Tuesday, 21st June 2016, 00:07 by Gorgondantess
Recently, I was playing a Pakellas worshipper, and descended the Lair with my mental checklist of enemies I'd have to prepare for: Hydras, Elephant Swarms, Hydras, Spiny Frogs/Black Mambas, Hydras, you get the idea. I found myself woefully unprepared for most of them save my recent god gift Rod of Inaccuracy, but descended anyways - and when I entered the Lair, I found it didn't live up to its name. It wasn't inaccurate at all! I never missed a hydra once, though that's to be expected. But it worked against Spiny Frogs, even. And then I used it on a swarm of nagas outside the snake pits and cut down four of them in three casts. And then I ran into a Black Mamba and, hey, why not? Got a solid 50% hit rate against it! In fact, I daresay it was more accurate than my previous Pakellas worshipper's Wand of Lightning, which made no sense at all - until I realized I was wearing a randart ring of +9 Dex with this character, and it started to make more sense. I still wasn't sure, though, I browsed the wiki for information, but it was vague and outdated as always, so I ask you:
tl;dr: How exactly are rod attack's accuracy calculated? Is it Dex? Level? Evocations? Static? A mix of some? Was it the ring, or should I let this string of luck ride and roll a Chaos Knight next time? Also, what about spells? And is there a good resource for finding this information other than wasting you good peoples' time?
(Also, on the topic of Dexterity, I understand that they removed Dexterity's impact on damage for melee weapons, but what about UC? And sorry if all of this is in the wrong board, btw.)
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