Catherine Wheel & Singularity

[nightchrome]

I have a question about the new pet Catherine Wheel and also the Singularity upon which it was apparently based.

So, looking at City of Data raw info, it's clear that these two have extremely similar base settings.

One thing that really stood out to me though was in the base power that contains all their default stuff like fly speed, resistances, etc.

They both get, for some reason, a -25% ToHit debuff cast on themselves.

This seems like a really weird thing to be on the base powers/settings for a pet, and I checked and none of the other similar pets have

this -25% ToHit debuff on them.

Can someone explain what this is and why it's there on just Catherine Wheel and Singularity?

Was it a bug that was on Singularity and now just got copy-pasted to Catherine Wheel when they created it from the same cloth so to speak?

Edited Thursday at 01:47 AM by nightchrome

[nightchrome]

I've been floated an idea from someone that the reason is because the base accuracy levels that exist and are easily implemented are 1.0 and 1.3 with nothing in between, and the devs might have wanted 1.05 so the only way to do it is give them 1.3 and then slap a -0.25 debuff on them. Which is a weird way of doing it, but might make some logical sense if there are restrictions in the code we don't see from the outside.

[twozerofoxtrot]

I was going to say just that.

 

Singy's atracks are mostly either autohit or baseline 1.2 accuracy on CoD (only lift is at 1.0). So it could be an oversight in copying over from Singy.

 

BTW Checked Symph's Reverb and it also has that -25% ToHit debuff; I would imagine for the same reason.

 

 

[nightchrome]

6 minutes ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

I was going to say just that.

 

Singy's atracks are mostly either autohit or baseline 1.2 accuracy on CoD (only lift is at 1.0). So it could be an oversight in copying over from Singy.

 

BTW Checked Symph's Reverb and it also has that -25% ToHit debuff; I would imagine for the same reason.

 

 

 

Ahh, I thought I checked Reverb but I guess not. Yeah it would make sense if they were copypaste versions of Singularity.

I don't quite understand why they give a base acc rating when each attack has its own accuracy either, but that's neither here nor there.

 

It's so nice having CoD updated again...even if it leads to scrutinizing numbers for no real reason.

Edited Thursday at 03:32 AM by nightchrome

[Riverdusk]

Earth control animate stone pet is another one that has a -25% tohit listed.  Earth control has so much defense debuff it probably doesn't really matter much, but always found it strange on it as well.