Short Questions Thread

Did Stormcall on Paladin shields replace Ring of Light? Or can RoL still spawn?

RoL still spawns on pala shields, it seems to be rarer than stormcall though.

men4ce wrote:RoL still spawns on pala shields, it seems to be rarer than stormcall though.

I know it's always been rare, just wasn't sure if it appeared this ladder or not. Thanks.

What's a decent percentage for Magic Find? Does the vanilla D2 rule still apply where too much MF can cause a lack of decent drops?

no, it just has diminishing returns meaning the more you have the less useful each additional point gets. somewhere around 300-400 is optimal

Did someone actually make excessive tests to prove that more than 15% CB with spells like tantrum/atmg/etc are faster than other orbs/sockets?

I'm actually doing some intense calculations right now like polynomial regression on skills to make it easier for comparisons and such, but so far idk. :-?

How do multiple sources of flat poison damage average out their durations? Say I had sources A,B and C. Is it the average between A and B and then average between A&B and C so it's (A+B+2C)/4? or are they all averaged simultaneously so that it's (A+B+C)/3?

TheUnderling wrote:How do multiple sources of flat poison damage average out their durations? Say I had sources A,B and C. Is it the average between A and B and then average between A&B and C so it's (A+B+2C)/4? or are they all averaged simultaneously so that it's (A+B+C)/3?

Your snake stance does 100 poison damage per second over 5 seconds.
You have a pair of gloves that do 10 poison damage per second over 9 seconds. First you add the damage per second=100+10=110. Then you add and average the duration = (5+9):2 = 7. Now in order to calculate the total damage, all you need to do is 7*110=770. As you can see, the not so impressive gloves, increased our total poison damage by 54%.

https://docs.median-xl.com/MXLU_vXVI_Do ... oison.html

I guess it's (A+B+C)/3 for the duration. Dmg should be A+B+C.

Is poison duration really that important? I mean which enemy survives 15 seconds?

I don't think you wrote that properly, based on the description you gave. You don't divide the poison damage by the duration.

From the little description you wrote:

( damage1 + damage2 +damage3 + ... ) * ( ( duration1 + duration2 + duration3 + ... ) / total number of duration sources )

I could be wrong, but that seems to be how you explained it.