How to calculate accuracy?

[Valdrien]

Originally posted by Alontier
I misread Mithrael's 2nd point the first time.
Accuracy is a skill and not hitrate, same as Evasion is not evasionrate.
Sushi is accuracy+ food that boosts accuracy skill while Bardsong "Sword Madrigal" boosts hitrate

I see. This makes more sense, especially the bit about Madrigal. From the testimonials I have read from so many melee DDs, it seems to have a more profound effect than merely increasing the accuracy parameter. I'll bet Prelude is the same way.

Hitrate seems to be calculated through Attackers accuracy against Defenders evasion.
With a gain or loss of 1% for every 2 difference.

ex
DEva > AAcc → 50%-(diff/2)% (Will /con "Low evasion" with a diff over 20?)
DEva = AAcc → 50% hitrate
DEva < AAcc → 50%+(diff/2)% (Will /con "High evasion" with a diff over 20?)

This perhaps needs a revision to include the relative levels of the attacker & defender. When skilling up a weapon on much lower level mobs, for example, we seem to have well over a 50% hitrate even when the mob cons "high evasion" due to our low weapon skill.

Evasion Rate Cap = 80%
Hitrate Cap = 95%

So no matter how much +accuracy gear and sushi we pile on we will still miss 1 in 20 attacks. Yet people still say "you can't have too much acc"

Drogen_Shomuro
I'll post again when I'm off work and have looked it up again.

Please pass along all the information you can, if you feel you can translate it accurately!