Range To Hit Penalties (in General)

So I know this page exists somewhere on the wiki but I can't for the life of me find it. Does anyone know where the to hit penalties in range rounds are listed on the Wiki?

under "Various Formulae" then "to hit calculations" hope that helps

I swear, I just checked there.

Nope, I am looking for the penalty of range weapons to hit in range rounds.

look under archery

that might be the info you are looking

I might be right

you might be crazy

Maybe it's just evasion that's more effective in early ranged ?

...meaning that if the enemy has no evasion, maybe the chance to hit is exactly the same from the first to the last ranged round.

EliteOfDelete and I both feel as if we've seen the specific numbers somewhere in Wiki. Go forth and search, Sickone!

AFAIK There are no To-Hit penalties in ranged rounds (discounting using a bow without archery trained or under 1.0). To-Hit penalties for Ranged weapons only kick in during melee.

I believe all damage in ranged is based off the Dex CTH Calc. (Excluding the archery thing obviously)

I could be wrong though.

This page?

http://www.carnageblender.com/wiki/To%2dhit

Xeno, are you sure about that? There is quite a bit of empirical evidence that supports my thoughts.

For example, it is not uncommon for me to miss the first round with an HoC but always hit the last round of range. I could be wrong tho.

If there are indeed no to hit penalties in range rounds then there is a massive bug floating around for bows, which I could easily prove :).

I was thinking something along the lines as to what is found on the direct damage spells page, but for range weapons and hitting.

Ranged penalties for Magic Damage

Without a Helm of Clearsight 58%/55%/52%/49%/46% reductions in rounds 1/2/3/4/5 respectively
With a Helm of Clearsight 58%/55%/52%/49%/46%/0% reductions in rounds 1/2/3/4/5/6 respectively

Lol no I'm not sure about it at all, I just cant recall seeing any formulas for that in the wiki. I've definitely observed that during combat as well, but I've chocked it up to other factors rather than To-Hit calcs. Perhaps it is a bug.

^ Yeah I knew about those, but I've never been able to find one for ranged weapons, so I was under the assumption that they weren't under the same penalties.

See I remember coming across it and seeing penalties for range weapons. I thought it was stupid because why does a range weapon have a to hit penalty for being a range weapon. Like it is suppose to shoot in range.

I kinda got upset about it when I saw it so that is why I remember it. I think it is only for the first two rounds tho, three if using an HoC.

There is obviously some penalty though (or bug) since Elbow fighting against someone with no dex, so 100 BTH, can miss the first round.

That shouldn't be happening if there were no penalties.

It's quite possible, hopefully NS can shed some light. Personally I don't remember seeing that in the Wiki before, but it's quite possible its in there just hidden somewhere completely irrelevant to where it should be.

Or maybe it was in a change log post when the range rounds got extended.

The best explanation I could find was from a super old change log




Also this in a later change log:


ranged 4: 2 attacks @ range 4 penalties
ranged 3: 1 attack @ range 3 penalties
ranged 2: 1 attack @ range 2 penalties

NOW:

ranged 5: 1 attack @ range 4 penalties
ranged 4: 1 attack @ range 3 penalties
ranged 3: 1 attack @ range 2 penalties
ranged 2: 1 attack @ range 2 penalties



So I'm guessing there is some sort of penalty, though it's certainly not in the wiki anywhere that I can find.

Hmm maybe I never saw it in the wiki and it was only hinted at from those change logs.

Still though the "small" penalty sounds very subjective because Viole has a ~226 CTH yet can miss in round one.

And here you can see the Elbow on the Hal failing to hit properly. I think this is more of a bug though than the range penalties but still.

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003Jb0

To clarify, with ~230 CTH, I occasionally fail to hit more than once for each of the first two rounds, every now and then though the odds today were particularly large. Perhaps DBs are boosted during the first and second rounds as well? Though it'd have to be less than two times.

" Evasion is more effective during ranged combat: x2.2 during the first ranged round, x1.96 during the 2nd, x1.72 during the 3rd, x1.48 during the fourth round, and 1.24 during the last round.

With the Helm of Clearsight, these multipliers become: x2.2 during the first ranged round, x1.96 during the 2nd, x1.72 during the 3rd, x1.48 during the fourth round, 1.24 during the fifth round, and 1.0 during the last round. "

DBs grant extra effective evasion levels on top of any other evasion sources, so it's quite conceivable they would also get enhanced, if the effectiveness boost is calculated for the sum total of existing evasion regardless of source.

Hmm, nope, apparently they get added at the very end, and only trained evasion is boosted (by ranged round) and/or penalized (by lack of DX), and it's boosted XP-wise, not effect-wise... everything else is flat addition afterwards (still XP-wise though).

Dbs are not boosted in range rounds. They are just a flat evasion.