SWTOR formula list

[vislor01]

(12-28-2011 08:07 PM)LagunaD Wrote:  

(12-28-2011 07:44 PM)Salion Wrote:  

(12-28-2011 04:08 AM)vislor01 Wrote:  Looking in NodeViewer for my Scoundrel (Sawbones) I noticed that there are 50 ranks of the 3 skilled heal abilities listed (1 through 50)

I'm curious, where did you find the skill ranks listed? I haven't been able to find where they are.

It is under the branch "pkg/abilities/class/advancedClass/skillTree".

For each ability, you will find a list named "ablAbilityDataRanks".

For trained abilities (where skillTree has the value "base"), this list corresponds to the levels at which new ranks are trainable.

For skilled abilities, there is a list from 1-50, which suggests that a new "rank" is acquired every level, although none of the half-dozen damaging abilities I've checked actually behaves that way.

I'm confident that at least for Slow Release Medpac it is using rank 35 for my Smuggler right now. I have some in-game data for Emergency Medpac (another skilled abillity first available at level 30), I will run that tonight (I"m not high enough level to get Kolto Cloud yet, it is first available at level 40).

I also have a level 45 Commando, I can respec him heals and run some tests on his heal skills to see if I notice the same behavior there.

Some thoughts as to why I am seeing this are that it applies to heals, not damage; or maybe it applies to periodic abilities; or maybe it applies when MinStandardHealthPct and MaxStandardHealthPct are equal (which they are in this case and for Kolto Cloud which I will test when I get it); or finally maybe there's another flag in there somewhere that indicates to apply this kind of behavior.

I can send / post my in-game observations and my calculations later this evening when I get home from work if anyone would like to double check me.