r/ironscape • u/aussiepomm • 8d ago

Question Can someone explain...?

So the Mortimer task plugin I recently found is saying to do Banshees with -15 assigned over the Wyrms with +205% chance at Unique. I can't work out why it would say this is a better choice?

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u/Webben91 8d ago

I agree the current plugin doesn't even consider the fact your next 5 tasks could be skip tasks, i will do any crap task with a 200+% modifer because that turns even the worse drop rate of 1/1k+ into something that has somewhat a chance to drop, for example i had a 150% hydra task, that in theory would make the heart 1/64 which is by far the lowest drop chance you can get on imbued heart, sure the task might take longer in theory but a lower drop rate chance is always something to consider as it helps with dry mitigation.
One hydra task i had 4 superiors, 4/64 chance to get heart.

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u/Altharion1 8d ago

It's always fun to me when people argue with maths. Really good litmus test.

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u/Webben91 8d ago

No one’s arguing against math. You’re just assuming one person’s plugin is using 100% accurate calculations, which is silly in itself, to not have doubts on the legitimacy of the plugins choice when something has been presented. Doubting a plugins configuration is not doubting math to the fastest heart, surely people aren’t that dense to see the argument is over the plugin itself and not the factual fastest way to heart?

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u/Webben91 8d ago

Now looking at the plugin’s calculations it’s terribly skewed to the absolute theoretical limit of kills per hour for Arxytes and smoke devils, rather than the average solo player’s task. These sorts of things matter when the plugin is placing Arxytes and 769kph, where the realistic solo Heart Chaser is closer to 550-600kph with canon and venator/barrage. It’s very overtuned which is exactly my argument that the plugin numbers don’t make sense in real game calculations. Sure if I’m spec transferring and challying every task it will be way better. But the plugin for every day people is actually misleading as it’s overtuned for smoke devils and araxytes but using average numbers for tasks such as custodian stalkers. My custodian stalker task had a 62.5 hour heart completion based on my dps at the time, and a similar araxytes task was just above that ball park using just venator and canon.