SWTOR formula list

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(01-13-2012 12:36 PM)LagunaD Wrote:  

(01-13-2012 05:27 AM)CaseyTheRetard Wrote:  2. Actual ability damage is uniformly distributed between the calculated minimum and maximum. It's effectively Uniform(StandardHealthPercentMin, StandardHealthPercentMax).

This is certainly a reasonable assumption, but do we really know this?

We can't know it for sure without large-scale testing data. Excluding the uniform distribution of values, the next most probable distribution is some sort of Gaussian function, other distributions do not make much sense here.
But even very small tests with just about 10 attacks which some people here have done (I too) often shows extreme values, very close to or exactly at minimal and maximal damage values counted for that attack. This is of course typical for uniform distribution of values​​, not Gaussian in which are mean values significantly more frequent than extremes.
So, it's either uniform distribution or something so close that we cannot tell difference. I think that best we can do is take it as uniform distribution until someone proves it's not true.