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In playing the nightlies, I feel like the breath frequencies for monsters have shot way up. For example, a baby multihued dragon (nominal breath chance: 1 in 10) breathed 5 times in 12 rounds. An earlier fight with a baby black had similarly frequent breath attacks, and when I got ~10 light hounds in LOS at once, about half of them breathed on me in that one round. Has something changed here?
Looking at the source, it seems to me that the chance of casting a spell is given as the average of freq_innate and freq_spell, with freq_innate always having the same value as freq_spell and freq_spell being read out from monster.txt. So it should be accurate. I still feel like breath attacks are more common than they used to be though. Weird...
EDIT: stepped into view of 16 earth hounds, got breathed on 4 times. I'm at +5 speed, so on average only 8 of those should have gotten a turn, and their breath frequency is 1 in 10, giving an actual frequency 5 times higher than nominal. Could still just be a coincidence; I know players are notorious for only noticing luck when it goes against them.
Looking at the source, it seems to me that the chance of casting a spell is given as the average of freq_innate and freq_spell, with freq_innate always having the same value as freq_spell and freq_spell being read out from monster.txt. So it should be accurate. I still feel like breath attacks are more common than they used to be though. Weird...
EDIT: stepped into view of 16 earth hounds, got breathed on 4 times. I'm at +5 speed, so on average only 8 of those should have gotten a turn, and their breath frequency is 1 in 10, giving an actual frequency 5 times higher than nominal. Could still just be a coincidence; I know players are notorious for only noticing luck when it goes against them.
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