[crossfire] Chaos attack type (v1.12 17760rc): good or bad?

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.


Sorry for the late reply :)


Indeed, chaos apparently uses a random attack type, ignoring the weapon's one. 
And obviously not caring about what you're hitting :)

So losing life-stealing is logical in this case.


I'm not sure there is chaos resistance on armor, but I may be wrong. In any 
case I don't think it'd protect from anything, as chaos merely makes that 
random choice, it's not used.


Best regards


Nicolas


Le mercredi 30 septembre 2020, 11:38:02 CET Siegfried Eureca a écrit :
> I've been playing around with a Xerina I blessed with devourers (i.e.
> attack types include physical, chaos, death, depletion, drain, life
> stealing). I'm noticing that, despite the weapon having great speed and WC
> bonuses, it performs poorly on angels (Valriel's Church) and demons
> (Gorokh's Pit), it performs poorly compared to other one-handed weapons
> like Dark Blade of Devourers and Harakiri Sword of Devourers.
> 
> It's to my understanding that, if a weapon has multiple attack types, the
> server will calculate the potential damage per attack of each attack type,
> and use the "best"/maximal value when deciding how much damage a creature
> receives (nice!). However, I'm noticing that when using a weapon that has
> the chaos attack type, this doesn't appear to be the case. I see attack
> types that don't benefit me being used (i.e. electricity on hill giants,
> fire on demons, etc.).
> 
> I've done some source diving, but can't quite make out how chaos is
> supposed to work. Does it just pick a random attack type from the "pool" of
> attack types that chaos provides, or some random value of the other attack
> types on the weapon AND those supplied by the chaos "pool", or some other
> calculation? It seems that chaos isn't a particularly useful attack type in
> general, since it appears to be random in nature (rather than the default
> "pick the best" behavior most other weapons have), and seems to turn off
> the life-stealing ability of Devourers-blessed weapons.
> 
> Also, does armor with chaos resistance block damage from chaos
> weapons/spells, or does it just protect against a random element when I'm
> attacked?
> 
> Thank you.

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