Iron Wolves and weapons

[Ruvanal]

Zath's Complete v1.10 Hireling/Merc Stats (Warning: Bandwidth Hog) shows, for Normal - Act 3 Fire Wolves: Atk Freq 10, Inf Freq 60, FB Freq 30.  For Normal - Act 3 Lightning mercs, the table shows Atk Freq 10, CB Freq 60, LN Freq 30.  One would infer that these are percentages, and that Iron Wolves can be expected to swing their swords 10% of the time.  The numbers for the Cold Wolves raise doubts in my mind, however:  Atk Freq 10, GS Freq 60, FA Freq 1000, IB Freq 240.  One would infer that Frozen Armor is "always on," but the Ice Blast figure doesn't fit with the percentage model.

They are not percentages. They are relative frequency values. The standard form of this throughout the game is frequency/(sum of possible frequencies)

Example 1
Act 3 Fire Wolves:
Atk Freq 10, 10/(10+60+30)=10%
Inf Freq 60, 60/(10+60+30)=60%
FB Freq 30, 30/(10+60+30)=30%

Example 2a
Cold Iron Wolf (does not have Frozen armor active)
Atk Freq 10, 10/(10+60+1000+240)= 0.76%
GS Freq 60, 60/1310= 4.58%
FA Freq 1000, 1000/1310= 76.34%
IB Freq 240, 240/1310= 18.32%

Example 2b
Cold Iron Wolf (Frozen armor active)
Atk Freq 10, 10/(10+60+240)= 3.23%
GS Freq 60, 60/310= 19.35%
FA Freq null
IB Freq 240, 240/310= 77.42%
There is a setting in skills.txt (aitype) that is used to make the game aware that some skills should not be activated if they are already running.