New Persona Stats

[RickF7666]

I'm taking a look at the new stats in the gamedata file and I've been able to figure out what most of them are, but what the hell is Potency? I know it shows up on the default Persona screen under the combat stats page and the description in the gamedata file is "Base Percent Increase", but what is the "base" that it is increasing?

Oh and what is Strikethrough? It doesn't come with any description in the gamedata file.

ps. I just had a thought about what "Potency" might be. Do you think that EQ2 is adding a Bioware like romance like rpg element to the game?

[gm9]

It's a base damage modifier AFAIK.

[lordebon]

Originally Posted by RickF7666

I'm taking a look at the new stats in the gamedata file and I've been able to figure out what most of them are, but what the hell is Potency? I know it shows up on the default Persona screen under the combat stats page and the description in the gamedata file is "Base Percent Increase", but what is the "base" that it is increasing?

Oh and what is Strikethrough? It doesn't come with any description in the gamedata file.

ps. I just had a thought about what "Potency" might be. Do you think that EQ2 is adding a Bioware like romance like rpg element to the game?

Potency = Base % = a basic % increase to the base damage/heal/whatever. This applies very early in calculations, meaning it can have a big effect on crit and + Mod. If SuperNuke does 9000 damage normally, and you get 10% Potency then base it will do 9900. In the initial case, you could stack up to 4500 +Mod on top for a regular hit. With the base %, you can stack 4950 on top (a 10% increase because of the 10% potency increase).

Strikethrough is the chance to ignore an avoidance check, IIRC. It's why mobs that do that are pretty universally hated by brawlers, since they're primarily avoidance tanks.