Comic #707: More Mathematics (Patreon)

This is a successor to the last Mathematics comic I did (#586).

I had to do some reconnaissance in the game to figure out the actual 70% figure. I sat watching the Honey Smasher in Stormsong Valley and recorded it's health increases as players joined the fight. Thankfully it turned out to be a really simple equation.

I had always wondered in the game if it was possible to make a mob unkillable by having people constantly join the fight, increasing its health. The answer is no, because while the health does increase, the mob's percentage health is preserved, so you'll slowly wear it down. But the time it takes to kill the boss approaches infinity as the number of seconds per player approaches zero.

I didn't show this on Narya's whiteboard, but I did calculate the time if a new player joined every 5 seconds. 20 hours.