Damage and Healing formula

[Masterkiller]

(10-24-2011 04:20 PM)Freehugs Wrote:  Is anyone working on this stuff other than me?

I have been living this formula night and day, so yes I definitely am. Kore I dont think will respond to me on IM any more! Unfortunately I've been in Miami for the last week and won't get back to work on it until Wednesday.

Here is my current theory:
[(X * rank modifier) + Weapon + (Bonus * Coef)] * (1+amountmodifier)

Having (1+amountmodifier) as the final multiplier is how Assault is around 45-50% of Weapon+Bonus damage. Prior to (1+amountmodifier) there appears to be 3 terms. If you only use 2 terms, being weapon damage with multipler and bonus damage with multiplier, they scale much to quickly when you increase or decrease weapon damage or bonus damage. Meaning if you have 44 bonus damage and you have a static multiplier of 1.5 or whatever, the result will deviate quickly when you start adding or subtracting bonus damage. Same with weapon damage.

Kore posted a formula that had the same basic principle, although I feel pretty strongly that standarddamageperlevel is not a part of the melee damage (I could be wrong I just haven't seen how it would be possible). Using the formula above, I am within 1 point of tooltip damage for rank 3 Vicious Slash with increasing and decreasing bonus damage and weapon damage. It works. When I go to rank 4, I adjust the X amount to fit the formula and it once again works. I don't think rank touches the bonus damage or weapon damage multiplier .

One reason I believe weapon damage isn't modified, is when switching out weapons the final tooltip amount changes almost directly to the amount of change on the weapon. (1+amountmodifier) for Vicious Slash is 1.01 or so I believe (dont have info in front of me) which is why the above holds true.

I also believe that bonus damage is multiplied directly by the coefficient xml amount. When I had a scale of rank 3 VS with changing bonus damage, I could take the tooltip amount of the lowest bonus damage datapoint, and the highest amount of bonus damage, multiply the rest of equation and then multiply the bonus damage * coef and it works (for any bonus damage datapoint).

Maybe I can post some of the spreadsheet page I was using for this from the hotel room tonight. But no Freehugs, you aren't the only one working on it!

-edit- The X in the equation I have not determined where it comes from yet. For rank 3 VS it was 96. For rank 4 VS it was 121.

Example 1 Rank 3 VS:
Max tooltip: 241
Max Weapon damage: 95
Bonus Damage: 28.8
amountmodifierpercent: 0.0199
coefficient: 1.53999
X = 97

[(X * rank modifier) + Weapon + (Bonus * Coef)] * (1+amountmodifier)
[(97) + 95 + (28.8 * 1.53999)] * (1+.0199)
(192 + 44.349) * 1.0199
241.05

Example 2 Rank 3 VS (with different bonus damage amount):
Max tooltip: 249
Max Weapon damage: 95
Bonus Damage: 34
amountmodifierpercent: 0.0199
coefficient: 1.53999
X = 97

[(X * rank modifier) + Weapon + (Bonus * Coef)] * (1+amountmodifier)
[(97) + 95 + (34 * 1.53999)] * (1+.0199)
244.356 * 1.0199
249.219

Example 3 Rank 3 VS (with different weapon and bonus damage amount):
Max tooltip: 220
Max Weapon damage: 83
Bonus Damage: 23.6
amountmodifierpercent: 0.0199
coefficient: 1.53999
X = 97

[(X * rank modifier) + Weapon + (Bonus * Coef)] * (1+amountmodifier)
[(97) + 83 + (23.6 * 1.53999)] * (1+.0199)
(180 + 36.3416) * 1.0199
220.646

This last example is barely off when rounded up, which most likely has to do with decimals somewhere along the way.