Is the "Backup" talent still at 35% summon chance? Discuss

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Just been wondering this recently.

“Feels” more like the original 50% of late.

I don’t have a crapload of data to back this up though, maybe RNG hates me :laughing:

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They should just remove the passive summon skills. Just makes pvp worse than it already is.

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Needs to be 25% at most. Orbweaver summoning spiders too.

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I’ve been thinking it would help if they were somehow capped?

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Since this is a trait on a hero class… They’ll NEVER change it. Unfortunately.

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Well they recently changed thief from 50% to 35% after much feedback. Don’t see why we can’t get it changed again.

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3 summon or resurection should be the max, the battles are getting longer because of this stupidity

Very boring having to kill 10 spider or bandit to finish every fights

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That’s a good idea, I would actually take it further and make these talents a “once only” talent like some spells are.

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Talents and troop traits can be changed…hero class traits not so much. Different coding for all 3…

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4 bandit summons.

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^^^ broken as intended.

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I think the takeaway here is “35% is still 1/3 which happens more often than people believe.”

But I still reference the age-old TDS discussion that went like this:

  • TDS was supposed to have a unique trait, but the devs couldn’t finish it on time so it got a 50% (?) resurrection trait.
  • Players complained for a year+ that it procced too often. The devs pointed at “RNG” and stuck out their tongues.
  • Players asked for the new TDS trait.
  • The devs were too busy.
  • One player did an analysis that suggested the TDS resurrection was proccing at 5%, but with abnormal bias towards “streaking”. He asserted a 90% confidence that instead of picking with equal probability, it was more likely to proc 0 or 3 times in a match than 1 or 2, which suggested a very strange RNG bias.
  • By the next update the devs mysteriously decided to prioritize assigning a unique third trait to TDS.

Since then, any player who dares utter that the RNG could have a streak biased is ridiculed, because player memory is short.

So historical takeaways are:

  • The RNG is biased in that it favors streaks or misses more than it should.
    • It still hits the right probability over time. The bias only shows itself if you think radical thoughts like “3 in a row” ought to be less likely than “2 in a row” and even less likely than “1 in a row”.
    • The devs only served to reinforce this with what I call a “Trump denial”. It’s when you assert, “I could not have stolen cookies from the cookie jar because I am allergic to dairy.” and within 10 minutes have Tweeted, “Dunking Oreos with best friend and totally misunderstood Cookie Monster at a dairy farm!” with pictures.
  • Players absolutely hate summon-on-death triggers.
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The worst thing about these type of summons is nobody really uses them in offense, not really. They are only used as a PITA defense.

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I’m on the lonely island of believing Thief is the best class in the game. Bandit does come in handy on offense. But when it does, it still feels broken. :man_shrugging:

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Yeah, I used it for a Raid Boss once (when it was 50%) with Trickster’s Shot, and it just felt like cheating.

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I think Orbweavers trait should be higher. I would be happy with 20% on talents and 25% on Orbweaver.