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HomardSun 16-Sep-12 09:19 AM
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#47169, "Luck!"


          

Discussion of the mysterious luck stat has me wondering if the following things affect this little-understood facet of the game:
Race
Class
Cabal

Also, does the luck stat affect any of the following things:
Skill learning speed
Fleeing successfully
Teleporting into aggro mobs
Escaping quicksand

I think that part of the problem is separating a player's luck vs. a character's luck.

Thanks for any clarifications.

  

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Reply RE: Luck!, Daevryn, 16-Sep-12 03:14 PM, #1
     Reply Not assassinate? n/t, Lhydia, 16-Sep-12 03:38 PM, #2
     Reply Yes, lets go there. Assassinate, Cleave, or PWK? Affect..., Gaplemo, 16-Sep-12 05:21 PM, #4
     Reply Cleave can give 'lucky' in the echoes, KaguMaru, 12-Oct-13 06:03 AM, #10
     Reply RE: Not assassinate? n/t, Daevryn, 16-Sep-12 07:42 PM, #6
          Reply Thanks for the clarification., Gaplemo, 16-Sep-12 09:19 PM, #7
     Reply RE: Luck, Straklaw, 16-Sep-12 04:06 PM, #3
     Reply Thank you, and good idea with the wiki, Straklaw. n/t, Homard, 16-Sep-12 06:33 PM, #5
     Reply Clarification?, Valkenar, 16-Sep-12 10:32 PM, #8
     Reply RE: Clarification?, Daevryn, 17-Sep-12 08:22 AM, #9
     Reply An Imm said over he Newbie that race mattered. They sai..., Frequentplayer, 12-Oct-13 11:25 AM, #11

DaevrynSun 16-Sep-12 03:14 PM
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#47175, "RE: Luck!"
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>Also, does the luck stat affect any of the following things:
>Skill learning speed
>Fleeing successfully
>Teleporting into aggro mobs
>Escaping quicksand

None of the above.

Here's the full list:

1) It has a small effect on saves (to give you some idea, INT and WIS each have as big or greater effect).

2) Various combat skills where you see some kind of 'critical success' echo, generally with 'luck' somewhere in it. Pincer, charge, etc.

3) Gambling.

  

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LhydiaSun 16-Sep-12 03:38 PM
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#47176, "Not assassinate? n/t"
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gr

  

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GaplemoSun 16-Sep-12 05:21 PM
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#47179, "Yes, lets go there. Assassinate, Cleave, or PWK? Affect..."
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nt

  

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KaguMaruSat 12-Oct-13 06:03 AM
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#52107, "Cleave can give 'lucky' in the echoes"
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But I don't think it's related to the instakill chance

  

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DaevrynSun 16-Sep-12 07:42 PM
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#47181, "RE: Not assassinate? n/t"
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Have you ever seen a 'lucky assassinate' echo?

Then no.

  

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GaplemoSun 16-Sep-12 09:19 PM
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#47182, "Thanks for the clarification."
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Guess it would be cleave only under those circumstances. Lucky edge a must have for APs now!

  

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StraklawSun 16-Sep-12 04:06 PM
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#47177, "RE: Luck"
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Just because I know I've seen this asked and answered repeatedly, I give you the official Wiki!

http://www.carrionfields.net/CFwiki/Luck

Now anyone can answer the luck question, and have the full backing of Daevryn-level certainty!

(I did add two more combat-luck skills I'm pretty certain are affected in their minor way)

  

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HomardSun 16-Sep-12 06:33 PM
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#47180, "Thank you, and good idea with the wiki, Straklaw. n/t"
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n/t

  

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ValkenarSun 16-Sep-12 10:32 PM
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#47184, "Clarification?"
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>1) It has a small effect on saves (to give you some idea, INT
>and WIS each have as big or greater effect).

You've mentioned before that not maxing your int/wis isn't a very good strategy because it'll mess up your saves. At the risk of nitpicking, when you say "as big" it sounds like the effect of luck is equally important as significant as at least one of int or wis. That would make luck fairly important.

Or do you mean something like:
In most cases, int and wis have a much greater effect than luck
In a few cases, int and wis and luck all have an equally tiny effect

Just trying to be clear, since people love to exaggerate the impact of luck.

  

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DaevrynMon 17-Sep-12 08:22 AM
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#47185, "RE: Clarification?"
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Luck can potentially be as big as Int or Wis; that being said, the spread of PC luck stats is much smaller than the spread of PC Int or Wis stats.

  

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FrequentplayerSat 12-Oct-13 11:25 AM
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#52110, "An Imm said over he Newbie that race mattered. They sai..."
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...the races that tended to have the poorer attributes. They didn't clarify what that meant though.

  

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