This power detail makes no sense!
By
Fleeting Whisper,
Posted on: 2011-09-15 24:19 in Player Questions
Are you looking at Damage Per Activation Time? Because if so, that is (Damage dealt/Activation Time), used in Damage Per Second (DPS) calculations. The longer a power's animation is, the lower its Damage Per Activation will be.
@Roderick
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No, the average damage, the first line. And the activation time is 1 second so they are the same regardless.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
Are you looking at Damage Per Activation Time? Because if so, that is (Damage dealt/Activation Time), used in Damage Per Second (DPS) calculations. The longer a power's animation is, the lower its Damage Per Activation will be.
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The top line average damage is higher than the bottom detail listed damage per effect...it just makes no sense...
You're probably looking at the extra damage Disintegrate grants to most Beam Rifle powers.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Single Shot does not get any bonus damage from Disintegrate. It instead gets -regen. So that's not it.|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
You're probably looking at the extra damage Disintegrate grants to most Beam Rifle powers.
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Additionally those that do get more dmg are called out.
For example Charged Shot:
Avg Dmg: 23.32
Damage per Activation time: 13.96
Activation time: 1.67
Details:
16.81 energy dmg on target
2.52 energy dmg on target (when disintegrated)
There is also a line that says:
1.08 energy damage for 11.00s on target
But Charged Shot does not to do a DoT. It can cause a DoT to appear on OTHER targets if the original target is disintegrated but never causes a DoT on the target you are hitting.
I think that line there is in error and is affecting the Average Damage calculation...but I'm not sure...because the wording of it is so strange. Normal DoTs say "3 ticks of X damage over Y seconds".
Ok so when in the char create screen I am looking at the detail info on a number of powers.
. Is the avg dmg listed just wrong?
When I go into Blaster and, say, electric blast things look normal. I see average damage of Charged Bolts is 10.25 and down at the bottom it says 10.25 damage. Perfect. Short Circuit says it does a DoT, the average damage = the total dmg of all ticks of the DoT, and doesn't include the bonus damage for electrified targets. That's what I expected.
Now I go into Beam Rifle. Single Shot says it does 16.76 average damage. But then below it just says 10.25 energy damage?!? And then it has a line "1.08 energy damage on target for 11 seconds" which isn't how the other DoTs are listed so I don't understand that line...Is that the disintegration spread effect or something? The description doesn't list it having any DoT other than the spread...
Any help would be appreciated