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Originally Posted by LawZ
I was waiting for the expert to comment...! 
Well i guess they assumed HC = 100% (absolute) for all players in order (maybe) to avoid the calculation "HC - Evasion" and alleviate the server computational burden? That could be a rational explanation, couldnt it?
And since they didnt know what to do with HC stat, they replaced it with Critical Damage. |
If the only rational was reducing computational burden then we'll be back to playing pong at the next update. :P
Looking for values in a list/array is typically alot faster than calculating values. A million value long list of numbers can be precalculated and searched through in fractions of a second, typically much faster than doing any serious math operations. All of this seems to come to very little difference though since the RNG is changing.
My question: Should hit chance be changed to critical damage (as on test server) or be used as a method to shift the mean damage from normal hits? Whichever is best suited to the game mechanics should be chosen and code can be written and optimised to work within the constraints of the server.