User:BlueNovember1515

About me
Ah yes, as with interviews, the "talk about yourself" bit is always tricky. I imagine I will fill this in as and when I get round to it. =)

Characters
PVP
 * Offering of Blood
 * Mantra of Recall
 * Enraged Smash
 * Incendiary Arrows
 * Offering of Spirit

PVE
 * Blue November (titles)
 * Anwyn The Welsh
 * Ceri The Welsh
 * Gwideon The Druid
 * Rhodri The Welsh
 * Sharpe Edges
 * Spirit of The Welsh

Economic value of using a discounted lockpick on Normal Mode chests
This table is taken from the article on lockpicks, then editted to take into account the 300g reduction in lockpick cost that outpost holders (such as myself) benefit from. The "keyprice" field remains unchanged. If looking for 600g kurzick/luxon chests, refer to the new 480g relation.

Note that 1250g keys actually cost more than reduced lock picks, so the break even chance is 100%.

1 This is the bonus given to your chance of not breaking the lock pick when using on a particular tier of normal mode chests.

Use table below to calculate your chance.

Lock pick survival chance
Bold numbers highlight situations where it would not be economical to use discounted lockpicks on 600g chests. Ie, if you have some combination of the two titles that brings you to a non-bold number, you should use lockpicks instead of the 600g keys for that area, as there it will be cheaper in the long run. Example:
 * Bob has r4 lucky and r1 chest. This boosts his survial chance to 21%.
 * Looking at the table for discount locks, Bob sees that he only needs a 20% survival chance boost to use lockpicks on any 600g chest
 * Bob happily uses up any 600g keys he may have lying around, then only use lockpicks from then on.

Reasoning:
 * Bob wants to open 100 Kurzick chests.
 * 60k buys you 100 standard keys
 * For the same amount Bob gets 50 lockpicks.
 * However, with Bob's 21% bonus and 30% inherent bonus (from the 600g chest) Bob expects to retain a lockpick 51% of the time.
 * On average Bob will open just over 100 chests, but will also increment his lucky title by 50*250 = 12,500 and his unlucky title by 50*25 = 1,250. (Equivalent to about 11,000g worth of 9 rings!)

(Bob may of course make a loss on keys initially, but statistically will come out on top in the long run).

Interesting GWG articles
Extensive lockpick guide. Similar idea to what I have above, but more scary and detailed. Will try to wikify at a later date.

Why Nuking Sucks Kiting and Damage Mitigation Through Movement How Deep Wound Works Modifier Stacking and You Killing Lich in Abaddon's Killing Shiro in Sunjiang Shamelessly stolen from User:Savio's page.

Interesting Gwiki pages
Adding them as I find them =)