User:Bloonpauper/Damage
Added damage
Added damage, or flat damage, refers to the raw numerical damage rolls that form the basis of a skill's damage. An example of this modifier is Adds 1-4 Physical Damage to Attacks. The primary source of added damage for an attack is the weapon. The primary source of added damage for a spell is stated on the skill itself. Added damage on spells scale with gem levels.
These distinctions inform the conventional weapon choices for attack and spell builds. Attack builds use martial weapons, like bows, crossbows, quarterstaves, and maces. These weapons supply the added damage their skills depend on. Spell builds use caster weapons like wands and staves, which can roll caster modifiers and do not have any inherent martial stats. You could not attack with a wand even if a skill allowed it, because the wand would have no attack stats with which to inform the damage calculations.
Attack weapon
Tip
The text of an item's inherent stats will be blue when modified by a local modifier and grey otherwise.
Below are worked examples for the damage outputs for attack weapons.
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Highlighted is the weapon's base damage roll - "95-127". By default, every Advanced Leaden Greathammer will deal this much base physical damage. The damage of any hit with an attack with this weapon will be based upon this number.
To calculate the weapon's PDPS, average the roll ranges of the damage and multiply by the weapon's attacks per second. (94+127)/2 = 110.5 110.5 * 1.1 = 121.55 Because 20% quality means 20% more base damage and quality is relatively easy to get, multiply by 1.2 for 20% quality for a realistic number. Trade will use this number when showing DPS regardless of the weapon's actual quality. 121.55 * 1.2 = 145.86 This weapon's PDPS is 145.86. |
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