Avoidence %
 

Ariobeth Persona window and a few others had % avoidence prior to EoF. Now I am having a hard time locating this Dynamic Game Data tag... it seems maybe Sony didn't add a new tag but maybe recycled it and dumped the stupid raw number to us in the old useful dynamic game data holding bin.

Basically if there is diminishing returns I don't want a raw number... I want the IMPACT on the effect... the % avoidence... even if it is against even con non heroic mobs.

I have a small UI mod written back up for the player window to display a few additional pieces of info and this is the LAST piece I want added. If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.

I'd really like to know as well... I'd like to make or add to an existing ui thing the %'s for BOTH mitigation and avoidance... so I can quickly see when they drop in a fight. Would be useful as a tank.

*Edit*
One thing I noticed in the gamedata...

There's entries for Defense_Mitigation and Defense_MitigationPercent.. but for avoidance it's just Defense_Avoidance and then the Base, Block, Parry, Deflection sub sections.

There is, however, just a simple "Defense".. so gamedata.stats.defense must return something... but it can't be just plugged in like the mitigationpercent, so it's gotta be something else. Can't seem to get a value out of it though.

yes Mitigation has a percent... as you said Defense_MitigationPercent Avoidence does not... it USED to be a percent... and now it's a raw number... it never changed names of the field SOE just changed what the field pulled from the server.

I tried Defense_AvoidencePercent and it failed.

HOWEVER there are

These I believe all come back as %

ALSO... when you inspect a player it comes back as a % for avoidence (yeah... lets hear it for SOE consistency! WOOHOO!)

The code there goes like this

Obviously that wierd code = bring up avoidence for whomever I inspected... which is useless to me in that form.

So it has to be possible... right now I think the best bet is adding the % together for base + block + deflect + parry and saying that is the % needed.

At that point I could log in a toon to inspect me on a 2nd PC and see if the number there matched what is in my UI component on the first PC.

However... I don't know how to add dynamic data together.... and I don't have time in combat to sit there doing 4 numbers with 3 digits added together... it's a bit much to handle... and more than I want to put on my screen as well.

Can anyone tell me how to add numbers from dynamic data together?

hate to burst your bubbles butsoe did that on purpose and changed the avoidance % to a numeric value, which it should be like mit. where u can do either. for now u just have to inspect yourself by right clicking your player window...or hover your mouse over your avoidance. they should make it percent/numbers,hopefully they will do that

cannot add the nubmers together fyi

Yeah that's what I thought... SOE changed the value and never added in a way to retrieve the old style #.

I am sure you CAN add the numbers together... but it would probably require outbutting the dynamic data to another file and having a routine that would add that file's contents together and re-output it to another file and then have the XML file grab a piece of data from that last file... and it would have to happen constantly... which for all intensive purposes means it can't be done because realistically it would be a huge waste of time and energy to get there.

I mean I saw a mod a long time ago that helped you calculate DPS by letting you have like a calculator interface inside EQ2... so if you had the time, knowledge, and energy to do it... I am sure it's possible... but I do not have those things :-(

P.S. Familiar with your work... good stuff.

ahh thanks

I might look into that if it wont be fixed in GU30. Working on a guild window as of right now...ill see after im done

drago

Well, the way avoidance is added together is as follows:

Base %
+
Block or Deflection % x (1 - Base %)
+
Parry % x (1 - Base% - (Block or Deflection % x (1 - Base %)))

Basically.. you take the base (say, 40%). Then you add the percentage given from block or deflection on what remains (100% - 40% = 60%). So if you have 40% Deflection for example, you'd add 40% x 60% = 24%.
Then Parry is the remainder of all that (100% - 40% - 24% = 36%). So if you had 10% Parry, you are looking at adding 3.6%.

That's why 40% Base plus 40% Deflection plus 10% Parry comes out to 67.6% Avoidance, not 90%...

So is their a way to use that formula on a screen? I know how to use xml tags and modify the UI but not how to use calculations in XML.

I don't think you can add it, because of the % it puts on the end.

but to add the numbers if you can u just add the LocalText of the text object. Like;
(base.localtext + (block.localtext * (1 - base.localtext))) + (parry.localtext * (1 - base.localtext - (block.localtext * (1 - base.localtezt))))

/boggle my head hurts bye!