Talk:Coup De Grace

Paralyze Runes and Coup De Grace

 * There are some unknowns about how paralyze runes operate.
 * Is there a resist check? I suspect not, but I don't know.
 * Is anything immune? Paralysis Explosion works on anything (even Archdemon).  Suspect runes are similar, but I don't know.

The big question is "can a rogue with Coup De Grace keep a target permanently paralyzed?" If so, that's a quick shortcut to achieving a near-100% backstab rate without having to flank your attacker -- something that's takes time to achieve (time you could be spending DPS'ing).

This table basically shows your chance of keeping a target permanently paralyzed with various levels of runes loaded into your weapons. This assumes the duration isn't modified by target effect duration modifiers, 100% hit-rate, and 2x daggers each with 3x paralyze runes. You can use other weapon combinations, but they all hit so much slower, your paralyze rates are going to be a lot lower due to slower attack rate.

All paralyze runes have a 5% chance to paralyze, but for different durations. I assume that each chance is independent. I didn't include dual-striking on the assumption that your goal is to get a backstab. If your goal is instead to simply keep a troublesome target shutdown (perhaps it's crit-immune), Dual Striking will significantly increase your chances of a permanent lock-down; eg. your Momentum+Novice chances goes from 17 to as much as 34, which gives ~83% instead of ~58%.

Bjond (talk) 04:53, January 17, 2012 (UTC)