Does Death Defy perk even work?

[lentinant]

Have 10 lvl of this, 15% of revival chance. But no, i didn't got a single time this occuring (wait, no, got one, at the game beginning, even without this perk being unlocked), with a lots of deaths after it was maxed. It works only with Hyperion Ring for me. So, was that completely waste of gold?

[newman]

It works.

[Les White]

Works fine. You do understand that 15% isn't a very large percentage chance, right?

[TentacleMayor]

It does. I've gotten it with just lvl1. In a spike pit of course.

[Asterio]

You have 85% chance of not triggering it, so don't expect to see it very often.

[lentinant]

Originally posted by Asterio:

You have 85% chance of not triggering it, so don't expect to see it very often.

Originally posted by Foghorn Dickhorn:

Works fine. You do understand that 15% isn't a very large percentage chance, right?

But 15% isn't 0%. I suppose, it should be like 15 times per 100 deaths (approximately). But as my practice shows, it's much, MUCH lower. Considering i hadn't a single resurrection with this, is suppose, it is not worth gold i spent on it.

[denton91]

Welcome to the "being borked by rgn"ville. It really works, but much less than one'd like And mostly when you don't really need it.

Don't rely on it :3

[racknae]

Originally posted by lentinant:

Originally posted by Asterio:

You have 85% chance of not triggering it, so don't expect to see it very often.

Originally posted by Foghorn Dickhorn:

Works fine. You do understand that 15% isn't a very large percentage chance, right?

But 15% isn't 0%. I suppose, it should be like 15 times per 100 deaths (approximately). But as my practice shows, it's much, MUCH lower. Considering i hadn't a single resurrection with this, is suppose, it is not worth gold i spent on it.

Because 15 in 100 deaths is not a constant. It's only the theoretical probability. In practice it's highly variable. Sometimes it will happen four times in a row. Sometimes it won't activate once for a long time.

[Les White]

Originally posted by lentinant:

But 15% isn't 0%. I suppose, it should be like 15 times per 100 deaths (approximately). But as my practice shows, it's much, MUCH lower. Considering i hadn't a single resurrection with this, is suppose, it is not worth gold i spent on it.

I'm positive you didn't do 100 runs.

I'm also positive that human perception has a way of making people think that statistics aren't valid.

[lentinant]

Originally posted by Foghorn Dickhorn:

I'm positive you didn't do 100 runs.

22 hours, ~200 lvl, guess again

[Les White]

22 hours with death defy?

Guess again.

[Bisen]

It is pretty rare. Would be nice if it got buffed, either to occur more often, or to restore a higher percentage of your health. Since it only gives oyu 25% health, you're likely to just die again in one or 2 blows.

[Russian Warship Go F*** Yourself]

I actually got it on level 1....

Was really unexpected, but I can confirm it works!

[nomadredd]

I have not seen it work yet. Im on level 1

[ShinkuTear]

See, in order for 15% to properly manifest, you can't simply do 100 runs and assume 15 procs. You need on the order of a thousand, or even thousands of runs... like 5000, and then you will probly end up seeing it kick in a little over 750 times, assuming RNG doesn't end up against you too much.

The skill will seem to trigger far more often on lives that get the special item with the same effect because, IIRC, the skill takes priority to the item being consumed, the item is 100% chance to defy, and results in an extra 'death' for the skill to defy on that heir. You are more likely to get a 15% chance to occur if it gets 2 attempts instead of 1, savvy?

Unreliable unless you feel particularly blessed and/or lucky, but there are things you could be worse off upgrading, and it is usually well loved when it *does* proc.

[99xPotions]

It is simple as that:
A random number will be generated on your death, ranging from 1 to 100.
If the value generated is 15 or lower, you'll get a Death Defy.

It is possible for you to die 200 times and not having a single Death Defy.
it is also possible for you to activate that effect several times in a row.

So, you can't really rely on that.