for the lovely math pros in the archer forums...

Hmm just add the % to the number you hit for

Olba - Sanctuary wrote: »

(Weapon Attack + Adds)*(1+Skills+(Dex/150))*(1+Attack Level)

As far as I can tell, this is the formula:
Damage Per Hit: (DPH) (for ranged weapons)
((1+(2/3*Dex)/100)*Masteries)*(Lvl + EQA) + Weapon Atk*(firemastery/100) +ElementalShardDmg)*(1+(Crit Rate+1)/100)*(1+Attack Level/100)

Damage Per Second:
DPH * Attacks per second (APS)

Equipment Attack (EQA) is the average of low and high end of your weapon + refines + garnet shard added dmg + added damage from ornaments and ammo. Weapon Atk as far as I know is only the average damage of your weapon.

There are additional mods that also apply involving terrain (ground <-> water = 1/2 dmg, air <-> ground = 1/2 dmg) as well as a minimum effective distance. There is an attack modifier for PvP as well, which does not apply to attack charms (i.e. when used on a player they'll add full damage).

This will give you raw damage dealt, which will be lower depending on the specific defenses of whatever you're attacking.

This was probably more than you wanted to know, and probably not 100% accurate.

Cyanea - Lost City wrote: »

I have attempted to fix your post for you.

Blazing arrow is not modified by user's level, so it should not be in any damage factor that multiplies it by level, which is why it is included outside of the standard damage calculation. I did take out spark and forgot to put it back in though b:surrender. Elemental shards were not included in your formula.

I also added one to the critical chance as everyone has 1% chance to crit without dex and crit modifiers, but if we just say "actual critical chance" your formula is more accurate.

Revised:
DPH (ranged) Average:
((1+(2*Dex/300)+bow mastery+spark)*(Lvl + EQA)+ EQA*(Blazing Arrow/100) + Elemental Shards)*(1+Attack Level/100) * (1 + critical chance / 100)

Damage Per Second (average):

DPH * Attacks per second (APS)

I keep critical hits in the DPH as crits are naturally occurring with regular attacks, but the DPS result is the same. I've revised the title of the DPH to be DPH (Average) to be more accurate, but I assumed an average since we already averaged the weapons low and high values.

Cyanea - Lost City wrote: »

But blazing arrow gives you a percent of your "weapon attack".

And, your level is a part of your damage from your weapon attack.

If you take a screenshot of your character sheet before you level and again after you level, you will see that your physical attack goes up when you level. The amount your physical attack goes up will be (1 + 2 * dex / 300).

If you spark before you level and you spark after you level, and you examine your character sheet (with the same gear, obviously) you will see the same difference, except with a bonus based on your spark multiplier.

If you want me to believe that blazing arrow does not follow the same rules, I would like you to provide me with some reason to believe you.

Unfortunately, level 102 is many 10s of millions of experience away. Your level does influence your damage, but it does not change your weapon damage. Proving this, even with a low level character would be exceptionally difficult as the margins on a per level gain would be small and would require many many hits to reach a level of significance AND a significant amount of stat redistribution scrolls to unalloate stat points. In short, I've better things to do with my time and coin.

We all know skill descriptions are not 100% accurate-- hell, sage blazing arrow description was changed in game when it was perfectly accurate. However, every account of the skill I've read says that the skill increases damage by XX% of your weapon damage. If we are to take this literally (which is dangerous, given the erroneous nature of skill descriptions), it means that this is the EQA average of the weapon alone, not modified by ornaments, attack charms or shot.

I think we'll agree to disagree since neither of us can prove the other incorrect. Since it is elemental damage we're talking about, I calculate it along side shard elemental damage. In the end, the difference in damage between the two proposed formulas is so small it isn't even worth debating.

o-o esh i got lost b:surrenderb:cry

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