Focus Effect - > Max Level effectiveness reduction question

[bad_captain]

Also, I believe the calculation for post max level decay is incorrect. It is my understanding that a 30% focus effect that falls off 5% per level would completely decay in 6 levels. 95% of focus effects fall off 5% per level, even ones that have a focus effect of 75%, with a few at 10%. It appears the code only takes off 5% of 30, which would be 28.5% after 1 level, and would take 20 levels to completely fall off.

int lvlModifier = 100;

.....


case SE_LimitMaxLevel:{
			int lvldiff = (spell.classes[(GetClass()%16) - 1]) - focus_spell.base[i];

			if(lvldiff > 0){ //every level over cap reduces the effect by spell.base2[i] percent
				lvlModifier -= spell.base2[i]*lvldiff;
				if(lvlModifier < 1)
					return 0;
			}
			break;
		}

....

return(value*lvlModifier/100);

So currently, for a 1 level difference, lvlModifier -= spell.base2[i]*lvldiff would be 100 -= 5*1 which equals 95. Then, it would return 30 * 95/100, which would be 28.5.

It seems like it should be

int lvlModifier = 0;

.....

case SE_LimitMaxLevel:{
			int lvldiff = (spell.classes[(GetClass()%16) - 1]) - focus_spell.base[i];

			if(lvldiff > 0){ //every level over cap reduces the effect by spell.base2[i] percent
				lvlModifier = spell.base2[i]*lvldiff;  //%perLvl * lvls
				if(lvlModifier >= value)  //too many lvl diff. - effectiveness now 0
					return 0;
			}
			break;
		}

....

return(value - lvlModifier);

So with this code, for a 1 level difference, lvlModifier = spell.base2[i]*lvldiff would be lvlModifier = 5*1 which equals 5. Then, it would return 30 - 5, which would be 25, leaving it at 25% focus effect.

Unless I am incorrect in my understanding of how the falloff works, then I guess disregard. But as a Magician summoning focus effect items all the time, I'm almost certain I remember talk of focus effects losing effectiveness after 4-5 levels.

[gaeorn]

Do we know if the 5% reduction after max level is 5% of the total or 5% of the reduction? In other words, the correct formula would be what I use for one of the following two examples:

lets assume the following
max focus = 30%
reduction after max level = 5%
current level is five levels over max

option one:
the reduction is a direct reduction of the focus percentage
0.30 - (5 * 0.05) = 0.05
resulting focus is 5%

option two:
the reduction is a percentage of the focus that is reduced
0.30 - (5 * 0.05 * 0.30) = 0.225
resulting focus is 22.5%

I never found that information referenced anywhere but perhaps someone else knows. This should also be pretty easy to test on live.

[bad_captain]

Hmm.. It appears I was wrong. I did some more reasearch and found two examples of charts showing the reduction per level, and it was 1.5 per level. (i.e. 30 * 5% per level) It just seems off that focus effects are still 50% effective after 10 levels. Reminds me how long ago I played on live.

[gaeorn]

Originally Posted by bad_captain

Hmm.. It appears I was wrong. I did some more reasearch and found two examples of charts showing the reduction per level, and it was 1.5 per level. (i.e. 30 * 5% per level) It just seems off that focus effects are still 50% effective after 10 levels. Reminds me how long ago I played on live.

I suppose it could be argued either way. The biggest reason why I would agree with the smaller reduction is back when I played live, there were items that were difficult for a level 65 (max back then) to obtain that had a 25% focus with 5% reduction per level. That would make them worthless to a level 65 if it were the larger reduction per level. In any case, I'm glad the correct formula was confirmed.