Adarel posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as combat, CStats, General, LM, Lore-Master, loremaster, lotro, miss chance, physical resist, resistance, tactical resist, testing, theorycrafting, vol3 book1.
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In the latest book update, Turbine made some changes to the levels of resistance that mobs have. They seem to think that a 10% miss chance is perfectly acceptable before resistance reduction stats and legacies are taken into account. I don’t necessarily disagree if we are able to make up the difference with gear and maybe virtues or traits. However, I’m not sure that is quite possible.
The LM community on the official NA forums are rather perturbed by the fact that Turbine really gave us no warning about this and seemed to be unaware of the “resistance bug” for ~2 months (the bug being that resistances were much lower than they had intended). I would think some very simple combat parsing would have shown this problem immediately. I truly wish the LOTRO community had more tools at their disposal for judging DPS, misses, resistances, and various other variables. If so, it would have been obvious at least to us even if the developers were out picking wildflowers.
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Adarel posted this on January 22nd, 2010.
Categorized as beacon of hope, General, legacy, Legendary, LI, LM, lord of the rings online, Lore-Master, loremaster, lotro, LRM, physical resist, pool A, tactical healing rating, tactical resist.
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Well I’ve been 65 for a good while now, but have still not managed to find a decent legendary book. Why is it so hard? Am I asking too much?
I used to want the super-uber LM book of awesomeness which would have these legacies.
- Target Tactical Damage Skills Resist Rating
- Target Physical Resist Rating
- Target Fire Damage Skills Resist Rating
- Non-damaging Sign of Power Durations
- Beacon of Hope Healing
- Fire Skills Critical Rating
This turned out to be nearly impossible. It’s not actually impossible, but going for five Pool A legacies is probably not going to net the best results. (See here for the LM legacy pool breakdown.)
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