Post:The goo spell - 3/13/2009 - 14:50:53

Re: The goo spell · on 3/13/2009 2:50:53 PM	73
>>I'm not sure what critical success actually means, but removing me from Inviso happened with less then a critical success, if that means 25 RT being the max. After you win or lose a statistic contest, we have a value that determines how much you won or lost it by. This is unrelated to the mana you put into the spell, except insofar as that mana is a potent positive modifier to your score. You could probably gain a really high score snap-casting at a goblin, while all the mana in the world won't get you a high-end (or even necessarily a success) against something out of your league. At a certain point on the curve, we call it a critical success -- you've severely trumped your opponent -- and most spells stop scaling shortly after that point. Some spells scale beyond that, up to a maximum of about 2x a critical success (at that point the curve blips to infinity and further increase becomes impossible with our model). This is usually considered a disadvantage to the spell, since getting ultra-high success rates is a very dubious prospect in most cases. -Armifer
This message was originally posted in The Necromancers - Complaints - Necromancers, by DR-ARMIFER on the play.net forums.