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Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: March 27th, 2013, 1:35 am
by Tessorak
Every time an attack misses I just want to strangle a Murloc.. so freakin annoying.. #pokemonproblems #damnyounursejoy

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: March 27th, 2013, 3:00 am
by Waflob
The corollary to this is when you wonder how often the trainer pet's 25% chance to put my pet to sleep procs. Seems a lot more than 1 in 4.

It's like in the films, when 1 in a million odds work 9 times out of 10 :-)

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: March 27th, 2013, 10:15 am
by Keltoroq
But it sure is a great feeling when a loosing battle becomes a win when their pets fail haha

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: March 27th, 2013, 11:40 am
by Stabya
Nothing screams "DOH" more than missing on an attack that says it always hits if the aura you have up is up.

I.e. Nocturnal Strike on a non elemental during darkness

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: March 28th, 2013, 2:31 am
by Waflob
The example given was almost certainly dodged.

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: April 1st, 2013, 5:45 pm
by Nightshade
Darkmoon Eye's "Laser" ability "It will never miss" enemy pet /dodge... THAT'S THE SAME THING!!!

NEVER MISS = WILL ALWAYS HIT, not dodged, not missed, not evaded, nothing, IT-WILL-ALWAYS-HIT.

Made a suggestion to blizzard through their GM thing to change the wording on the freaking skill :evil:

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: April 2nd, 2013, 4:48 am
by Waflob
I know what you mean and it does seem daft, but apparently, there is a difference between missing and being dodged.
The "Always hits" just means that there is no roll for hitting, but the dodge chance is still there. Whether that's a bug or not, I don't know.

Re: Attacks missing during pet battles..

Posted: April 2nd, 2013, 9:07 am
by Letifa
The updated 5.3 patch notes made my day. :D

-Hit Chance is now displayed for all abilities.
-Abilities no longer have a base chance to miss or be dodged by opposing pets of the same level.
-Reduced the chance to miss when fighting higher-level opponents from 5% per level to 2% per level.

This means when fighting lvl 25 vs lvl 25 there's no longer a base chance to miss with normal abilities. They will show the % chance to miss on skills like moth balls or moth dust (high chance to miss stated in tooltip), and on top of that lower level pets not longer miss a ton which will boost pet leveling a bit! Huzzah!

And the best part of it all came a bit lower down the lines:
-Ethereal Soul-Trader has been returned to his original, larger size. :mrgreen: