Aggro Changes on Test Server

[Vaion]

This white damage modifier... Will we be seeing a sharp reduction in warrior hate generatiion across the board or did the 1000% mod only apply to a few edge cases?

It applied to all classes who dealt damage. (melee and spell)

[Noren]

Ahhh okay thanks for explaining. I was worried white damage was melee attacks exclusively. Sounds like a clever, future proof fix to EQ aggro. Bravo sir!

[Mojak]

This white damage modifier... Will we be seeing a sharp reduction in warrior hate generatiion across the board or did the 1000% mod only apply to a few edge cases?

It applied to all classes who dealt damage. (melee and spell)

this might be a silly question, but if lets say this multiplier was X1 currently, and you change it to x.1, does that mean +9500 Hate procs are now 95 hate procs?

I havent looked at the emu code in for ever, so I dont remember how its setup.

will this also apply to how much initial hate is generated when a mob aggros on you just by walking by it? (I think this value is 1, but I could be wrong)

[Vaion]

This white damage modifier... Will we be seeing a sharp reduction in warrior hate generatiion across the board or did the 1000% mod only apply to a few edge cases?

It applied to all classes who dealt damage. (melee and spell)

this might be a silly question, but if lets say this multiplier was X1 currently, and you change it to x.1, does that mean +9500 Hate procs are now 95 hate procs?

I havent looked at the emu code in for ever, so I dont remember how its setup.

will this also apply to how much initial hate is generated when a mob aggros on you just by walking by it? (I think this value is 1, but I could be wrong)

You are way over complicating it

If your spell adds 9500 hate, then that is what it adds.
There is an additional multiplier added into it that works like this:
100+spell bonuses + worn bonuses + AA bonuses + class bonuses.

If your spell, worn, AA and class bonuses are all 0's then you would be left with 100% multiplier.

The code then generates the final end value as Hate value (9500) * multiplier (100) / 100 = 9500.

Before this change the multiplier was getting messed up and multiplying itself by 10. So a 100 multiplier was becoming 1000. Thus the old formula was doing hate value (9500) * multiplier (1000) / 100 = 95000.

That is why people were blowing through the hate cap so quickly. It's not a nerf to anyone because its a blanket reduction on hate values across the board to everything.

[Mojak]

lol, I'm over complicating it! Math.. its crazy


Thanks for that Yeah I didnt figure it wa sa nerf, but it occurred to me that there are things that arent spells, or melee that generate hate.

I should really download the source and look at it again.. like I said, its been way too long

Thanks Vaion

[Vaion]

Remember also that THF uses a lot of custom code. Especially within the hate/aggro code because we upped the hate cap before and had to redo a large portion of the aggro generation coding to compensate for that increase.