Apply Minimum Spell Hit Chance

[tegstewart]

We're correctly reducing spell damage when spell hit chance is below the 55% minimum, but were then incorrectly using the <55% hit chance.

Only having a 40% chance to hit Gjal with a spell and then also having damage reduced by 64.5% on top of that is just mean.

[tegstewart]

Bah, Tolakram's notes seem to indicate that 55% claim is flat out not true. Blech.

I know other private servers went with the 55% cap, so I'm now wondering if this should be a server property, disabled by default.

[NetDwarf]

Would that mean that a spell would resist with a chance of maxResistChance at most for any mob (even a dragon) as the name suggests?

The double disadvantage against high level mobs is intended. I can say that it is at least not totally un-livelike for the most common cases. It might even be too weak for very high mobs like dragons as even a group of players were mostly unable to hit these with spells without pet spam.

[tegstewart]

I'll close this, then. Wish I'd noticed Tolak's notes before PRing, but they're in a different part of the file than I was working on.

It's not really a problem, anyway. People can reduce or remove the damage penalty via existing server properties anyway.