Stat Calculations

In most MMO's you are discovering in secret how each stat works and the calculations through which to gain an advantage and sometimes sharing those calculations to the public. While this knowledge is important and pivotal the information is sometimes very unobvious, misleading or unshared. I don't know if others would agree but I would like to see a little more depth in explanation of stats and the true effects they have on us. When we are calculating, we as players know the obvious like dexterity is the main stat to physical accuracy and the calculations for physical accuracy. The issue I have is while that is true what are the calculations for how [stat x] impacts [stat y] statistically. Ex. Physical Mitigation and its impact on physical penetration. What are stat caps? What are the TRUE relationships between these stats? While these two stats may have no correlation, I am trying to make the point of stat effects on each other, on gear, on skills and how to calculate these. Is the stat additive or is it going off of the base stat? I like some of the calculations shown with some current spells but would appreciate more clarity.

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Sunboy

Ebonborn wrote: »

@Sunboy I think that the game becoming a math problem is inevitable at the highest levels. I would argue that the game becoming a little bit more of a math problem allows people without python or coding experience to compete with these people more. When you click your character screen or hover over a spell there are already numbers attached. I am just saying give us a book in the bottom right that explains our stats even more in detail. Whether or not you use that is up to you and how competitive you want to be. The competitive people will just gap you that much more if they have this information and you don't. It feels like you guys are choosing to be blind because you think most everyone else is blind. However, if there is one thing I have discovered in MMO's it's that information is POWER. Releasing the information gives less power to the people who are capable of discovering and withholding it from the rest of us. In turn you choosing to be blind is just putting you at a disadvantage until someone decides to release the information and by then you are already disadvantaged.

And if there is one thing i have discovered, it is that choosing to be blind sometimes makes things more entertaining. One real life example is alcohol, you sure can't see the world as it is under the influence or perform as well. But it sure is hella fun (done right, dont drink kids)

Otr

Sunboy wrote: »

Ebonborn wrote: »

@Sunboy I think that the game becoming a math problem is inevitable at the highest levels. I would argue that the game becoming a little bit more of a math problem allows people without python or coding experience to compete with these people more. When you click your character screen or hover over a spell there are already numbers attached. I am just saying give us a book in the bottom right that explains our stats even more in detail. Whether or not you use that is up to you and how competitive you want to be. The competitive people will just gap you that much more if they have this information and you don't. It feels like you guys are choosing to be blind because you think most everyone else is blind. However, if there is one thing I have discovered in MMO's it's that information is POWER. Releasing the information gives less power to the people who are capable of discovering and withholding it from the rest of us. In turn you choosing to be blind is just putting you at a disadvantage until someone decides to release the information and by then you are already disadvantaged.

And if there is one thing i have discovered, it is that choosing to be blind sometimes makes things more entertaining. One real life example is alcohol, you sure can't see the world as it is under the influence or perform as well. But it sure is hella fun (done right, dont drink kids)

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Sunboy

Otr wrote: »

Sunboy wrote: »

Ebonborn wrote: »

@Sunboy I think that the game becoming a math problem is inevitable at the highest levels. I would argue that the game becoming a little bit more of a math problem allows people without python or coding experience to compete with these people more. When you click your character screen or hover over a spell there are already numbers attached. I am just saying give us a book in the bottom right that explains our stats even more in detail. Whether or not you use that is up to you and how competitive you want to be. The competitive people will just gap you that much more if they have this information and you don't. It feels like you guys are choosing to be blind because you think most everyone else is blind. However, if there is one thing I have discovered in MMO's it's that information is POWER. Releasing the information gives less power to the people who are capable of discovering and withholding it from the rest of us. In turn you choosing to be blind is just putting you at a disadvantage until someone decides to release the information and by then you are already disadvantaged.

And if there is one thing i have discovered, it is that choosing to be blind sometimes makes things more entertaining. One real life example is alcohol, you sure can't see the world as it is under the influence or perform as well. But it sure is hella fun (done right, dont drink kids)

wood alcohol

i see what you did there lol

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