Warriors - How to fix our damage mitigation

[Hachiko]

Kindly forward me to this analysis.

Here is mine. But I have WAR slightly higher because I wasn't counting Storm's Eye for the PLD.

http://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVTC/comm...dps_pld_v_war/

This is 100% false
make two identical characters one warrior and one gladiator at lvl 1
Weathered Axe with 150 potency attack does 9-10 Damage
Weathered Sword with 150 potency attack does 6-7 Damage
tested on lvl 1 lady bug

Both have a physical damage of 5, so clearly the damage on weapons is not IDENTICAL or there would not be a 30% discrepancy, it seems damage is calculated based off the auto-attack damage when using abilities not the physical damage listed.

These numbers are right, but the analysis is not right. IIRC the Class starts out with a 1-2 attack power difference, and I can't remember if they have different determination.

You can see it's not true that damage is calculated off of weapon attack by using a high level character and doing the math.

A 150 potency attack is going to be 1.5 * your "base" damage. So to get an estimate of your auto attack damage, divide your Fast Blade damage / 1.5. Then multiply it by the normalization factor: Weapon speed / 3. This will return your auto attack damage, or a reasonable estimate. This sort of works for lvl 1 characters but doesn't work great because their dmg is so low. Fast Blade = 7 dmg / 1.5 * 2 / 3 = 3.1 or 6/1.5 * 2/3 = 2.6. This returns your auto attack damage.

If potency attacks were modifying your auto attack damage without normalization, these formulas wouldn't work, and the damage would be different.

I think this pretty well proves that damage is normalized.