Guild Wars, Point-Scoring for Battles, and You!

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But the developers themselves did reveal the Mana surge chance formula a number of times. Once in a nice diagram outlining the changes. Sirrian himself posted the Mana surge formula once. And during a detailed discussion of console vs PC.

This is just off the cuff from what I recall. Give me a minute and I’ll find it.

EDIT:

Do any of the high level players actually have unbalanced mana masteries?

For any math-heads out there, we use a pretty common diminishing returns formula for Masteries & Mana Surge SURGE CHANCE = MASTERY/(100+MASTERY) So: Mastery 0 = 0% chance Mastery 20 = 17% chance Mastery 50 = 33% chance Mastery 100 = 50% chance Mastery 200 = 67% chance

EDIT 2:

1.0.8 Preview Part 2 - Upgrading Troops

Incoming Math! We’re making a change to the diminishing return formula in 1.0.8 The end result is about identical returns for masteries up to about 50, but it drops off just a little after that point… for example at mastery level 100, it is about 5% lower. We’ve found that exceedingly high level players are getting just a few more mana surges than we would like. If you think of a diminishing return formula as: CHANCE = (LIMIT * MASTERY) / (MASTERY + DECAY) We currently have LIMIT = 1 & DEC…