Damage

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Damage

Upgrades and items have two main ways of enhancing your damage: base damage (Attack/Skill Effects) and power scaling (Attack/Skill Power).
Note: Skill Effects currently only applies magical damage to Primary Attacks.

To calculate primary attack damage, convert percentages to decimal then use the following:

(phys_base + phys_item_damage) * (1 + (0.02 * AP)) * MULTIPLIER * DMG_INCREASE * (1 - 1/(1 + enemy_armor) +
(mage_base + mage_item_damage) * (1 + (0.02 * AP)) * MULTIPLIER * DMG_INCREASE * (1 - 1/(1 + enemy_resistance)

Enemy defense:

• armor: (1 - ((1 - armor_pierce%) * (enemy_base_armor/4 if Shield Breaker active))/50)
• resistance: (1 - ((1 - resistance_pierce%) * (enemy_base_resistance/4 if Magebane Active))/50)

DMG_INCREASE = ∑ all item +damage% and damage increase on crits MULTIPLIER = ∏ (1 + Tavern drink damage bonus) &forall Tavern drinks, Chapel bonuses, and some items such as Amulet of Decay and Seal of the Martyr.

• • ∏ is the symbol for multiplying one after another, opposed to summing one after another when doing ∑

Damage Calculator

Damage Types

Items that increase base damage (physical or magical), attack power, or mentions that it is applied to primary attacks exclusively increase the strength of your primary attack.

Items that increase skill power, skill crit chance, skill crit multiplier increase the damage of EVERY OTHER damage source. This will even enhance the base damage of reflected damage or passives such as Paladin Juggernaut and Priest Celestial Orbs.

Armor penetration and magic penetration is specific to the damage type of your skill or primary attack. Note that hybrid damage does half physical and half magical damage so primaries and skills will only receive 50% effective benefit out of any penetration items/buffs.

Critical Chance

Critical chance is calculated a bit strangely in this game. Each source of crit chance is independently rolled for either a positive or a negative outcome to determine if it crits or not. If you have two sources of crit and you roll both crits for a positive outcome you can get 4x damage.

For example, if you have two items and one gives 20% crit chance and another gives 10% crit chance, 20%*(100%-10%)+10%*(100%-20%)=26% of the time you will do 2x damage, and 20%*10%=2% of the time you will do 4x damage!

Damage output = (Damage) * (1 + Crit multiplier) * N, N=number of positive rolls from different sources of crit chance

e.g. 50 base damage, 4 sources of crit but only 3 rolled a positive event, with each crit being + 50% damage:
Damage output = (50)(1+1.5)*3 = 375 damage

Damage Reduction

See Armor