Focus Effects
From EQ Clerics Wiki
Focus Effects improve the performance of spells. They can increase healing, increase damage, reduce spell cast time and reduce spell mana cost. Focus effect are targeted towards a specific level of spell being cast, spells under the target level receive the full benefit of the effect. Spells over the target level degrade at the rate of 5% of the effect per level. i.e. A 20% focus looses 1% per level over the max target level. (A 20% focus with a target level of 65 would receive a focus effect up to 15% on a level 70 spell.)
Focus effects are subject to the random number generator, a 65% focus effect will not improve every spell focused to 65%, it will instead improve the spell from 1%-65%.
For the purposes of this article focus effects are split between Raid and Group obtained foci.
Effects of Focus Degradation on a 30% focus, target level of 70. This focus degrades at the rate 1.5% per level. Of note, is that Everquest uses integer math so decimals are truncated.
| Spell Level | Degradation | Actual Degradation |
|---|---|---|
| 70 | 30 | 30 |
| 71 | 28.5 | 28 |
| 72 | 27 | 27 |
| 73 | 25.5 | 25 |
| 74 | 24 | 24 |
| 75 | 22.5 | 22 |
| 76 | 21 | 21 |
| 77 | 19.5 | 19 |
| 78 | 18 | 18 |
| 79 | 16.5 | 16 |
| 80 | 15 | 15 |
