What Affects Headbutt Accuracy

[Rellikard]

I think I'm finally going to finish my BLU merits so I was wondering since I've seen BLUs w/ capped BLU magic skill, sword merits, etc. have better Headbutt procs and when they do, their stuns generally last longer than mine, what exactly affects this? Blue magic skill? Melee accuracy? What?

[VZX]

We don't know. If anything worth to gear for, it will be magic accuracy.

But generally I just use my TP piece (acc+, haste+). Stun length most of the time is a secondary concern in my case, while landing head butt and have it proc'd is the first thing to prioritize on anything that you can your head butt on.

[Belgaer]

Getting a good balance of Blue Magic+ (1st priority), Magic Acc+ (2nd priority), and Acc+ (3rd) is the best way to go, imo. The recast is low enough that you're better off improving proc rates or stacking Acc on than bothering with Haste. I've heard INT+ helps, but I've never really noticed. Good pieces for this is AF body, relic head/o hat, relic legs, Omega Ring/Balrahn's Ring/Acc+5 Ring, relic cape, etc. etc.

As for what affects it and how, I believe skill and magic acc affect the proc rate, while acc just makes the spell not miss completely as often. Like I said, I'm unsure how INT affects it, if at all. If it does, it would affect proc rate as well.

[Sylvrdragon]

I usually spam Head Butt so much that I don't gear swap for it. Most of time, I do it in just my TPing set, which only has 3 M.ACC from Mirage Shalwar (no Homam legs yet). I must say that even though the recast is short, I still like the even shorter recast when I'm using my Haste (TPing) gear (Turban, Dusk hands and feet, Swift Belt).

If you're really worried about it, then things a BLU might reasonably aim for include:

Mirage Keffiyeh(+1) (5 Skill)
Homam Head (4 M.ACC)
Mirage Shalwar(+1) (3/5 M.ACC)
Mirage Mantle (3 M.ACC)
Denali Gamashes (3 M.ACC)
Magus Jubbah(+1) (15 Skill)
Morrigan's Cuffs (5 M.ACC)
Nashira Gages (3 M.ACC)
Omega Ring (3 M.ACC)
Balrahn's Ring (4 M.ACC)

Assuming Skill > M.ACC for effect, the best set you could possibly get would be +20 Skill and +23 M.ACC (not counting Aureole as it isn't practical). Of course, your average BLU might have trouble getting some of that, so I expect roughly +15 skill and maybe +10 M.ACC average (This is where I'm at if I try, and I don't consider myself either gimped or pimped). The good news it that most of this gear provides ACC as well which will help greatly to land the spell in the first place.

[Ophannus]

My BLU is only 41 but does M.acc work for physical blue magic? I'm inclined to ask because I thought physical blue magic was based on weapon accuracy, so it seems odd that if it bases its acc on physical weapon accuracy why would magic acc affect it too? 292 blue skill(which is more or less 292 magic accuracy) +269 sword skill wouldn't that mean physical blu spells would have crazy high accuracy?

[Sylvrdragon]

For a Physical spell to land in the first place is all ACC. We're talking more about the Add effect of Head Butt (Stun) and other similar spells. We're not totally sure if ANYTHING affects it, but if it did, it would undoubtedly be M.ACC.

[LordshadowRagnarok]

Accuracy effects the attack part, magic accuracy effects the stun part.

[Ophannus]

I wonder if the same can be said for weapon skills that add a status ailment without the chance of inflicting being contingent on TP.(i.e Yuki/Gekko/Kasha)

[fantasticdan]

Accuracy effects the attack part, magic accuracy effects the stun part.

Test where?

Even if macc does work, it would be impractical to gear for it, since you'd be dropping haste, acc, or skill in every slot where applicable, barring aureole.

[Kanzo1]

Super hard to test for this but I honestly think the proc is random but the actual spell landing follows the same rule as other melee spells.

[BerenTebogo]

Eyeballed and completely unfounded small sample size of tests while farming stygian ash testing Morrigan's Coronal vs. Turban showed stun effect to last a bit longer with Morrigan's.

I hate even saying this since it's basically completely unfounded, but there it is.

[fantasticdan]

Dissector makes disseverment crit. I eyeballed it.

But seriously, even if you were to do a proper test with large sample size on identical same level mobs, 5 macc is not near enough to work with, let alone try to eyeball it on different level pixies.