Heiho,
as maybe already known I'm not a big guy in formulas, and I still refuse to do any modding. So with most of the infos referring to such stuff I do only the transfer between two german sites and two english sites, and any awards directed to me are in fact adressed wrong^^
black_spy, who belongs to the few people I tend to believe anything they say about the game, had tested the behaviour of CB during the beta and just recently confirmed the testings referring to the final. He is member of d2wissen.de staff, a site designed by Atair to bring techical details of our beloved game to those who can't or don't want to browse several english boards to collect tidbits of information here and there.
The modded scenario included IIRC gear with 100%CB Chance, but only enough physical damage to tear down not all of the HPs of the attacked monster, which was also set to 0%physical resistance. No other damage sources, and set to 1ppl.
With this setting it is possible to kill the attacked monster with a single hit, and this would be impossible if the CB check would be done at last in the order.
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insert scenario
1) modded Fallens with exactly 103 life in 8ppl game
2) weapon doing 100-101 damage -> they'll all survive the first punch
3) add 100% Chance of doing CB (without further damage sources) -> every Fallen dies from the first punch
With CB tearing down ~5.5% of the HPs (5HPs absolute with full HPs) in 8ppl.
If CB would work _after_ the 'real' physical damage application it wouldn't have any effect here because of the truncating of numbers ingame.
The setting was indeed slightly more complicated than I remembered, because the scenario included also the new scaling procedure of CB along with the player number.
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I myself couldn't do such testing, because without modding I can reach 100%CB Chance, but I couldn't avoid to do other damage as well, and the monster HPs and resistancies are too various for exact tests.
as maybe already known I'm not a big guy in formulas, and I still refuse to do any modding. So with most of the infos referring to such stuff I do only the transfer between two german sites and two english sites, and any awards directed to me are in fact adressed wrong^^
black_spy, who belongs to the few people I tend to believe anything they say about the game, had tested the behaviour of CB during the beta and just recently confirmed the testings referring to the final. He is member of d2wissen.de staff, a site designed by Atair to bring techical details of our beloved game to those who can't or don't want to browse several english boards to collect tidbits of information here and there.
The modded scenario included IIRC gear with 100%CB Chance, but only enough physical damage to tear down not all of the HPs of the attacked monster, which was also set to 0%physical resistance. No other damage sources, and set to 1ppl.
With this setting it is possible to kill the attacked monster with a single hit, and this would be impossible if the CB check would be done at last in the order.
<edit>
insert scenario
1) modded Fallens with exactly 103 life in 8ppl game
2) weapon doing 100-101 damage -> they'll all survive the first punch
3) add 100% Chance of doing CB (without further damage sources) -> every Fallen dies from the first punch
With CB tearing down ~5.5% of the HPs (5HPs absolute with full HPs) in 8ppl.
If CB would work _after_ the 'real' physical damage application it wouldn't have any effect here because of the truncating of numbers ingame.
The setting was indeed slightly more complicated than I remembered, because the scenario included also the new scaling procedure of CB along with the player number.
</edit>
I myself couldn't do such testing, because without modding I can reach 100%CB Chance, but I couldn't avoid to do other damage as well, and the monster HPs and resistancies are too various for exact tests.