The Luck blessing - what does it do exactly?

[kalirion]

I looked at my stats before and after getting it, and they didn't change. What exactly does it do?

[Oooska]

According to the Wiki[caveblazers.gamepedia.com], it increases all positive luck chances by 5%.

[kalirion]

Ok, thanks! But what does that mean exactly? If I have 10% to poison, does that become 15% or 10.5%? And does it apply to anything else like loot drop rates and damage rolls?

[Klokinator]

Luck is one of the most steamrolling blessings you can obtain. Anything- ANYTHING that has a % chance to occur (Not loot, unless you have the Blessing of Loot perk, in which case it WILL increase that one's chances) will happen 5% more often.

It's one of the weakest sounding, but secretly most potent perks you can use. Unless I have a choice of vampirism or something else, I always go for Luck.

[kalirion]

So what does "5% more often mean"? Does 10% become 10% + 5% = 15% or 10% + (5% * 10%) = 10.5%?

[Klokinator]

No idea. I'm pretty certain it's additive, however.

[YellowAfterlife]

It is additive, so if something had a 5% chance, it becomes a 10% chance.

It does affect things like (peeking through data dump I did earlier when helping with a guide)
- Chances of arrows to induce special effects from weapon
- Chance of Elven Bow to pierce
- Chance of effects for melee weapons with those (Spike/Fire/Poison/Butcher/Crystal/Mace)
- Chance of bleeding with Crowbill Scythe once it has that effect.
- Chance of effects for rings (Poison/Super Spike)
- Chance of bleeding with Bleed Blessing
- Chance of arrow explosion with Volatile blessing
- Chance of explosion on death with Martyrdom blessing
- Chance of additional arrow with Twofold blessing
- Chance of slowing with homing blessing T2 (whatever the name was)
- Chance of burning with Fiery Sword / Fiery Arrow blessings
- Chance of cursing targets with according blessing
- Chance of rune drop when playing with Runemaster perk
- Card-specific effects (Critical/Bleed/Missile/Justice)
Luck Card has the same way of function, to say.

So it isn't completely steamrolling, but it can be very good with low-chance-great-effect things like Blessing of Looting.

[Klokinator]

What data dump are you referring to?

[kalirion]

Thanks!

[YellowAfterlife]

Originally posted by Klokinator:

What data dump are you referring to?

Extracting tool-specific bytecode which contains any unlisted numbers and general logic.
Looks like this[i.imgur.com]. Not the easiest to look at but you can find things if you know what they're supposed to be named.
For clarity, not publicly available as that's technically source assets, but you can get similar results using AltarNET if much desired.

[Klokinator]

Any chance you guys could edit the wiki to change vague references to specific numbers? Ex: What is the blessing of loot percentage chance per tier?

[YellowAfterlife]

Originally posted by Klokinator:

Any chance you guys could edit the wiki to change vague references to specific numbers? Ex: What is the blessing of loot percentage chance per tier?

I did put all gathered information into the guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=941850408
I've not yet updated it with content added in the arena mode update, but it is still likely far more up-to-date than wiki.

[Klokinator]

Wow, that's great! Good work, man :)

[carnage]

Originally posted by YellowAfterlife:

Originally posted by Klokinator:

Any chance you guys could edit the wiki to change vague references to specific numbers? Ex: What is the blessing of loot percentage chance per tier?

I did put all gathered information into the guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=941850408
I've not yet updated it with content added in the arena mode update, but it is still likely far more up-to-date than wiki.

dude thank you for this

[Garfield面具]

Originally posted by YellowAfterlife:

Originally posted by Klokinator:

Any chance you guys could edit the wiki to change vague references to specific numbers? Ex: What is the blessing of loot percentage chance per tier?

I did put all gathered information into the guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=941850408
I've not yet updated it with content added in the arena mode update, but it is still likely far more up-to-date than wiki.

Thank you for this guide, so useful!