SWTOR formula list

[Kaedis]

Quote:1. I'm very confused about StandardHealth. Do I use the level that I first learned the ability or the level that I last learned a new rank? And is there a source for this information? TORHead sometimes give the level it can be learned but doesn't give a level/rank breakdown.

Level that you last learned a new rank, for baseline abilities. For abilities from skill points, current character level. Technically, there's a chart of rank levels in the nodeviewer, but it's in a different location from the actual ability date (a location I've forgotten), and is a pain to read.

Quote:2. How do ability tree skills factor in such as damage increases? I've noticed for example that when I spec Corrosive Dart to increase the duration by 3 seconds that the tooltip reflects the additional time but does not add in the damage for an additional tick.

The tooltips are notoriously buggy like that. The talent doesn't actually changed how much damage each tick deals, so adding a tick does increase the damage (this has been tested ad nauseum), the tooltips simply don't update the damage value (hell, Affliction (Sorcerer) always displays its damage as if it had 6 ticks, despite having 5 baseline and 7 skilled).

Quote:3. For coefficient and StandardHealthPercents are these carved in stone or can spec/skills modify them?

Carved in stone. Most skills and abilities only apply multipliers to the final damage, not the the base coefficients. In the case of the very few that do (most of which are AC passives), the skills actually have a separate coefficient entry within the ability file. For example, Shock has 4 different profiles listed in its entry: one for Assassin Shock (which is supposed to be 25% more powerful than Sorc, but is actually only about 18.5%), one for Sorcerer Shock, one for the half-damage Chain Shock effect for Assassins, and one for the half-damage Chain Shock effect for Sorcerer.