Post#3 » Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:23 pm
What does increase Attack Chance 7% do?
In your inventory page, you have a stat; ATK followed by a numeric value...
Lets say your ATK is ATK 5000. ATK isn't a rating of strength; that's STR, nor is it your damage, that's DMG. ATK is a mathematical calculation method that involves DEX.
This would add +350 ATK to your ATK score. Sometimes these things do not show up in the UI inventory screen but the always show in your #mystats window.
[so if you don't see it rest assured it is there]
So with your pet buff up your ATK would = 5350. Think of it as your "odds of hitting/missing" your target. The higher the number, the greater your attack chance % rises, the more likely you are to hit a mob in battle. This will show often when you get a lot of small crits. If your average damage against a mob is 2000 damage, but once in a while you get crits for 1-1000 damage, those are actually attacks that "missed" but your attack chance bonus [and other influencing factors] saved the miss and dealt damage to the target anyway.
The biggest pro shows in boss-type battles on melee characters. On a fight that lasts several minutes or more, those weakened hits that would have been misses can add up to 100,000+ more damage, which means you are killing things faster at all times.
Think of it as Bonus Accuracy...