Why is my character so bad at throwing?

[Strun]

Battling pets. You can hate it or love it, but there's one thing that gets on everyone's nerves: seeing the endless stream of "Miss"es as you try to capture that elusive pet. "Your chance of capture is increased by 25% with each failed attempt". So, after you fail 4 times, if you started with a capture chance of 0%, you should have a 100% chance of capturing the next time, right? Wrong? More misses await you! So, my question is, does my character just have a REALLY horrible aim?

(http://darklegacycomics.com/418.html I'm just going to leave this here)

[hutchzilla]

It seems to me that it isn't guaranteed - we all miss way too often if our chances on throw #3 are actually 75%. Math says, as does the text, that the chance is increased by 25%. So:

Try 1 = base %
Try 2 = Try 1 x 1.25
Try 3 = Try 2 x 1.25

etc. We don't know the base percentage, but let's say it's 40%. It would then follow that:

Try 1 = 40%
Try 2 = 50%
Try 3 = 63%
Try 4 = 78%

I don't know about everyone else but my results after catching 200 battle pets reflect this model much more than 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.

This is from a post on wowhead, I thought the same as you a while ago

[Granyala]

Characters miss, so Blizzard could build in better traps as achievement rewards.

I know it's stupid, but so is the whole idea of pet battles.
Cutle little creatures beating each other to a pulp?
If I'm not mistaken, in real life, that's against the law.

[Raiju]

Characters miss, so Blizzard could build in better traps as achievement rewards.

I know it's stupid, but so is the whole idea of pet battles.
Cutle little creatures beating each other to a pulp?
If I'm not mistaken, in real life, that's against the law.

Yes, pet battles are the exception of what is against the law in real life, but done in wow. Not like 90% of the game falls within those boundaries.

[Arrashi]

Be happy you aren't throwing grenades then

But yeah it seems to be one of those "pointless and annoying" things just to add a little difficulty where its not needed. Having someone who battles demons and undead being incapable of overwhelming squirrel is hilarious.

[Sal the Shieldhog]

Characters miss, so Blizzard could build in better traps as achievement rewards.

I know it's stupid, but so is the whole idea of pet battles.
Cutle little creatures beating each other to a pulp?
If I'm not mistaken, in real life, that's against the law.

So is killing dragons. I mean, what's with Blizzard, having us kill tons of members of an endangered species.