VA (in General)

These are some relevant fight results this morning, after I noticed I was getting my clock cleaned by people I was able to beat last night before I went to bed.

This is against Kaiousama. He's casting a DM of 4904. I have a VA of 5,816/5,894 (second biggest in the game, right now). Does this seem excessive to people? Why is my VA not positive? Why do I take 25,000 points of damage when I only hit for 1000?

Anybody have any insights? Needless to say, I'm unlearning my VA right now.

Yozan Parsa's familiar crunched shevo [997] Yozan Parsa's familiar draws strength from his weapon! [-25700] Yozan Parsa's familiar pounded shevo [1073] Yozan Parsa's familiar draws strength from his weapon! [-24451] Yozan Parsa eviscerated shevo [1898] Yozan Parsa draws strength from his weapon! [-6419] Yozan Parsa eviscerated shevo [1778]	shevo takes damage from his own Magic missile (567)! shevo's Magic missile hit Yozan Parsa [361] evo jr's familiar beat Yozan Parsa [1083] evo jr takes damage from his own Decay (712)! evo jr's Decay hit Yozan Parsa [47] evoman stumbled swinging at Yozan Parsa
R.I.P. Yozan Parsa's familiar	R.I.P. shevo
Yozan Parsa rent evo jr's familiar [2118] Yozan Parsa draws strength from his weapon! [-51515] Yozan Parsa sliced into evo jr's familiar [1723] Yozan Parsa draws strength from his weapon! [-34321]	evo jr's familiar mistimed his attack at Yozan Parsa evoman dislimbed Yozan Parsa [2978]
R.I.P. Yozan Parsa

Nasty damage!

I have another question from what you've posted. Has VA always worked with UC? (Yozan Parsa's familiar draws strength from his weapon!) Should it work with UC?

Johnnywas, yes it does. Everybody who's capable of hitting in melee with a melee weapon gets VA cast on them - that includes the "UC weapon".

Yeah it's a possible. It did work in CB1 btw, just ran a quick test. You learn something new everyday!

I've modified DM so it will fizzle any enchantment that casts under its base level. No more negative VA, but the DM guys have a 2k point head start.

Thanks, Jon. Seeing -80,000 HP on my char made me think someone had gotten a huge CoBF somehow. I guess I'll wait for a while before training it back.

Can you make char statistics work like the new item statistics, where you can see the values of the top 10 DM's, for instance? (Yeah, probably a NORS (Newly Offered Retarded Suggestion), but it doesn't hurt to ask. That way, people can better judge what to train their VA to.

Oh, and your Community Member page says: "A member of Carnage Blender 2 since November 3, 2000." Been coding on this version since you started the first one? :p