Friday Grab Bag - 07/03/2020

From our August 2018 grab bag:

Yes, both Hand to Hand and Fist Wraps have the same penetration bonus as Celtic Dual, Dual Wield, and Left Axe as they are also considered “dual-wielding” specializations. Block and evade chances are reduced by 25% vs dual-wielders.

In testing this, the Savage and Mauler will still likely show more blocks and evades over the same number of tested styles than one of the Light Tanks would but this is because of their comparatively lower weaponskill and not due to a difference in their penetration bonus.

No, the bonus level does not affect an item’s proc rate chance. Only a given weapon’s (or armor’s) proc rate chance value controls this.

Proc rates are set individually on each item and so this can depend. Typically weapon (and armor) proc rates are between 7 and 12%. Some two-handed weapon procs do have a 3-5% higher proc rate but most two-handed weapons have identical proc rates to their one-handed versions.

The technical reason is because Theurgist pets (and Animist fire and forget turrets) are non-controlled pets that receive their instructions when summoned. This means that once summoned they have their own AI and are disconnected from their owner and so are unaffected if their original caster dies.

Conversely, controlled pets on classes are directly under control of their caster. This means the pet follows the caster, the caster can direct if the pet is in aggressive, defensive, or passive mode and can direct where it moves and who it attacks at all times, but does nothing on its own without those real-time instructions. Without a controller, this sort of pet has no one to direct it and so is set to be de-summoned whenever its controller dies.

In terms of balance, there are many limitations Theurgist pets have specifically:

• Can only attack 1 target for their entire duration
• Low hitpoints
• Only survive for their duration contrasted to controlled pets which last indefinitely
• Limited to how many can be summoned at once

Animist FnF pets have similar limitations as well:

• Can switch targets but cannot move
• Ground-targeted
• Low hitpoints
• Only survive for their duration contrasted to controlled pets which last indefinitely
• Limited to how many can be summoned at once

The above limitations are just inherent to the pets themselves but there are also many counters such as interrupting their casters before they can get the pets out, killing the pets directly with 1-2 casts or melee swings, and the myriad AoE and single-target pet-clearing abilities available.

Both are iconic classes and provide a unique strategy and playstyle to their respective realm. These differences are part of what makes DAoC so great! Changing this fundamental aspect of these pets living beyond their caster is not something we think warrants changing. That said, if you have constructive feedback regarding these, or any classes, we would love to hear from you!

The Howling Wraith Bracer has +Shadow Mastery skill on it, which is for Vampiirs. It is therefore a Hibernia-only drop. Similarly, Midgard only gets the Howling Soothsayer Bracer to drop from Kertom.

The “realms” flag on the item search is looking at the item itself to see if it is flagged for a specific realm. Since accessories can work across realms (unlike armor which has different resistances depending on the realm or weapons that have realm-specific skills), most of it is flagged as usable by all realms even if it only drops in or has stats that apply to a single realm.

For now, the database simply returns which monster or quest the item comes from but does not differentiate which realm’s monster drops it if there are multiple versions. This is something on our list to improve with the search!

Yes, this is still under discussion. We are still working towards getting Dark Age of Camelot onto Steam as soon as possible!