Luck

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Luck is an item property found on various equippable items. It affects both the chance of there being a higher volume of loot dropped on slain monsters as well as the chance that the properties on said loot will be of higher intensity.

Equippables

Armor, shields, or weapons can be made from or enhanced by golden ingots, spined leather, yellow dragon scales, or oak boards, depending on the type of item, in order to gain or increase the Luck property. Using golden ingots, spined leather, or oak boards will either give an item the Luck property with a default value of 40, or, if the item already possesses the Luck property, will increase it by 40. Yellow dragon scales can be used to craft pieces of Dragon Armor, each with a default amount of 20 Luck.

The types of items that can be crafted or enhanced with the Luck property are listed below, categorized by material type:

Armor, shields, and weapons can spawn on monster corpses with the Luck property, with values up to and including 100. These items can then be enhanced with golden ingots, spined leather, or oak boards, depending on their material type, thus allowing them to have up to 140 Luck.

Other Sources

The 10th Anniversary Sculpture, when double-clicked while in a character's backpack or locked down in a house, grants a character a base bonus of 200 Luck plus 50 Luck for each year in the age of the account that the character is on.

A minor bonus can be obtained from the Sphynx located in the Forgotten Pyramid. A player can pay the Sphynx 5000 gold to "tell them their fortune." If, after giving the Sphynx the 5000 gold, it responds "Fate smiles upon you this day." your character will receive a 24-hour boost of from 1 to 80 Luck.

The Bushido ability Perfection also results in a Luck bonus. A character with at least 50 Bushido skill can Honor a creature and then attempt to hit that creature as many times as they can. The character receives a score based on the number of consecutive hits achieved and is then rewarded a Luck bonus equal to ten percent of the square of this score. The maximum score is 100, thus the maximum Luck bonus from Perfection is 100^2 x 0.1 = 1000.

Artifacts

Some artifacts and other items spawn, have spawned, or can be crafted, with a default amount of Luck on them.

Event Items

In the past, several items stemming from the Event Moderator system have possessed the Luck property.

  • Exceptional Robe Crafted by Relvinian (Lost) - Luck 250
  • Orc Chieftain Helm (Original and Replica) - Luck 100
  • The Protector - Luck 100
  • Royal Guard Boots - Luck 50
  • Royal Guard Survival Knife - Luck 100
    • Enhanced Version - Luck 140
  • The Wild's Call - Luck 100

Affect on Loot

Normal loot other than gold that spawns on creature corpses is generated upon the death of the creature, not before. Upon the death of the creature, a roll is made against the Luck of the character who did the most damage. If the roll is successful, both the amount of loot and the intensity of the properties on that loot are increased, after which the loot spawns. This applies to all loot that is spawned, even that which is given to other attackers in their own instanced corpses; the top attacker's Luck applies to everyone.

Power Scrolls that drop from Champion Spawns are not affected whatsoever by the Luck of any attacker, and are generated and distributed randomly amongst all players that receive looting rights.

(Editor: The following is not really true anymore. The Gauntlet now uses the Treasure of Tokuno points system, so the following info is probably only a shadow of the truth, if that. This will be changed in the future.)

When a boss dies in the Doom Gauntlet there is a certain chance that an artifact will be created. This chance is influenced by the Luck of the top attacker, and can be derived from the following equation:

  • C - ((sqr(L) * C) / 100) = NC
    • C = Chance (1 in C) for an Artifact to be Created
    • L = Luck of the Top Attacker
    • NC = New Chance for an Artifact to be Created

Example: Suppose there is a 1 in 20 (5%) chance that an artifact will be generated when the Dark Father is killed, and the Luck of the top attacker is 900.

  • 20 - ((sqr(900) * 20) / 100) = NC
  • 20 - ((30 * 20) / 100) = NC
  • 20 - (600 / 100) = NC
  • 20 - 6 = NC
  • 14 = NC

The new chance for an artifact to be generated is 1 in 14 (~7.1%). If, based on this new percentage chance, an artifact is actually generated, it is then distributed randomly amongst all players that receive looting rights.

The Math

Luck is evaluated in the context of a logarithmic equation, which is frequently referred to colloquially as "diminishing returns." It is true that your Luck chance will increase the more Luck you have, but it is not a linear increase. The more Luck you have, the more you need to add to it to experience increases in your Luck chance.

  • Example: To have a 10% Luck chance, you need approximately 63.1 Luck. One would assume that to have a 20% Luck chance, you would need 63.1 x 2 = 126.2 Luck, but this is not the case. To have a 20% Luck chance you would actually need approximately 219.7 Luck.

Luck's logarithmic equation is as follows:

  • L = C^1.8
    • L = Luck Required
    • C = Chance to Raise Loot Level.

One can substitute the percentage chance that they wish to achieve for the variable C, and thus derive the amount of Luck required to achieve it, L.

  • Example: You wish to obtain a 50% chance of more and greater loot. The Luck required to do this is 50^1.8 = 1143.2626298183158660067558096781, or, rounding up because Luck only exists in integer amounts, 1144.

If one wishes to derive the chance to raise loot level, C, that they have based on their current level of Luck, L, the equation can be solved for C as follows:

  • L = C^1.8
  • ln(L) = 1.8 * ln(C)
  • ln(L) / 1.8 = ln(C)
  • e^(ln(L) / 1.8) = e^ln(C)
  • e^(ln(L) / 1.8) = C
    • Where e = 2.71828 18284 59045 23536...

With access to a scientific calculator, this can easily be solved.

  • Example: Your suit gives you 1500 Luck. Your chance to get more and greater loot is e^(ln(1500) / 1.8) = 58.1426931, or approximately 58.14%.

Maximum Luck

There is frequently much debate and mathematical figuring going on within the community about what the maximum attainable Luck is for a single character. This debate is usually reignited every time a new item is introduced into the game that has a high amount of Luck on it, and results in several different answers, depending on whether or not you include event items, Luck granted by the 10th Anniversary Sculpture, samurai Perfection, etcetera.

Just counting items that currently spawn in-game or are relatively (or in the case of the Luckblade, theoretically) easy to obtain, the current maximum Luck that a single character can achieve is as follows:

If you replace the Robe of the Eclipse with now the lost Exceptional Robe Crafted by Relvinian, and also equip a pair of Royal Guard Boots, the total becomes:

  • Total: 150 + 200 + 200 + 140 + 140 + 140 + 160 + 80 + 400 + 250 + 50 = 1910 Luck

If you then add in the Luck bonus from the 10th Anniversary Sculpture, which is a base 200 Luck plus 50 Luck for each year of account age, thus resulting in a maximum attainable amount of 750 Luck (on an 11-year-old account), the total becomes:

  • Total: 150 + 200 + 200 + 140 + 140 + 140 + 160 + 80 + 400 + 250 + 50 + 750 = 2660 Luck

If you then add in the maximum Luck bonus obtainable from the Sphynx, the total becomes:

  • Total: 150 + 200 + 200 + 140 + 140 + 140 + 160 + 80 + 400 + 250 + 50 + 750 + 80 = 2740 Luck

Finally, if you possess the Bushido skill, Honor your intended target, and then achieve Perfection, you will be granted a 1000 Luck bonus. Adding this to what we already have, the total becomes:

  • Total: 150 + 200 + 200 + 140 + 140 + 140 + 160 + 80 + 400 + 250 + 50 + 750 + 80 + 1000 = 3740 Luck

If you take away the Exceptional Robe Crafted by Relvinian, which can no longer be obtained by anyone as it no longer exists in the game, and reintroduce the Robe of the Eclipse in its stead, you come out with:

  • Total: 150 + 200 + 200 + 140 + 140 + 140 + 160 + 80 + 400 + 95 + 50 + 750 + 80 + 1000 = 3585 Luck

Logically, however, no matter how high the Maximum Luck number grows over time as new and better items and abilities are introduced into the game, the highest Luck that will ever be useful will be the amount of Luck required to have a 100% chance of more and greater loot. By the Luck equation in the last section, we can easily determine this number:

  • L = 100^1.8 = 3981.0717055349725077025230508775, or, rounding up because Luck exists only in integer amounts, 3981 Luck.

See Also


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