SWTOR formula list

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(03-24-2012 07:58 AM)LagunaD Wrote:  Just for future reference, in every instance I've seen, going back to when I was figuring out the DR formula in beta and had to experiment with fits for rounded, truncated, etc possibilities, numbers are always rounded to the nearest displayed digit.

Quote:The only evidence for this was that GZ claimed they changed them all

True, and they also claimed that Ataru Form damage was increased by 10%, when it was actually decreased by 20-25%. So this may be another case of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

Looking deeper into healing changes I just found that Kolto Cloud / Recuperative Nanotech took an ~11% decrease in total healing despite the Patch Notes saying it got a 10% increase.

Quote of my post on the topic from the SWTOR forum:

Quote:The only ability that was changed was Kolto Cloud.

Live Stats:
Cooldown: 12s
Ticks: 5 ticks, 3s interval, 15s duration
Coefficient: 0.386
Base Heal: 136.032 (no variability)

PTS Stats:
Cooldown: 15s
Ticks: 6 ticks, 1s interval, 6s duration
Coefficient: 0.286
Base Heal: 100.607 (no variability)

What I call "Base Heal" is how much it will heal for if you had zero bonus healing, and is a fixed number. For some abilities this is a range, but the min and max are the same for HoT effects.

Strangely, this appears to be a nerf to the healing done! The faster time clearly increases the utility of the ability, but the Patch Notes said the total healing was increased by ~10%. Instead it was reduced by ~11%.

The value for the healing of a single tick is:

Tick Heal = coefficient*(Bonus Healing) + (Base Heal).

Multiply by the number of ticks to get the total healing.

For illustration, let's assume 450 Bonus Healing.
Old KC/RN: 1548.66 total
New KC/RN: 1375.842 total

New/Old = 88.84% or an 11.16% reduction.

Keep in mind that the old one had a 15s duration but a 12s cooldown, and the new is 6s, but with a 15s cooldown. This means in 4 man content you can still only cast it exactly as often as before (no point clipping in Live). In 8-16 man content, you could actually cast it at 12s on a second group, which would give you an extra tick by the 15s point and further reduces the group healing of the ability. If you consider this 6th tick on a second group, the total healing was actually reduced by 26%.

These numbers are all per person, for the total of the ability just multiply by 4, but all of the ratios will remain the same, so the nerf % is the same still.

If I made a mistake, please let me know, but as of right now this looks to not only show zero change when we were told there were positive changes, but, in fact, shows a negative change where we were told it was positive.