Shield Slam math: what am I missing?
Posted 03-21-2008 at 05:31 PM by thugthedum
I'm not asking for the 12k formula, but - in Excel I can't even get over 6k or so w/o taking talents you cant have at the same time like enrage and Death Wish.
Here's what I (think) I know:
* Shield Mastery means my 500 block (armory) means a 650 SBV (in game). So there's the 1.3.
* The shield slam ability adds 420-440 base damage (let's call it 430 shall we?)
* Impale would mean a crit is 2.2 instead of 2.0.
* 1h specialization gives me another 10%.
* Death Wish, if I have it, would give me another 20%.
* I think these are multiplicative, not additive.
so:
(650 + 430) * 1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 3,136
or with one trinket:
(650 + 260 + 430) * 1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 3,891
or with two trinkets:
(650 + 520 + 430) * 1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 4,646
let's go crazy and assume 1000 BV and all the fixins:
(1000 + 520 + 430) *1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 5,662
Now, I don't have impale or Death Wish and I don't have the Nax trinket tho I do have 1h spec, so my actual crit math looks like this:
(650 + 260 + 430) * 1.1 * 2 = 2,948
The highest crit I've bragged about in guild chat though was like 2100 in PVP. Best raid crit (I don't wear my [Nexus-Guard's Pauldrons] in a raid of course) is 4074 on the curator, ignoring Curator's Evocate the best is 1730 on KZ trash.
Where are my 3k crits? How come even in Excel I can't make up even the 7k crits that seem to be the low end of the high end?
All my calcs completely ignore amor, so unless armor pen gives people negative armor somehow that's not it. What am I missing?
Here's what I (think) I know:
* Shield Mastery means my 500 block (armory) means a 650 SBV (in game). So there's the 1.3.
* The shield slam ability adds 420-440 base damage (let's call it 430 shall we?)
* Impale would mean a crit is 2.2 instead of 2.0.
* 1h specialization gives me another 10%.
* Death Wish, if I have it, would give me another 20%.
* I think these are multiplicative, not additive.
so:
(650 + 430) * 1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 3,136
or with one trinket:
(650 + 260 + 430) * 1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 3,891
or with two trinkets:
(650 + 520 + 430) * 1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 4,646
let's go crazy and assume 1000 BV and all the fixins:
(1000 + 520 + 430) *1.1 * 1.2 * 2.2 = 5,662
Now, I don't have impale or Death Wish and I don't have the Nax trinket tho I do have 1h spec, so my actual crit math looks like this:
(650 + 260 + 430) * 1.1 * 2 = 2,948
The highest crit I've bragged about in guild chat though was like 2100 in PVP. Best raid crit (I don't wear my [Nexus-Guard's Pauldrons] in a raid of course) is 4074 on the curator, ignoring Curator's Evocate the best is 1730 on KZ trash.
Where are my 3k crits? How come even in Excel I can't make up even the 7k crits that seem to be the low end of the high end?
All my calcs completely ignore amor, so unless armor pen gives people negative armor somehow that's not it. What am I missing?
Total Comments 5
Comments
 | you are not taking into account for armor? i'm not sure on that, but it would be what is missing from your fomulae |
Posted 03-22-2008 at 02:22 AM by Trainwrex  |
| | That only makes the damage lower, instead of higher as he'd like to see. There are at least two things you're missing: battlegrounds berserking buff, and enemy deathwish. That should bump it up somewhat. |
| Posted 03-22-2008 at 04:02 AM by Khordam |
| | sorry, i was saying thats why is dmg is less than calculated |
| Posted 03-22-2008 at 01:14 PM by Trainwrex |
| |  enemy death wish! of course. also the zangarmarsh 5%, though that's not the same as the 30% from berserking. |
| Posted 03-24-2008 at 08:40 AM by thugthedum |
| | wow, if only negative armor existed. |
| Posted 03-24-2008 at 04:27 PM by thugthedum |
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