Durability

[Jarulf]

Hail Conner,

I recall Jarulf posting this a while back: run a search on an old forum, and you've decent chances. I know he linked me to it all when I was researching the workings of Fend, so if you cannot find it searching for Durability, try searching for that ;)

Here is the link to my post long ago about durability losses.


EDIT: Bah, forgot to paste the actual linkl :)

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/messag...ageid=973533135


It will also explain some what those numbers Isolde wrote for various armor types actually mean. Ther is basically a 1 in *number* chance that that item is picked. So a higher value means less chance to be picked. It doesn't transform into an exact probability relation though, well see my post for exact percentages :)

Either I goofed horribly on the percentag chance for a wqeapon when you attack or they changed it since then (I think I wrote my stuff arround 1.04).

Finally, I have no idea if it still applies that some attacj types such as LA will never end up checking for durability losses. Unless they have messaed arround and moved the check, it SHOULD still apply. That is, any attack that does not trigger Amp Damage or Thorns, will not trigger durability loss either Since appearantly Smite take durability from the wepaon now, it might have been changed though. What do I know.

Have fun!


Edit: One way to find all such old posts of "information" or discovery" is to go through the news archieve. Start arround june or july 2000 and work yourself forward. The above one was linked from the April 2001 news.

Bolty did a VERY good summary of all such information posts/threads in the news each month so most such posts will be mentioned in those news pages. I simply wne through each month searching for "durability" until I found this one mentioned. Going through them also gives a nice summary of the time and order stuff in the game was figured out so to speak. Can be an interesting reading at times.

The news archieve can be found here (or from the menu on the left on the D2 page):

http://www.lurkerlounge.com/diablo2/news/

I use it all the time when I want to find my old posts
:D