Abilities and such

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:06:31  Last edited on 07-Apr-2013 07:36:47 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
This thread was made so people can gain a better understanding of how certain abilities work, because the descriptions given in the game are a bit lacking and oftentimes completely wrong.

Let's begin.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:06:36  Last edited on 10-Apr-2013 09:45:33 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Here's some info on how I have gathered data so far.

Critical hits are extremely important. For most abilities, critical hits always hit at the same value, that value being the maximum hit. This can vary depending on pots/prayers etc, so I always test things without these. If I get a critical hit on an NPC with Slice (an ability that does 125% weapon damage) and it crits at 1250, I would know that Punish (100% weapon damage against an opponent that isn't stunned) crits at 1000 without even having to test it. Of course, I would still test it just to be sure, but these things have always remained true against an NPC.

There is also a minimum hit, which after many hours of testing I have concluded to be 25% of an abilities maximum hit (some abilities, such as Overpower and Meteor Strike, have higher minimum hits). I have yet to find an ability which hits lower than that. This means that for most abilities, the average hit SHOULD be 62.5% of it's maximum, assuming that all hits between 25-100% of the max hit are equally as likely. If a minimum hit is found to be something other than 25% for a specific ability, it will be noted.

So what does weapon damage refer to?

It's supposed to be somewhat based on the damage stat, but going by that will yield unreliable results even if using weapons of the fastest attack speed. It is intuitive to think that weapon damage refers to the damage stat for your weapon on the equipment screen, but shockingly enough, it does not.

The more reliable method of finding out exactly what this means is by simply working backwards from your ability damage values.

Anyways, that is enough talk.

Let's get into some abilities!



DISCLAIMER: Some abilities work differently depending on whether you are fighting an NPC or a player.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:06:41  Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 15:18:50 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Here is a list of abilities that do not do what their description indicates.

Havoc
Crits at 125% weapon damage.

Slaughter
Bleeds the target 4 times for 80-200% weapon damage total.
120% appears to be the average due to the minimum hit being much more common than the maximum hit. Damage triples for every bleed your target isn't on the square the ability hit it at.

Massacre
Crits at 196% weapon damage.
Bleeds the target 5 times for a total of 327% weapon damage, separate from the initial hit.

Punish
Crits at 100% weapon damage (not stunned) or 135% weapon damage (stunned) against NPCs. In PvP, this ability crits at 94% weapon damage instead of 100%. Does 125% weapon damage against stunned players.

Dismember
Bleeds the target 6 times for 125% weapon damage total (usually slightly less due to rounding issues). Against players, also has an initial hit that crits at 100% weapon damage.

Fury
Crits at 94% weapon damage and hits 4 times.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:06:48  Last edited on 13-Apr-2013 12:44:33 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Decimate
Crits at 125% weapon damage (no shield) or 210% weapon damage (shield)
Does not do bonus damage on NPCs wearing shields.

Berserk
Multiplies both damage dealt and received by 2.

Frenzy
Hits 4 times.
Against an NPC, the first hit crits at 180% and each subsequent hit is increased by 20% (so 180%, 200%, 220%, 240%). Each individual hit cannot hit lower than 45% of the maximum hit. Against players, Frenzy appears to do exactly what Fury's description says. Four hits that all crit at 150% weapon damage.

Snipe
Crits at 210% weapon damage.
Cannot hit under 45% of max hit.

Binding Shot
Crits at 100% weapon damage whilst stunning.

Fragmentation Shot
Bleeds the target 3 times for 60-105% weapon damage total.
70% appears to be the average due to the minimum hit being much more common than the maximum hit. Damage triples for every bleed your target isn't on the square the ability hit it at.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:06:54  Last edited on 06-Apr-2013 04:10:40 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Death's Swiftness
Multiplies your ranged damage dealt by 1.5 against NPCs.
NPC targets within the shroud are dealt between 6.5-13% weapon damage every 3-4 game ticks.
Multiplies your ranged damage dealt by 1.25 against players.
Players within the shroud are dealt between 10-20% weapon damage every 3-4 game ticks.

Unload
Hits 4 times.
Against an NPC, the first hit crits at 180% and each subsequent hit is increased by 20% (so 180%, 200%, 220%, 240%). Each individual hit cannot hit lower than 45% of the maximum hit. Against players, Unload appears to do exactly what Fury's description says (except with ranged instead of melee). Four hits that all crit at 150% weapon damage.

Deadshot
Crits at 188% weapon damage.
Bleeds the target 5 times for a total of 262% weapon damage, separate from the initial hit.

Impact
Crits at 100% weapon damage whilst stunning.

Asphyxiate
Crits at 188% weapon damage.
Hits 4 times whilst stunning.

Detonate
At no charge, crits at 70% weapon damage.
At full charge, crits at 350% weapon damage.

Wild Magic
Hit 1 crits at 219% weapon damage.
Hit 2 crits at 176% weapon damage.

Metamorphosis
Multiplies magic damage by 1.25

Tsunami
Crits at 300% damage against NPCs.
Crits at 250% damage against players.

Sunshine
Multiplies magic damage by 1.5 against NPCs.
NPC targets within the beam are dealt between 2.5-5% weapon damage every 3-4 game ticks.
Multiplies magic damage by 1.25 against players.
Players within the beam are dealt between 6.5-13% weapon damage every 3-4 game ticks.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:07:01  Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 14:44:21 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Resonance
Heals you for the amount you would have been hit.
In PvP, all abilities appear to do about 80% (slightly more) as much damage as they do against NPCs. Resonance uses the true damage value for calculating the amount healed, not the reduced value that you would normally see in PvP.

Revenge
Increases your damage based on how many times you have been hit while active. It appears to increase damage output by ~7.5% per attack received on average. More data is needed.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:07:06  Last edited on 13-Apr-2013 12:45:35 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
The following abilities only take 4.2 seconds to complete as opposed to the time it indicates in their descriptions:

Flurry
Fury
Destroy
Assault
Frenzy
Rapid Fire
Unload
Asphyxiate




DoT abilities do not appear to be affected by anything other than level and weapon used. Prayers/dungeoneering rings appear to have no effect on them.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:07:19  Last edited on 03-Jun-2013 00:34:50 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Special thanks to PluralLeaf, S a n e y, and Yvay for helping me gather quite a bit of the data for this.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:07:31  Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 14:52:18 by Lavitz Eh Quote Profile Highlight
Special post in memory of all the delicious food consumed during the process of testing various abilities.

Lavitz Eh
04-Apr-2013 21:08:00 Quote Profile Highlight
That's probably enough.

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