So I found this chart over in Terrablood's PBM archives -

Unchartered Poster Joined: Aug 09, 2024 Posts: 28

Lungers:
Weapons: 443
EP(75) LO(110) LS(80) SH(8 Cool

SS(85)

Rhythms: 441 (Activity\Offensive Effort)
A\O VL LO MO HI VH
VL 0 0 0 0 0
LO 0 0 0 0 0
MO 0 17 36 19 33
HI 0 10 12 121 27
VH 0 18 40 41 62

Tactics: 431
Lunge(34) Lunge/Dodge(10) Lunge/Riposte(9) Dodge(85) Riposte(45) None(246)

Learns: 155
Attack(24) Decise(31) Defense(24) Initiative(22) Parry(24) Riposte(25) None(3)

This chart is found in Terrabloods archive, referencing rhythm. I am not familiar with this and what this chart is trying to tell me, what are the numbers in the chart, how are the calculated, from what, mean what???

Oh boy!!

I grabbed the lunger for an example.

thanks in advance.

Master Poster Joined: Jul 15, 2014 Posts: 233

A couple suggestions:

1. Get on the Chatzy chat room as there are a bunch of managers that sit on it day and night doing nothing than talking Duelmasters and they'd be happy to bring you up to speed.
2. Noblish Arena, Arena 93, is specifically for people that are new or returning to the game after a long absence. Tons of great articles that would help you with get up to speed on this and your other question on the forum.

In order of appearance:

Lungers:
Weapons: 443
EP(75) LO(110) LS(80) SH(8Cool SS(85)

Every warrior has a favorite weapon determined when they are rolled up. If they live long enough to graduate and get an invite to the Isle, you'll find out what that is. TB collected data on these statistics across people that provided data to the site. There are 5 potential LU favorite weapons. As you can see, the 443 warrior data set tends to represent them equally, give or take, which matches my experience. I.e. 75 out of 443 got Epee as fave.

Rhythms: 441 (Activity\Offensive Effort)

Like with weapons, upon creation every warrior rolls a favorite Offensive Effort ("O") and Activity level (A). You also learn the buckets they fall into, e.g. Very Low (1-2), Low (3-4), Moderate (5-6), High (7- Cool

and Very High (9-10), upon graduation. So, you can see that the 441 Lungers for which he has data, there are none with lower than Low Offensive effort and none with lower than Moderate activity level. If I read the chart right, it looks like a significant majority of the data points are at HI/HI. So, if you ran a new Lunger, you might start there to look for whether your warrior fights well with those numbers and experiment.

"Tactics: 431
Lunge(34) Lunge/Dodge(10) Lunge/Riposte(9) Dodge(85) Riposte(45) None(246)"

Ditto for tactics. A graduating warrior may or may not have rolled a favorite tactic at creation. They can roll none, or an offensive tactic, or a defensive tactic or, very rarely, both. You learn that at graduation as well.

"Learns: 155
Attack(24) Decise(31) Defense(24) Initiative(22) Parry(24) Riposte(25) None(3)"

Ditto. Every warrior has a favorite learn across the six skills and it, too, tends to be distributed equally across the data set. The None values are ones where someone didn't provide that info when submitting other info about their warrior.

Hope that helps.

Unchartered Poster Joined: Aug 09, 2024 Posts: 28

Wow - Thank you Vladimer!!

Great explanation, and I understand that now much better.

I have been mining the older newsletters from 93, picking up what I can to jog the ole memory - that has been helpful.

Have stop by Chatzy too - not too much yet, but have been able to say hello to a few managers.

Appreciate your response, and for taking the time to spell it out for me!

Cheers!

Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2024 12:35 pm

Even if nobody is on Chatzy when you pop on, you can just throw out any questions anyways. You can scroll back when you log on the next time and more than likely multiple people will have chimed in. And sometimes it sends the vets down a little rabbit hole and you learn a lot more than just the answer to your question.