EP mass shock "potency" problem in RNG
Could you PLEASE look at your AI's use of "potency" in arena? Every time I go up against an EP lead, that EP stuns 4 or 5 of my team and when my mass shock is done, I mostly stun 1 or 2. My potency ...
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"Goodgil;c-1561438" wrote:
Here's how it actually works. Ignore anything else people tell you, it's just wrong.
EP has a 70% chance to inflict stun when using his aoe. That means that 30% of the time, you won't even go to the potency/tenacity check, but it just won't happen.
If it does apply, you go to the check. The way it's calculated is chance to resist, minimum 15%. That is, if tenacity-potency > 15%, than that's the chance to resist. If tenacity-potency
Almost completely correct - and that middle part is the important thing. Palpatine's AoE isn't even guaranteed to try to stun the targets. On a particularly bad roll of RNG, he may never even do a potency/tenacity check against any of them, because they all hit that 30% chance for him to just not attempt to apply the stun. That's why there such a huge variance to how effective Palpatine's AoE is.
And the one error in the calculation is that it's 100+P-T = chance debuff is applied in %, minimum 15, where P = attacker's potency and T = defender's tenacity. Yes, the odds of a debuff being applied start at 100% (or 85%, technically, due to the minimum). See this video (link) where one of the Game Changers explained it last year after getting that information from the devs themselves. That's why tenacity is largely a useless stat - you need it to be huge to actually have an effect past the built-in advantage potency has in the equation.
