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    Player Elphy's Avatar
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    Isnt it a rng that determines if you learned it after the mob is killed and not during the battle? Sorta like loot drops. Thats how I always assumed it worked.

    Testing also showed that after a mob uses it once, forcing the mob to use it multiple times does no good to increase the chances of learning the spell since its only the first time the mob uses it that basically would put it in the 'loot list'. Therefore once a mob uses a move there is no need to let it live to use it again since your chances of learning said spell are gained by the mobs initial use only.

    Going to see if I can dig up that test after I get home tomorrow
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    Player WolfMoonstrike's Avatar
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    Wolfmoonstrike
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    Leviathan
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elphy View Post
    Isnt it a rng that determines if you learned it after the mob is killed and not during the battle? Sorta like loot drops. Thats how I always assumed it worked.

    Testing also showed that after a mob uses it once, forcing the mob to use it multiple times does no good to increase the chances of learning the spell since its only the first time the mob uses it that basically would put it in the 'loot list'. Therefore once a mob uses a move there is no need to let it live to use it again since your chances of learning said spell are gained by the mobs initial use only.

    Going to see if I can dig up that test after I get home tomorrow
    Interesting that you akin learning Blue Magic to a loot drop, because it seemed to me that whenever I went /thf or had someone around for TH my spells were always learned within a couple battles at most. Then again I could just be lucky or it could be all in my head lol. Then again maybe Blue Magic is exactly like a drop that just isn't put into the treasure pool lol.
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    Player Zagen's Avatar
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    Zagen
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elphy View Post
    Isnt it a rng that determines if you learned it after the mob is killed and not during the battle? Sorta like loot drops. Thats how I always assumed it worked.

    Testing also showed that after a mob uses it once, forcing the mob to use it multiple times does no good to increase the chances of learning the spell since its only the first time the mob uses it that basically would put it in the 'loot list'. Therefore once a mob uses a move there is no need to let it live to use it again since your chances of learning said spell are gained by the mobs initial use only.

    Going to see if I can dig up that test after I get home tomorrow
    Never seen any definitive testing since it's hard to reproduce but yeah the general consensus that I've been aware of is after the spell was used and the monster was killed by you/your group the chances of learning it was a random "roll" which was boosted by AF gloves like TH gear for loot.
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