charge really useless now?

[Archaven]

not sure if it's just me.. at level 17.. charge deflection 51 accuracy. lol? such a high level with so low accuracy. or the chance to trigger depends on intuitive?

[Boeroer]

It shouldn't be that low. At least each Power Level should add +3 ACC (besides the char's base ACC).

[thelee]

not sure if it's just me.. at level 17.. charge deflection 51 accuracy. lol? such a high level with so low accuracy. or the chance to trigger depends on intuitive?

It shouldn't be that low. At least each Power Level should add +3 ACC (besides the char's base ACC).

 

there's a couple things going on here. on the plus side: i think archaven actually found a legit bug!

 

first, the UI is inaccurate when it comes to ability accuracy. from the power level guide:

  

General guidelines: First of all, tool-tip accuracy is inaccurate and inconsistent. The one you see when you right-click on an ability ignores ability and power level scaling. The one you see when you hover over the ability in your HUD ignores power level scaling, but counts ability level scaling. Anyway, regardless of power level, there is a scaling ability level accuracy bonus, which is equal to 2 * (power_level - 1) of the spell. So a PL3 spell will inherently have a +4 ability level accuracy bonus, whereas a PL1 spell will have none. There is also a scaling ability level penetration bonus, which is equal to +.5 per ability level.

 

charge should inherently have a +6 ability level bonus to ACC, and then each PL you have higher than PL4 should give it another +1 at least. The combat log will show you all the modifiers that actually end up getting used:

 

 

Eder is a single-class fighter at level 20, so he should get +6 ability level ACC and +5 power level ACC, which he does.

 

The bug appears to be that all abilities should also have a baseline accuracy of 20; this is just the starting accuracy for all characters, and then they get +3 per character level above level 1. For whatever reason, Charge isn't getting this. I'll go report this in the bugs forum.

Edited October 23, 2018 by thelee