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Combat log question

telbasta7386telbasta7386 Member Posts: 761 Arc User
edited August 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
As long as I've been playing I've never really paid much attention to the combat log, but I'm working on a new plasma torpedo boat and during a Starbase One TFO today I got a pretty decent crit, so I went to look in the combat log and it looks like this:

Your Plasma Torpedo - Heavy III deals 120813 (85220) Kinetic Damage(Critical) to Klingon BortaS blr Battleship.

So, 120k is what showed up on the screen when the torpedo hit, but what does the 85220 in parentheses mean? Is that the damage that was resisted/negated (So the actual torpedo would've done over 200k to a target with no shields/resistance?) or something else entirely?
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  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,917 Arc User
    The number in parenthesis is the DPS
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    the number in parenthesis is the raw damage the weapon would have dealt before any calculations, either positive or negative​​
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  • telbasta7386telbasta7386 Member Posts: 761 Arc User
    Ok, which one of you is right? Lol
  • tagentagen Member Posts: 547 Arc User
    telbasta7386 wrote: »
    Ok, which one of you is right? Lol

    I have the happen in game when I ask a question. Someone will give me an answer, I'll say "thanks!", and then someone else will give the opposite answer. :/

    I thought the wiki would have a section on this, but if so I can't find it. Now I'm wondering what the answer is, too. I haven't paid much attention to the combat log yet. I spend most of my time trying to figure out what the microscopic debuff icons mean.
  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited February 2021
    > @telbasta7386 said:
    > Ok, which one of you is right? Lol

    @echatty is referring to the sum up of the combat log reader third party tool which would display the damage per second dealt within the parenthesis in its default settings.

    I can highly recommend to get it as it will put everything the build in combat log from the game recorded into context giving you a massive insight as to what has been going on in the previous fights. Without it the numbers have not much use for us players. The damage and DPS are only the tip of the iceberg by the way. Heals, damage taken, criticals, who in team did what, what on your ship did what... can all of sudden be seen and is beginning to make sense.

    https://www.sto-league.com/combatlogreader/
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  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,917 Arc User
    I'd go with Peter, he knows his charts
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,159 Arc User
    edited February 2021
    The first number is actual damage taken or done by you after calculations and...
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    the number in parenthesis is the raw damage the weapon would have dealt before any calculations, either positive or negative​​
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