Melee Accuracy?
 

I've been out of the loop a while but I recently started rebuilding my server and playing some newbs from the beginning with some friends and I've noticed that melee accuracy is a joke... Was never a problem on the previous builds (uhh 944 I think might have been the last I used? Not really sure) but the latest March one and the June releases have both had the same problem... basically everything auto-attack related for melee hits maybe 1 in 30 tries on anything even vaguely close to my level... within 3 or 4 levels of me that is. Not just a 'I'm not hitting as often as I should" type of thing but a true not even close to accurate... This has disadvantages playing a melee obviously, but also makes casting as a caster kind of insane since you can cast through some 4 or 5 mobs in the low levels because none of them are hitting you anyway...

Was wondering if this is a known issue (didn't see anything on the bug reports nor on searches) or if anyone knows if perhaps I fubar`ed something during installation that may have had this as a result (I downloaded the pre-built windows version, and I assume it's in the code not in the database?)

Any info would be nice, Thanks

PS This was a basically out of the box installation the only things I've changed were a double exp rule and thats about it... also using it on GM accounts if that matters although as little as I tested suggests it happens on non GM accounts as well. Also at low levels I was doing approximately half the damage in terms of max damage as I should have been doing... I.e. when using a 5 damage weapon I'd do 3-5 damage instead of 6-10 as it should be, this continued until level 6 where it 'magically' became fixed. Tested it with my monk and a shaman, monk used hand to hand as well as 1h blunt shaman used piercing, same results across both.

Yeah i've noticed this too. Also, mobs that bash and kick do it at a rapid rate, chain-bashing sucks for casters pretty bad.

I don't believe melee accuracy equations changed since then.. though the formulas skew quickly if you start stacking stats on either the attacker or defender.

Mobs also use bash/kick whenever the cooldown is up.. I believe it's about 4-5 seconds, perhaps it could be upped a bit I dunno I'm not positive it matches client side timers.

yes i have noticed that DEX and STR are HEAVILY affected when they are pass 100 mark

me and friend started 2 chars Ranger and Bard.

My ranger: 100 STR, 75 DEX
His Bard: 110 DEX, 65 STR
indetical weapons
both char lev 8
both chars have maxed skills

His bard hits all the time - well i say 75%+ but he does about 1/2 of my dmg per hit, while my ranger MISSES 60% of the time, but hits land for close to full dmg all the time.