Enmity Test Results and Conclusions (Translation)

[Kaeko]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=307111

Sorry the image is hard to read. I had to post quickly to head off to work. Glad to see some other testing going on. I see a lot of discrepancies in the table so I'll have to dig at the methodology differences when I get back.

[Kitfox]

Huge thanks to the translator and testers! This is very useful infromation!

[syntaxlies]

Pretty amazing work. Isit yours or did yo just translate it,either way Ty. I posted on ,y LS forums.

[SynysterBlitz]

Thanks a bunch for the helpful info

[BigCajonez88]

Im curious on the testing, is there a program to run to view Enmity? Would love to run it during ifrit.

[Kitfox]

As far as I know, there's no program. I'm pretty sure they tested the enmity numbers by using the ability, and then throwing stones with a DoH class (or some other controlled damage method) until the mob turned, or some other similar method.

[Rydin]

The tester explained this as not being an absolute cap, but rather a relative cap; you can only have 27000 enmity over the lowest other person on the list. Therefore, if two people are on the hate list, the lower one has 100 enmity, and you have generated 35000 enmity, you are floored to 27100 and (barring any additional enmity generated by you) the lower person would overtake you after generating 27001 enmity.

So in theory... if 1 person has 100... and the tank is capped at 27100... as long as the person at 100 never generates any more enmity... no one else in the party can possibly pull hate from the tank???

discuss.....

[Estellios]

No, in theory if the tank has 27100 and someone has 100, the TANK does not get any more enmity but everyone else can so DDs can eventually get up to the same amount of enmity as the tank unless the person with 100 gets more hate.

So mages should be shooting more for Yellow enmity, if that's true.

[Rydin]

No, in theory if the tank has 27100 and someone has 100, the TANK does not get any more enmity but everyone else can so DDs can eventually get up to the same amount of enmity as the tank unless the person with 100 gets more hate.

So mages should be shooting more for Yellow enmity, if that's true.

Thats my point.. DDs could only get even with the tank.. and never pass him.. and according to the enmity mechanics... never pull hate

[Estellios]

The problem with that though is that when people have equal hate whoever did the last action takes hate, so the enemy would be bouncing all over the place and targeting whoever took the last swing.