I don’t believe psychology is a science. It does not follow the basic tenets of what makes science science…
To be honest I couldn’t even read your buzzword filled diatribe.
Testable data is what makes science… your feelings about whether or not luck is working are not testable.
It is true people will sell their luck trophies or stop playing entirely without seeing a regular dopamine hit from that scarab. That does not mean luck is not working.
A test where someone shows that scarabs drop at such a small rate that statistically luck can’t be working would prove luck is not working… I would accept that as evidence… but not feelings.
I have full luck set (only 600 gs), something i can get trophy mat like (armor, engineering, stacked desk,…) but the problem is that the golden scarab now is so hard to get than before. Usually i can get 2-3 from acid pools, 1-2 from brimstone chest, but now i have days none.
I have been having zero drops of scarabs for a few days with full majors/bags/lvl 600 luck chiten farm set. I was previously getting 2-5 a day from everything. The only thing that is different is that I started using Winter event transmog skins. I went back to the default skins and it seems to have gone back to getting normal loot but I don’t have enough data to back it up yet.
I just made a own topic for that. Since I used the full luck set from the winter event, I didnt get any trophy mats and no scarabs for a lot of runs.
Now I made 4 runs with just 2 of the 5 set pieces and I got 2 trophy mats and Scarabs…
Its so annoying, that all around luck is so intransparent…
I am a 100% behind everything you have said, but isn’t the whole “lucksafe” some hidden “server side adjustment” that we don’t know exactly what it is? i.e. “makes sure the luck % modifiers attached to a roll scale in a controlled manner”
Your answer will illuminate why you had issues with Luck gear. Using Pristine Pearls versus some other gem will not change your damage output, merely your damage received. If you struggled to damage mobs during the WTs, I would recommend using weapons that can attack the mobs from range, as that will allow you to damage the mobs while not being stuck in the melee mob that the WTs often have.
They changed “LuckSafe:True” and "LuckSafe:False in the datamine to “RollBonusSetting:ClampMax” and “RollBonusSetting:AddToRoll”
So, Lucksafe is now “ClampMax”. What that means in practice is that your luck bonus is added to the floor of the roll, but not the ceiling, whereas with AddToRoll, its both floor and ceiling.
i.e, 50% luck (5000 pts) changes a roll to be from 5001-100000 for “ClampMax” (formerly Lucksafe rolls) and is 5001-105000 for AddToRoll tables.
That causes the odds on ClampMax tables to not move very much at all (still some, just, not very much) - unless, of course, you are fishing, because you have Tremendous amounts of luck from all sources.
100% don’t beleive luck works, I have not bothered with any lucky except bags but everyone rolls luck bags, and I have found my luck is no different than anyone else
Like the “Watermark” system, maybe AGS needs to add a “luck meter” to our character stats. When we put the cursor over our Gear Score, we can see a list of calculated protections based on what we are wearing (both physical and elemental resistances). Maybe at the bottom of that list, AGS can add an estimation of how much “luck” we are supposed to be getting so we can adjust it (increase or decrease based on what we are trying to do). Then we can see if its really working as intended.
Please, use New World Guide to discover what actually provides what amount of luck. Single Major Luck Trophy is nothing more than just 3 pearls in terms of luck. Being PvP flagged and having full luck set is much more important for maxing luck values and, to be honest, there’s not much need to go beyond minor luck trophies
