what I was trying to convey , not an independent second calculation. Probably my bad for the confusion.
To be fair, my request was not an explanation at all. I’m asking for documentation to end the debate. I know we can’t see code, I’m asking for something from CG that says what is true.
