Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[TheKingSlayer]

Whiskeybravo, the way to calculate the additional dmg is to multiple by the potency by the percentage buff. Example:

300 x 15% = 45 thus 300 + 45 = 345 potency
Or
300 x 85% = 255, subtract that from 300 (300-255=45)

When you divide 300 by .85 you're finding the number that 300 is 85% of... Or 352.94 x .85 = 300. This is NOT the correct way to find percentage buffs

As well the percentages are multiplicative, meaning with HT your 100 potency skill is hitting for 115. After disembowel (10% buff) the new potency is 126.5 (115 x 10%) instead of 125. This also applies to B4B. Best to go back and read the first page Avyar breaks it all down. I'm doing a terrible explanation.

[Spartan117]

Whiskeybravo, the way to calculate the additional dmg is to multiple by the potency by the percentage buff. Example:

300 x 15% = 45 thus 300 + 45 = 345 potency
Or
300 x 85% = 255, subtract that from 300 (300-255=45)

When you divide 300 by .85 you're finding the number that 300 is 85% of... Or 352.94 x .85 = 300. This is NOT the correct way to find percentage buffs

As well the percentages are multiplicative, meaning with HT your 100 potency skill is hitting for 115. After disembowel (10% buff) the new potency is 126.5 (115 x 10%) instead of 125. This also applies to B4B. Best to go back and read the first page Avyar breaks it all down. I'm doing a terrible explanation.

I think you did fine explaining.

it's just original potency X Total DMG+ Buffs X DMG+ from resistance reduction. That's general rule for weapon skills and auto attacks.


Then we open a can of worms by discussing whether DoT damage is reduced by piercing resistance (Disembowl) or magic resistance (Foe Requiem)...

DoT tick damage btw is determined at the time of application, so if you apply the DoT with your buffs up, the tick damage remains at the higher value for the subsequent ticks until the DoT wears off.

[TheKingSlayer]

I think you did fine explaining.

Then we open a can of worms by discussing whether DoT damage is reduced by piercing resistance (Disembowl) or magic resistance (Foe Requiem)...

Thanks, I was half asleep trying to do the math when I wrote it

The DoT damage is NOT increased by the piercing debuffs, only the initial skill is. The initial potency of the phleb or CT skill is given the piercing debuff but the DoT ticks unfortunately don't get the benefit.

Spartan is spot on with the snapshot of buffs and ticks. Not that this would every really happen, but if for example B4B, HT, and IR all have 1 sec left when you applied chaos thrust, all the ticks over the next 30 secs from CT will buffed by those three even though they fell off immediately after application.

[whiskeybravo]

Best to go back and read the first page Avyar breaks it all down. I'm doing a terrible explanation.

That's how I have been calculating except I had a second thought about the math and wanted to be sure before publishing any results xD

Thanks!