Mob difficulty isnt scaling with character

[demonstar55]

Originally Posted by cavedude

As for combat, my own parses has shown there is a considerable difference between PC Live and EQMac. Basically, on EQMac the NPCs hit you more often and harder at all levels using toons with comparable stats/equipment. Live is what we are emulating, so that is going to be our model.

That is because AC Soft Caps changed with the release of SoD I believe. Plate went from 300 AC Soft Cap to 600 and the over cap return was tweaked for all classes too.

[Cowboy6534]

I found the problem last night and I no longer have this problem on my server. parse graphs for my server reflect what I have posted for live and eqmac...

[Caryatis]

So the options were completely rewrite the emu source or spend a night making changes locally? lol

[cavedude]

Originally Posted by Cowboy6534

I found the problem last night and I no longer have this problem on my server. parse graphs for my server reflect what I have posted for live and eqmac...

Would you mind sharing what you did? Was it rules as I suggested?

[Cowboy6534]

It was a rewrite of the following code that is found in

if(RuleB(Combat, UseIntervalAC))
damage = (max_dmg+eleBane);
else
damage = MakeRandomInt((min_dmg+eleBane),(max_dmg+eleBane)) ;

and not a changing of settings.

Yes cavedude I will share the code with you. I want to make a special case for raid mobs or if you want to do that after I show you the code thats fine. A column to npc_types called isRaid will need to be added to check and see if its a raid target because they operate differently as far as this goes than normal mobs.

Edit: since you know all of the eqemu code better than me you might see a better way to check for raid target than what I suggested with a new column. I was thinking along the lines of the new isQuest column.