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Originally Posted by Dolalin
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So Torven sent me the logic they use on TAKP which I've given to the P99 devs. They took their code from a client decompile so it's as close as I imagine you could get to accuracy. A Trilogy client decompile would be interesting to see, perhaps the logic is in there too (TAKP's client code has a few extra lines to handle channeling AAs, they modify the roll a bit). But looking at it I doubt it changed much.
Based on what I see, channeling is indeed overpowered on p99.
Low level characters should start out with only a 10% chance to channel through hits, which climbs a hill from a minimum roll of 39 to a maximum roll of 370, out of 391, as you progress your levels and channeling skill. It caps at 95% chance to channel.
Additionally you get a level bonus to channel if the spell you are casting is more than 5 levels lower than you are.
Chance to channel is effectively capped at 10% until level 6. Then it scales slowly upwards as a function of level and channeling skill.
My level 3 iksar shaman was about 50/50 to channel through hits on p99 which always felt off. Her chance should be 10%.
A level 10 caster with max channeling and casting a level 8 spell should have a 16% chance to channel.
A level 20 caster with max channeling and casting a 20th spell should have a 31% chance to channel. But casting level 4 gate, they would have a 44% chance to channel due to level bonus.
A level 55 SK with 210 channeling, casting Feign Death (level 30 spell for them) would have a 73% chance to channel (due also to level bonus).
That should give you an idea of how it scales.
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Nice work, thanks for looking into this. Fits with what I expected. Channeling on P99 is probably fine at higher levels like 20-30+ but it's way too successful for level 1-30.