Reassessing the Vindicare Assassin

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**Neorealist**

cod3x wrote:
"And yes that 1/12 odds of missing seems to happen to me far more than the averages would suggest"

No it doesn't. This is perspective bias, but on even a moderate time scale, it happens exactly as the averages would suggest. Unless you aren't playing with fair dice. In a small enough sample, you can get more misses than expected, but you eventually will arrive at the average, so your bad "luck" becomes a "hot streak" eventually. You aren't unlucky, you just notice the misses way more because they aren't "expected".

Good point on re-rolling a re-roll, but wouldn't the first two rolls constitute the "roll to hit", which you would then re roll with TL? I don't have anyone who it matters for (unless you man a quad gun with a bloodthirster) so I don't use it.

No kidding. I am aware of the statistical anomaly that is my typical rolling, and was relaying my personal experiences rather than indicating the vindicare somehow sways fate against it.

In regard to your latter question: no, the 're-roll' from having a high ballistic skill is explicitly such, and therefore does not play well with a re-roll granted by anything else such as something being twin-linked.