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

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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.

Worked examples

Item image	Explanation
	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. First, 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.
	The weapon's damage range is already displayed as 548-818, but we'll work it out from the stats to learn how it works. Note that the text is in blue to show that's its been modified by a local modifier. First, take the base physical damage - it's the same base as before, so it's the same 95-127. Add the flat damage from the Adds 40 to 73 Damage prefix modifier. (94-127) + (40-73) = (134-200) Apply the % increases. Note that there is one source for 201% on the prefixes and another for 40% on an enchantment from two Iron RuneIron RuneStack Size: 10Requires Level 15Martial Weapon: 16% increased Physical Damage Armour: 16% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield Wand or Staff: 25% increased Spell DamagePlace into an empty Rune Socket in a Weapon or Armour to apply its effect to that item. Once socketed it cannot be retrieved but can be replaced by other socketable items.s. Because they modify the same stat and they both say increased, they add for 241% (instead of multiplying to 281.4%.) (134-200) * 3.41 = (456.94-682) Account for quality to show that our calculations are consistent with the display: (460.35-682) * 1.2 = (548-818) Account for attack speed and average for our PDPS. Note that the attack speed has been modified by a local suffix modifier to 1.3 from 1.1. (548+818)/2 * 1.3 = 887.9 PDPS This demonstrates the importance of a well-rolled weapon - a build using this weapon will deal over six times the DPS than one using the first.
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