The Mathematics of Warlockery - Page 4

Dehah · 03-30-2008, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Mezelline

Another thing about your function I'm curious about is that you add spell damage *after* the crit and base damage calculation. However, as murphjp pointed out a couple pages back (and I verified) base damage modifiers have no impact whatsoever on actual spelldamage amount/cap, however crits will increase the amount of damage you get from spelldamage irregardless if you're at the SD cap or not.

The Spell Damage is calculated in Step 4. Then added in step 6 after the base damage modifiers are applied.

ibwhiteboy19 · 04-05-2008, 02:09 PM

.... all this math hurts my head.

anyone have any asprin?

Mezelline · 04-05-2008, 11:30 PM

Dehah,

Ahh I think I see it now, again I think its semantics. Is your "base damage" listed in steps 1-4 is more like the intrinsic damage the spell does? Like before base mods like choker/brainstorm, which is a different value. I really like how your model easily explains how crits and base damage mod compound with each other. My only issue with your algrorithm is that it dictates that crits increase the SD cap/amount, when in practice it does not.

Cigam · 04-12-2008, 12:11 PM

my head hurts. Good post though