Spellpower influence formulas

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Spellpower influence formulas

Post by Char » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:59 pm

There is a general, underlying formula that determines the influence of spellpower. It is not always used directly, but it helps you to estimate how spellpower will influence your skills.
For direct-damage spells, when the spellpower is increasing the damage, it is usually directly applied as a synergy. Thus, if your spellpower influence value (how I call it) is 63, your skill will be doing 63% more damage (for example 163-326 instead of 100-200).

The formulas depend on the character. They are:

Barbarian: 100 * spellpower / (spellpower+150)
Paladin, Amazon: 200 * spellpower / (spellpower+400)
Druid, Asassin: 400 * spellpower / (spellpower+900)
Necro, Sorceress: 800 * spellpower / (spellpower+1900)

The formulas are designed to result in 40 if you have spellpower 100. The Barb gets lower bonuses after and higher before, while the Sorc and other caster chars get more after and less before. This means that it still is good to invest in spellpower if you already have 300 spellpower for a Sorc, while for a Paladin or Barbarian it is about useless.


Here, a little table that shows the effect better I guess:

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Spellpower     Barb       Pal/Ama   Druid/Assa    Nec/Sorc
    20          11           9           8           8
    50          25          22          21          20
   100          40          40          40          40
   200          57          66          72          76
   300          66          85         100         109
   400          72         100         123         139
   500          76         111         142         166
   600          80         120         160         192
Last edited by Char on Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:41 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: Spellpower influence formulas

Post by Maxx Power » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:50 pm

[quote=Char";p="262073"]
Druid, Asassin: 400 * spellpower * 200 / (spellpower+900)[/quote]

This should be 400 * Spellpower / (Spellpower + 900). The above formula gives ridiculously high values, whereas this amended once gives 40% at 100, which I assume is the right formula ;)

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Post by Char » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:24 pm

yeah, thats correct :). Copy - paste error.

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