26/03/2016 UPDATE:
Ok, I made another bunch of tests... this time the discoveries are HUGE!
I did 3 different kinds of tests:
the first one was to determine whether DP affected Accuracy or not;
the second one was to determine whether level difference affected Accuracy or not;
the third one was to determine a (rough) estimate on how damage is affected by DP and AP.
Let's get rolling!
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First Type: does DP affect Accuracy?
Short answer: YES! To my disbelief, DP does indeed affect Accuracy. This very fact might make a lot of assumptions that I made in my very first post here kind of pointless.
Long answer: details below.
These tests were performed with my character having 0 Accuracy (I was only holding an Ultimate Styd Bow, with no +Accuracy items), a lv51
Ranger with maxed Bow Mastery. My opponent was a lv50
Tamer with no DP/Evasion passive skills. Each test was performed with different values of DP from his side, while my Accuracy remained constant. Like before, I shot 100 arrows and we took note of how many hit the target.
test#1: DP=95 (my AP=38, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 63. Hit rate: 63%
test#2: DP=0 (my AP=38, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 100. Hit rate: 100%. Comment: who would have thought this? With 0 DP, and 0 Accuracy, all your attacks are gonna hit your opponent.
test#3: DP=44 (my AP=38, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 79. Hit rate: 79%. Comment: I tried to draw a middle line and made my opponent get as close as possible to 47DP (which was half of his original DP), to see how much the results differed. The outcome was that, by (almost) halving the DP, your misses will (almost) be halved (37 misses with 95DP, 21misses with 44DP).
test#4: DP=69 (my AP=38, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 67. Hit rate: 67%. Comment: like #3, we tried to draw a middle line and made my opponent get as close as possible to 70 DP ((95+44)/2), to confirm what I assumed in test #3. The outcome was that I was mostly correct: the number of (expected) misses was ((37+21)/2)=29, which is close to the 33 misses that I got.
test#5: DP=26 (my AP=38, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 98. Hit rate: 98%. Comment: like #4, we tried to draw a middle line "on the other side" of the original line. I had my opponent get as close as possible to 22 DP ((44+0)/2). The outcome was odd - so odd that it made me do #6 and #5bis
test#6: DP=26 (my AP=18, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 89. Hit rate: 89%. Comment: this was done to verify if having an AP score lower than the DP score of your target affected hit rate. I purposedly tried to halve my AP and see what I got: 11 misses. This led me to do test #5 again.
test#5bis: DP=26 (my AP=38, my Accuracy=0). Shots fired: 100. Hits: 89. Hit rate: 89%. Comment: while the results of the "original" #5 cannot be discarded, the fact that the outcome of this test (which was done under the same circumstances of #5) was the same as #6 (kinda) proved that AP does not effect Hit Rate. Also, this result confirmed my expected result on the number of misses: the number of misses was 11, which was close to ((21+0)/2)=10. If we don't want to discard the "original" #5 results, we can say that we had ((11+2)/2)=6.5 misses, which is definitely less than 11 but, considering the conditions under which these tests were done, is not that unthinkable.
This is a quick table of results, if we take the 44DP test (#3) as our "base":
95 DP Misses 37. DP: 215%, Misses: 176%
[85 DP Misses: 41. DP: 193%, Misses: 195%] <--- this was the result obtained from the very first group of tests - the one I did when I made this topic
69 DP Misses 33: DP: 156%, Misses: 157%
44 DP, Misses: 21. DP: 100%, Misses: 100%
26 DP, Misses: 11 (6.5). DP: 59%. Misses: 52% (31%) (*)
0 DP, Misses: 0. DP: 0%, Misses 0
(*)=(values in parenthesis are if we do want to consider #5bis together - I personally think we should treat #5 results as outsiders)
What does this mean? Basically, and roughly, this means that if the enemy Accuracy remains constant, an x% increase in your DP will result in a x% increase in the number of missed hits from your opponent.
This is an incredible discovery, which might turn every consideration on Accuracy pointless: the more people stack DP, the more Accuracy is valued. In terms of Steel vs Bronze Dagger, this means that there will come a point in which people might get enough DP to drastically reduce your Hit Rate (if you use only Steel Dagger).
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