So... supposedly the guys at Garland Tools can datamine whatever useful info the game has, no? Which is how they readily obtained details on the new abilities just before Early Access.
What is stopping them from finding and explicitly stating the damage/potency formulas for the game, if that information is available in the code?

As fun as it is to test theories, crunch numbers, and spam abilities on a dummy to collect data, if there is a way to get the REAL formulas, why are we not pursuing that route?