"If you holy from the flank or rear you will miss less"

[Garflex]

I'm very curious as to whether this statement is true or not. I can't find proof one way or another anywhere, and it's incredibly hard to test. Casters have always had a flat accuracy cap but is there an accuracy cap for them when hitting from the rear? I never believed there was, so when I heard this statement I was confused and went searching.

[SoloKing]

I very much doubt this is true.
Pay no notice.

[FoxyAreku]

Magic always registers as a rear hit no matter what. This is why black mages always have the lowest accuracy caps in coil/savage.

Think this person thought white mages were physical for some reason?

[Canadane]

Magical accuracy is different than physical, including ranged physical. The position doesn't matter at all.

[AskaRay]

Someone was trolling you or was very, very misinformed.

[Garflex]

I did some testing on Faust in AS1, here's the number's I got.

Holy from the rear = 19.05% Miss Rate

Holy from front = 17.65% Miss Rate

I conclude that casters are not affected by positional's in regards to accuracy.

[Chiramu]

There is no accuracy on Healing gear at present so there is no real need to debate anything about missing imo. It's just a massive waste of MP if you do atm >.>, "Stone III MISS"...

[Garflex]

There is no accuracy on Healing gear at present so there is no real need to debate anything about missing imo. It's just a massive waste of MP if you do atm >.>, "Stone III MISS"...

Spamming Holy in raids is often a waste of MP, however, DPSing in raids isn't a waste of MP at all. My Stone III miss rate was 3% on my last AS3 clear. I normally run about 92%-94% accuracy overall without a BRD using Rain of Death to bump it even higher. I'm looking forward to melding accuracy once the patch hits though and/or getting crafted gear with accuracy melded. I miss my Nirvana Zeta with fully melded accuracy :'(

[Nekotee]

Magical accuracy is different than physical, including ranged physical. The position doesn't matter at all.

I second this a lot

For magic no position, no distance and low accuracy requirement


We rules !

[Fynlar]

Did not actually know about this (that positioning doesn't matter for attack magic), so +1 to this thread for informing