Way too many critical misses

[Optimus crime]

so my tavern brawler throwing barb has 90-99% hit chance and never less than that and yet somehow approximately 30-35% of his throws are critical misses. Am i missing something? what might be the reason of such a high number? i've estimated it over the course of this entire playtrough, ever since i picked tavern brawler at lvl4 situation was the same up until now in act3

[Omegatherion]

Have you, by any chance, not turned off the karmic dice?

[brendan_in_china]

Once your hit chance is 95%, you will only critical miss because even a 2 will be a hit.

I suggest respec'ing out of Tavern brawler so you can experience more regular misses and it will therefore feel like you have less critical misses.

[Optimus crime]

i have turned off the karmic dice yes. And yes, i do understand that only misses i've got are the critical ones, but they sould make a grad total of ~5% out of my attacks, and yet just now i've achieved 3 misses in a row

[Metallicus]

Sounds like you broke the bounded accuracy with the Tavern Brawler feat. Is it even fun to play with that high of a hit chance? Just curious as it doesn't sound like a challenge.

[Draknalor]

Originally posted by Metallicus:

Sounds like you broke the bounded accuracy with the Tavern Brawler feat. Is it even fun to play with that high of a hit chance? Just curious as it doesn't sound like a challenge.

This game is not a challenge if you have proper build/Gear.

That’s just how it is.

For example.

Here's me defeating Tactician cazador before he gets his first turn.

https://youtu.be/Un5u73IAYjM

[Metallicus]

Originally posted by Draknalor:

Originally posted by Metallicus:

Sounds like you broke the bounded accuracy with the Tavern Brawler feat. Is it even fun to play with that high of a hit chance? Just curious as it doesn't sound like a challenge.

This game is not a challenge if you have proper build/Gear.

That’s just how it is.

For example.

Here's me defeating Tactician cazador before he gets his first turn.

https://youtu.be/Un5u73IAYjM

I should stop role-playing and start kicking butt, lol.

[Zeel Ara]

The game is out to get you. The developers have secretly created an anti-player bias in the RNG, because they want the players to feel bad. It is true because I say so.

[brendan_in_china]

Originally posted by Brøther:

..but they sould make a grad total of ~5% out of my attacks, and yet just now i've achieved 3 misses in a row

This is not how it works.

You need to do hundreds of rolls to get it consistently around 5% and over the course of the game, with thousands of rolls, you should experience all manner of strange anomalies.

That's why for example rogue 11+ is something special; they no longer roll <10 with skill checks.

[larhtas]

Roll your dice better!
Roll like you mean it!
This is the only way!

[The Yeen Queen]

Originally posted by Brøther:

i have turned off the karmic dice yes. And yes, i do understand that only misses i've got are the critical ones, but they sould make a grad total of ~5% out of my attacks, and yet just now i've achieved 3 misses in a row

Streaks happen even in "truly" random number samplings. 5% doesn't mean that you'll only miss once every single set of 20 rolls. It means when you zoom out to the big picture, only 1 in 20 rolls on average was a miss. It is well within the realm of possibility for 20 of those misses to have been all back to back. It's also well within the realm of possbilities to go 100+ rolls without seeing a miss come up even once. But when you zoom out to 1000 or more rolls, it's going to average out to 1 in 20.

As has been said many times, the dice don't care what the last roll was. That 5% chance is only for each individual roll. What the last roll came up as doesn't matter, nor does the result affect what the next roll will be.

[syphonhail]

Speaking of Critical Misses
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y6PaTIO9npc

[larhtas]

Originally posted by syphonhail:

Speaking of Critical Misses
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y6PaTIO9npc

Lol those videos are priceless. I heard they are making a second season in d&d universe.

[guard65]

I wonder why you think you do not deserved to miss.