As a warrior, the "precentage to hit"....?

[Siiboxic]

How, as a two-handed warrior.. the light-tank within my squad, does it make sense that I miss my "95%" attacks on enemies over 3 times within a 4 hour session?

Is the statistics/hit-chance busted for anyone else, or is it just me?

Would appreciate your input.

[Firecam]

Probably uncanny evasion or bad rng

[gimmethegepgun]

It really isn't that unlikely.

[Fallaner, the Writer Eternal]

It's called getting unlucky.

[SchnitzelTruck]

Last I checked, 95% chance to hit isnt a 100% chance to hit. No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ you missed an attack occasionally.

[Siiboxic]

I'm apprecaiting all the hostility with some of these responses - tired to mitiage this by stating,
"does it make sense that I miss my "95%" attacks on enemies over 3 times within a 4 hour session?"

Within a four hour session we have maybe 4 combat situations at the most, within which I miss atleast two attacks (which are 95% chance to hit, I pay attention to the hit chance.)


So I'm asking: what gives? What might I be missing? Do NPCs really generally have that good uncanny evasion?

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Siiboxic:

How, as a two-handed warrior.. the light-tank within my squad, does it make sense that I miss my "95%" attacks on enemies over 3 times within a 4 hour session?

Is the statistics/hit-chance busted for anyone else, or is it just me?

Would appreciate your input.

How many times did you take a swing in 4 hours? A 95% miss chance means on average you miss 1 out every 20 swings.

But it does not mean exactly 1 out of 20. That's just what you should expect over a few hundred swings.

To give you an idea, if you make exactly 20 swings in a row with a 95% hit chance you get the following:

35.6% chance of missing exactly 0 times
37.7% chance of missing exactly 1 time
18.8% chance of missing exactly 2 times
5.9% chance of missing exactly 3 times
1.3% chance of missing exactly 4 times

There's nothing unusual about missing over 3 times during 4 hours of play. Undoubtedly you took at least a few dozen swings with that character.

[Siiboxic]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Originally posted by Siiboxic:

How, as a two-handed warrior.. the light-tank within my squad, does it make sense that I miss my "95%" attacks on enemies over 3 times within a 4 hour session?

Is the statistics/hit-chance busted for anyone else, or is it just me?

Would appreciate your input.

How many times did you take a swing in 4 hours? A 95% miss chance means on average you miss 1 out every 20 swings.

But it does not mean exactly 1 out of 20. That's just what you should expect over a few hundred swings.

To give you an idea, if you make exactly 20 swings in a row with a 95% hit chance you get the following:

35.6% chance of missing exactly 0 times
37.7% chance of missing exactly 1 time
18.8% chance of missing exactly 2 times
5.9% chance of missing exactly 3 times
1.3% chance of missing exactly 4 times

There's nothing unusual about missing over 3 times during 4 hours of play. Undoubtedly you took at least a few dozen swings with that character.

Thank you, I apprecaite you trying to clarify the stats behind my missing chance. This makes it more realistic for my complaint. I guess I will try, within my next 4 hour session (although it might be more accurate to count my combats, because combats do not always come at the same rate within 4 hours.)

I am remarking upon the fact that within a single of combat (various warrior abilities being used and all sorts of other things, which is not always my direct swings with my two-handed weapon), I miss at least once, if not twice. These combats usually have about 3-4 round with me making an action in them, including abilities.

This makes me question whether or not my Warrior is fundametnally busted or not.

[Firecam]

5% is big.

I recently played Lost Kingdoms (gamecube) and a single card could have saved me, i got it at the end of the deck... twice in a row (30 cards deck) !

In Luminous Arc (DS) you can hit up to 99%, and i failed that a couple of time in a 4/5 hours session.

If you die because of that just blame the game and not your strategies, works for me :D

[Siiboxic]

I'm not dying, just often convincing myself and my party that the Warrior/Two-Handed tank was not worth it. Very frustrating to experience.

[Hobocop]

There's always Peace of Mind for the accuracy buff if you want those guaranteed hits.

[Siiboxic]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

There's always Peace of Mind for the accuracy buff if you want those guaranteed hits.

I have a couple of scrolls I'm hanging on to to buff my party, but I'm starting to think I should pass them off so they can buff me.

LIke I said, I miss more than 95% of my actual swings or abilities that rely upon the hit chance (Whirlwind, Crippling Blow, etc...) so I think something is wrong with my char.

[Firecam]

Oh your lucky then, cuz those 95% misses probably cost me more than anything else during my entire gaming experience.

[Fallaner, the Writer Eternal]

Originally posted by Siiboxic:

Originally posted by Hobocop:

There's always Peace of Mind for the accuracy buff if you want those guaranteed hits.

I have a couple of scrolls I'm hanging on to to buff my party, but I'm starting to think I should pass them off so they can buff me.

LIke I said, I miss more than 95% of my actual swings or abilities that rely upon the hit chance (Whirlwind, Crippling Blow, etc...) so I think something is wrong with my char.

That's what happens with RNG. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you get remarkably unlucky.

Happens in all games with RNG hit chances. Fire Emblem, XCOM (XCOM is practically famous for missing 95% shots constantly), D&D, etc.

If hit chance is based on RNG, even if the hit chance is really high, you might get REALLY unlucky and miss evey. Single. Time. It's not based on an invisible counter saying "You will only miss 1 time out of every 20 hits", it's rolling a dice. Your dice rolls can get remarkably unlucky. Or remarkably lucky and have a spree of critical hits.

[Garble]

I mean, XCom has had 100% chance-to-hit misses.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by Garble Master:

I mean, XCom has had 100% chance-to-hit misses.

Points gun directly on enemies face, fires, still misses. That's XCOM baby.