Jola -- it is definitely the spell level not the homin level that is used.
If there is a serial correlation then I have not seen it. Like most observations of random elements, the human mind pays more attention to strings of events than to the overall random factor and so we see correlation where there is none.
Someone once reported that degrades were behaving non-randomly in crafting. Energetic homins did thousands of trials and the patterns were not actually there. That doesn't mean that I can't get 50% failures on a crafting session to make one set of LA. That can happen. It's low probability, but boy is it frustrating when it does. Likewise the 9 resists in a row. It's low probability, but it happens.
If there is a serial correlation then I have not seen it. Like most observations of random elements, the human mind pays more attention to strings of events than to the overall random factor and so we see correlation where there is none.
Someone once reported that degrades were behaving non-randomly in crafting. Energetic homins did thousands of trials and the patterns were not actually there. That doesn't mean that I can't get 50% failures on a crafting session to make one set of LA. That can happen. It's low probability, but boy is it frustrating when it does. Likewise the 9 resists in a row. It's low probability, but it happens.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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