by Crawly McCrawlsa on Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:39 am
The potion will tell you EXACTLY when you will dodge, and as far as I can tell, will never dodge before that point. Example:
You have natural 10% dodge for some reason to start with in this example.
Thus, you will occasionally randomly dodge an attack without warning.
Now! If you use a dodge potion... (quicksilver? whatever)
You will NO LONGER randomly dodge attacks. Instead, that increasing 10%, 20%, 30%, etc, is just the game's reminder that you will soon dodge an attack at an ever more likely chance!
When this finally occurs, it will Always tell you. That's what "Dodge Prediction" is.
The game decides whether you will dodge a monster's attack before you ever even decide to hit it!
So, that 100% dodge chance in your status window just means that following this next failed attack, you will be gauranteed a dodge, and your status window will say !DODGE! in teal letters instead of the normal SAFE, DEATH, VICTORY etc.
If I have a 30% dodge chance on my status window, but my combat predictor says SAFE or DEATH, I will NOT dodge that attack. Ever. Because my "Dodge Prediction" status says I won't. The potion is a useful way of being gauranteed a dodge that you will know of ahead of time.
While reaching 100% like your case is rather rare, it just so happens that you managed to do it and got unlucky since the game isn't completely clear on the subtle mechanics of how dodge and dodge prediction work.
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