garet_jaxx's Neopets® page

Weapon Tests - S

Test results of Shrunken Skull Marbles in one-player battledome...500 uses:
HUGE thanks to an anonymous, but special, friend for the loan. :)

Minimum Icons = 0
Maximum Icons = 12
Most Common Icons = 8
NOTE: Marbles do random pairs of all icon types excluding physical.
EXAMPLE: 2 water...2 air, 2 fire, 2 dark....2 light, 2 earth, 2 air, 2 dark....etc.

AVERAGE ICONS PER USE = 7.30

Test results of Sinsis Sword in one-player battledome...250 uses:
Thanks to nite750 for the loan. :)

Sinsis Sword does 2 air (constant), 2 light (constant), 2 fire (constant), and 0.3-3.0 physical.
1 physical icon - 88/250 (35.2%)
2 physical icons - 61/250 (24.4%)
3 physical icons - 101/250 (40.4%)
Average phys icons per use: 2.05

AVERAGE VISIBLE ICONS PER USE: 8.05

Min. DAMAGE-BASED icons = 6.3
Max. DAMAGE-BASED icons = 9.0
AVERAGE DAMAGE-BASED ICONS PER USE: 7.69

Test results of Slumberberry Potion in one-player battledome...500 uses:
Thanks to someone for the loan. ;)

Freeze = 82/500 (16.4%) (roughly 1-in-6 chance)
Most Consecutive Freezes = 4
Most Consecutive Rounds WITHOUT a Freeze = 32
NOTE: Slumberberry Potion also does 10 water icons, constant.

Test results of Smugglers Treasure Chest in one-player battledome...250 uses:

When used, the Chest turns into one of the following items for the duration of the battle:


Fierce Wooden Leg	Dr Sloth Plushie	Mystic Jelly Bean Necklace	Umbrella Shield
7/250 (2.8%)	12/250 (4.8%)	12/250 (4.8%)	12/250 (4.8%)


Aubergine Mace	Earwax Chia	Mystical Fish Lobber	Sad Spell
14/250 (5.6%)	15/250 (6.0%)	15/250 (6.0%)	15/250 (6.0%)


Seasonal Attack Pea	Alien Aisha Ray Gun	Metal Wand	Cursed Ink Pot
15/250 (6.0%)	16/250 (6.4%)	16/250 (6.4%)	18/250 (7.2%)


Mystical Teapot of Doom	Alien Aisha Scrambler	Cake Bomb	Banana Sword
19/250 (7.6%)	20/250 (8.0%)	21/250 (8.4%)	23/250 (9.2%)

NOTE: Test conducted Jan 10th, 2004. Results subject to change if new items are able to be created later.
NOTE: While it can change into a Dr Sloth Plushie, the plushie does NOTHING when used. CONCLUSION: Taking margin for error into account, I'd say that there is an equal 1-in-16 chance of any given item. Ideally on a 250-use test, each item would be pulled 15-16 times and most of them fall within a reasonable amount of that.

Test results of Snowball Club in one-player battledome...250 uses:
Thanks to anthro_armadillomon and soloflying for the loans. :)

This is UPDATED info since the Sept 11th DOWNGRADE
Snowball Club now does 3 water (constant), 3 physical. (constant)
NO TEST NEEDED
AVERAGE TOTAL ICONS PER USE: 6.0

Test results for Snowball Machine in one-player battledome...250 uses:

Chance of drawing one snowball - 24%
Chance of drawing two snowballs - 49%
Chance of drawing three snowballs - 27%
Average snowballs per draw: 2.03

Chance of drawing 11-15 icon snowballs - 18%
Chance of drawing 9-12 icon snowballs - 27%
Chance of drawing 7-9 icon snowballs - 34%
Chance of drawing 6 icons or less - 21%

Total snowballs drawn of 11-15 icons: 17.8%
Total snowballs drawn of 9-12 icons: 25.1%
Total snowballs drawn of 7-9 icons: 37.9%
Total snowballs drawn of 6 or less icons: 19.2%
NOTE: Yes, I'm aware there is some overlap in terms of defining placement by icon. I arbitrarily decided to split them up in this way: Wet and poison are under 6...evil, yellow, and peach are 7-9...exploding, icy, and stone are 9-12...snow mudball and sticky are 11-15.

Most common snowballs drawn (in terms of #, not frequency)
Evil: 13.3%
Peach: 12.3%
Yellow: 12.3%
Exploding: 11.3%
Snow Mudball: 10.4%
Poison: 10.3%
Wet: 8.9%
Sticky: 7.4%
Stone: 7.4%
Icy: 6.4%

Type of snowball drawn according to frequency (unlike with the Hat, only one type of snowball is given per use.):
Evil: 14%
Exploding: 13%
Yellow: 13%
Peach: 11%
Snow Mudball: 10%
Poison: 9%
Stone: 8%
Icy: 8%
Wet: 8%
Sticky: 6%

Test results of Snowball Slingshot in one-player battledome...250 uses:

Sling does EITHER 2 air, 2 light, .2-2 phys OR 3 air, 3 water, .3-3 phys
Minimum Attack = 4.2 icons
Maximum Attack = 9 icons

AVERAGE TOTAL ICONS PER USE (based on damage): 6.34 (of four types even if only three are used at any given time)

Test results of Snowglobe Staff in one-player battledome...250 uses:

Does Nothing: 53/250 (21.2%)
Breaks for Battle: 42/250 (16.8%)
Freezes Opponent: 48/250 (19.2%)
Creates Yellow Snowball: 56/250 (22.4%)
6-icon Attack (3 water/3 light) 51/250 (20.4%)
NOTE: If it freezes your opponent, it disappears for the battle.
NOTE: Yellow snowball does 7-9 icons
NOTE: It IS considered a freezing weapon, so it CANNOT be equipped with Hypno Helmet, Freezing Potion, Ice Dice, etc.
SUMMARY: Taking margin of error into account, I'd say it has an overall 1 in 5 chance (20%) for any given option.

Test results for Spectres Battledeck in one-player battledome...250 uses:
Many thanks to snazzify for letting me borrow it for my tests :)

Average cards per draw: 2.05

Chance of drawing 10-15 icon cards - 12.8%
Chance of drawing 9-12 icon cards - 23.6%
Chance of drawing 7-9 icon cards - 19.6%
Chance of drawing cards of 6 icons or less - 44.0%

Total cards drawn of 10-15 icons: 12.7%
Total cards drawn of 9-12 icons: 23.6%
Total cards drawn of 7-9 icons: 20.3%
Total cards drawn of 6 or less icons: 43.4%
NOTE: Yes, I'm aware there is some overlap, just like with the snowballs. With 22 different types from the spec deck, I don't feel like listing each one. If you have any specific questions, just neomail me.
As with the Snowball Machine, only one type of card is given per use.

Test results of ALL Sticky Hands in one-player battledome...250 uses each:

Colour
Steal %	44/250 (17.6%)	71/250 (28.4%)	102/250 (40.8%)
Most Straight NON-steals	20	13	8
Colour
Steal %	123/250 (49.2%)	166/250 (66.4%)	210/250 (84.0%)
Most Straight NON-steals	7	6	2

Test results of Sword of the Air Faerie in one-player battledome...250 uses:

6 Air icons: 51/250 (20.4%)
9 Air icons: 84/250 (33.6%)
12 Air icons: 62/250 (24.8%)
15 Air icons: 45/250 (18.0%)
18 Air icons: 7/250 ( 2.8%)
21 Air icons: 1/250 ( 0.4%)
Average Air icons per use: 10.51

1 Physical icon: 82/250 (32.8%)
2 Physical icons: 78/250 (31.2%)
3 Physical icons: 90/250 (36.0%)
Average Physical icons per use = 2.03

AVERAGE VISIBLE ICONS PER USE: 12.54

Min. DAMAGE-BASED icons I got = 6.3
Max. DAMAGE-BASED icons I got = 22.2

AVERAGE DAMAGE-BASED ICONS PER USE: 11.9
NOTE: Yes, when basing on damage, it averages LESS than a Snot Trail in my tests. And I HAVE seen it do 24 air icons, but it never happened during my testing of the sword.

UPDATED (After the Mar. 14th upgrade) Test results of Sword of Skardsen in one-player battledome...500 uses:

Darkness Attack = 15 icons (constant)
Minimum Physical Attack = 1 icons
Maximum Physical Attack = 9 icons
Most Common Phys Attack = 2 icons
Average Physical Attack = 3.28 icons

AVERAGE TOTAL ICONS PER USE = 18.28 (up from 13.23 which was down from the original 19.86 avg)
Minimum TOTAL Icons (damage-based) = 16.25
Maximum TOTAL Icons (damage-based) = 24.0
AVERAGE TOTAL ICONS PER USE (damage-based) = 18.18