Dragon Warrior 2 - Lua Scripting - Dodge Chances

One other thing that I've wondered in Dragon Warrior 2 is dodge chances: raw chance, with Surround up, and does the Clothes Hiding actually do anything? Here is the script I used to test (Dragon Warrior 2 Dodge Chance Lua).

First up is the chance of just a raw dodge:

Raw dodge chance

The chances are pretty low, and with some margin of error, seem to be in line with the general accepted 1/64 dodge chance. 

Here is an important one, the chance of being hit with the enemy Surrounded (in this case I used the Light Sword): 

A Surrounded Cyclops

Surround in this game gives an additional 25% chance to dodge an enemy attack. This is pretty low and they even adjusted this rate higher in later games to be more effective, to 50% or more.  It makes Surround a pretty useless spell, except for in a few select cases. 

Now for equipping Clothes Hiding:

Hero with Clothes Hiding equipped

This is the most surprising result.  Clothes Hiding seems to give an additional 12.5% (or 1/8) to dodge an enemy attack.  I was thinking this was much lower, and it might make getting a set of Clothes Hiding a good option at some point in the speedrun. 

And to be complete, I did one more test, combining Surround and Clothes Hiding: 

Cyclops Surrounded and Hero with Clothes Hiding

The effects of both seem to stack, giving close to the combined dodge chance of both Surround and Clothes Hiding. 

Dragon Warrior 2 - Lua Scripting - Targeted Chances

I've been writing and running some Lua script tests lately, thanks to TheCowness as I took most of the work from him.  I've been using them to test specific chances of things happening in various Dragon Warrior games.  

Here is one that I ran on for Dragon Warrior 2 (script here).  This script loads a preset state over and over and records the chances that either Middenhall, Cannock, or Moonbrooke are targeted in battle. 

The results:

From what I already knew from speedrunning this game, I was fairly confident that it was an equal chance for each character to be targeted.  This just confirms my suspicions and helps my sanity for whenever I see Moonbrook targeted and killed during the grind segment.  I might double check this for a couple more enemies, but I'm pretty sure that this holds throughout the game.