Research:Endorphin's Floating Friend

EFF and Effects on Fighting

Quow's research seems to indicate a fixed Action_points cost for blocking with EFF, which is well-known.

I engaged combat with a number of NPCs that I would not normally be able to attack with my weapons while EFF up (5+ enemies). I had forgotten that I was skillcapped and I had a 0% block rate with the shield. Combat ended up proceeding as I didn't have EFF up, I was not parrying of course, but I was getting about 1.1 attacks/round off, which was about right for the skillcap. This seems to indicate that a shield being "too late" either costs nothing in terms of action points or significantly less.

For someone of sufficient ma.sp.de for TPA, depending on the content you're doing; this would likely be extra justification for using a shield in the 90% - 95% range if you also partially rely on melee skills. Venia (talk) 20:11, 25 October 2021 (EDT)

Blocking Research

Large Bone Shield (Djb Custom - High Quality), ~ 15 lb

Def Levels	Raw Bonus	Modified Bonus	Blocking Swoops	Late Swoops	Total Swoops	Blocking %	Date	Character
114 - 115	209	209	1356	1387	2743	49.43	26 Jan 2010	Morpheus
116 - 117	210	210	403	363	766	52.61	28 Jan 2010	Morpheus
118 - 119	211	211	391	317	708	55.23	28 Jan 2010	Morpheus
120 - 121	212	212	1513	1419	2932	51.60	28 Jan 2010	Morpheus
122 - 123	213	213	837	745	1582	52.91	30 Jan 2010	Morpheus

Medium Metal Shield, 17 7/9 lb

Def Levels	Raw Bonus	Modified Bonus	Blocking Swoops	Late Swoops	Total Swoops	Blocking %	Date	Character
200	255	255	2526	1342	2868	65.31	01 Feb 2010	Morpheus
299	296	296	528	42	570	92.63	08 Feb 2010	Aberlon

Large Wooden shield, 20 lb

Def Levels	Raw Bonus	Modified Bonus	Blocking Swoops	Late Swoops	Total Swoops	Blocking %	Date	Character
200	255	255	829	1266	2095	39.57	01 Feb 2010	Morpheus
210	260	260	974	1179	2153	45.24	01 Feb 2010	Morpheus
212 - 213	261	261	992	1135	2127	46.64	01 Feb 2010	Morpheus
214	262	262	1204	1354	2558	47.07	02 Feb 2010	Morpheus
224	267	267	1132	1083	2215	51.11	02 Feb 2010	Morpheus
226	269	269	1163	1181	2344	49.62	02 Feb 2010	Morpheus
228	270	270	1685	1604	3289	51.23	02 Feb 2010	Morpheus
244 - 245	278	278	1665	1093	2758	60.37	03 Feb 2010	Morpheus
260 - 261	287	287	2681	1164	3545	67.17	04 Feb 2010	Morpheus
298 - 299	296	296	1952	933	2885	67.66	27 Jan 2010	Aberlon
284	299	299	107	29	136	78.68	06 Feb 2010	Morpheus
286	300	300	2427	700	3127	77.61	07 Feb 2010	Morpheus
294	305	305	566	138	706	80.45	07 Feb 2010	Morpheus
300	308	308	2521	472	2993	84.23	07 Feb 2010	Morpheus
308	312	312	1590	255	1845	86.18	13 Feb 2010	Morpheus
316	316	316	1832	256	2088	87.74	13 Feb 2010	Morpheus
352	336	336	7619	509	8128	93.74	23 Feb 2010	Morpheus
372	346	346	9785	344	10129	96.60	04 Mar 2010	Morpheus
382	351	351	33869	1091	34960	96.88	07 Mar 2010	Morpheus

Blocking% vs ma.sp.def bonus for Large Wooden Shield:

An open office spreadsheet and an excel export are available, I'm trying to find an equation for the underlying curve that I believe this graph shows that fits the form 100*(1-e^x) taking based on the shield weight in ninths of a pound (20 * 9 = 180) and the ma.sp.def bonus. If anyone wishes to look at the spreadsheets and play with the values to try and make a curve that matches the observed results, they're welcome to do so.

I'd expect x to be of the form -bonus/weight, possibly with some modifiers to either or both values.

Large Steel Shield (Djb Custom, inferior quality), ~ 22 lb

Def Levels	Raw Bonus	Modified Bonus	Blocking Swoops	Late Swoops	Total Swoops	Blocking %	Date	Character
316	316	316	1501	602	2103	71.37	13 Feb 2010	Morpheus
324	321	321	3504	1387	4891	71.64	15 Feb 2010	Morpheus
334	326	326	4448	1323	5771	77.08	16 Feb 2010	Morpheus
342	330	330	4995	1334	6329	78.92	23 Feb 2010	Morpheus
352	336	336	5769	1106	6875	83.91	25 Feb 2010	Morpheus
362	341	341	17125	2667	19792	86.52	03 Mar 2010	Morpheus
372	346	346	11070	1430	12500	88.56	07 Mar 2010	Morpheus
382	351	351	4777	522	5299	90.15	08 Mar 2010	Morpheus
392	357	357	4136	316	4452	92.90	10 Mar 2010	Morpheus
400	361	361	47560	3230	50790	93.64	2 Apr 2010	Morpheus

Tsortean Metal Shield, 27 7/9 lb

Def Levels	Raw Bonus	Modified Bonus	Blocking Swoops	Late Swoops	Total Swoops	Blocking %	Date	Character
592	450	450	4019	184	4203	95.43	27 Jan 2010	Menouthis

Notes

I suggest checking whether the abilities of the attacker have any influence on the blocking rate before gathering too much of this data, otherwise you're going to find it's uncomparable unless everyone fights against the same type of NPC, which wields the same type of weapon, in the same lighting conditions, etc, etc...

--Chat 23:59, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Swoop rate is constant depending only on the skills of the caster. Though I can't provide a link to any specific research on this, it is implied on both Sined and Sekiri's websites and is accepted as fact amongst the wizards :-) Menouthis 00:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Empirically I think I have enough experience of the spell to categorically state that blocking is simply a case of bonus vs shield weight. Zexium 01:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

The bigger the sample size the more reliable the block %, so ideally we want all the data for a single user / shield / bonus as a single entry. Aggregated Aberlon's large wooden shield data. Zexium 09:11, 29 January 2010 (UTC)