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[aznricepuff]

Updated 07/25/16

 

I think it's pretty obvious by now that there are a lot of aspects of combat that aren't well-documented anywhere, leaving us to essentially figure stuff out as we go. It's not very fun trying to build and optimize your party when you don't know what your choices ultimately mean in terms of gameplay, so I decided to conduct some tests in an effort to de-mystify some of DA:I's less transparent combat mechanics.
 
Below is a summary of my findings; hopefully it clarifies things and answers some common questions people have. I've included descriptions of mechanics that aren't explained in-game and clarifications where in-game descriptions are incomplete, misleading or incorrect. I've also made note of bugs where I was able to find and confirm them.
 
Please keep in mind this is not an exhaustive list when it comes to clarifications or bugs; just because it isn't listed here does not necessarily mean it works exactly as advertised.
 
Also, all results reported here are the results of empirical testing, so there is always the possibility of mistakes in the formulas and values I've derived. If you have reasonable suspicion that I've made a mistake somewhere, let me know and I will fix it once I get a chance to confirm.

 

Note 1: All testing was done on PC.

Note 2: For all [Mistake] and [Bug] tags: If the game version listed in the tag is older than the current version, that does not necessarily mean the mistake/bug does not exist in the most current version; it simply means I have not done any testing to confirm that it still exists. If a tagged item is fixed in a patch and confirmed by testing, I will make a note of it.

 
Attributes

Spoiler

Strength

• Increases attack_bonus by 0.5% for each point above 10 (warriors only).
• Increases guard_damage_bonus by 1% for each point above 10.

Dexterity

• Increases attack_bonus by 0.5% for each point above 10 (rogues only).
• Increases critical_damage_bonus by 1% for each point above 10.

Magic

• Increases attack_bonus by 0.5% for each point above 10 (mages only).
• Increases barrier_damage_bonus by 1% for each point above 10.

Constitution

• Increases maximum health by 5.
• Increases melee_defense by 0.5% for each point above 10.

Cunning

• Increases critical chance by 0.5% for each point above 10.
• Increases ranged_defense by 0.5% for each point above 10.

Willpower

• Increases attack_bonus by 0.5% for each point above 10.
• Increases magic_defense by 0.5% for each point above 10.

Damage Calculation

Spoiler

This info is derived from some extracted lua scripts, and is consistent with what I saw in my testing.

 

Note: When using the formulae below, first convert all percents to decimals (e.g. 150% -> 1.5).

 

The formula for damage dealt by party members against enemy NPCs is:

final_damage = (base_damage * rand(0.95 to 1.05) - armor * (1 - armor_penetration))
    * (ability_multiplier)
    * (1 + critical_damage_bonus + flanking_bonus)
    * (1 + attack_bonus + damage_multiplier + type_bonus)
    * (1 - magic_resistance)

The formula for damage dealt by enemy NPCs against party members is:

final_damage = (base_damage * rand(0.95 to 1.05) - armor * armor_multiplier * (1 - armor_penetration))
    * (ability_multiplier + attack_bonus + flanking_bonus + level_bonus + difficulty_bonus + rank_bonus)
    * (1 - magic_resistance)
    * (1 - min(defense + front_defense, 0.8))

• base_damage: Starting point for all damage calculations. For most attacks made by party members, this is equal to the value listed under the Attributes tab of the character menu as "Main-hand damage" and "Off-hand damage" (for more info on how this interacts with dual-wielding see the General Mechanics section below). Some attacks use their own specific base_damage values, most notably damage from runes and potions/grenades.
  • Friendly Fire: For friendly fire physical damage (when both source and victim are party members), base_damage is multiplied by 2.5.
• armor: Armor value of the victim. Armor reduction only applies to physical damage. This value can be found under the Attributes tab of the character menu. For party members, if damage is taken from the front, the value listed as "Armor: Front" used, otherwise the value listed as "Armor" is used instead. Enemy NPCs do not have a separate "Armor: Front" value; they have one armor value that is used for incoming attacks from all directions (this armor value can be viewed in Tactical Mode by selecting/hovering the cursor over the enemy).
• armor_penetration: Armor penetration value of the source. Cannot be less than 0 or greater than 1 (default value is 0). For party members, this value can be found under the Attributes tab of the character menu.
• armor_multiplier: Used to normalize the armor values of party members to variations in enemy damage output across different difficulties. See the Difficulty Levels section for more information.
• ability_multiplier: Used mainly by abilities, but also by combo detonators. You can find specific values for abilities in their in-game descriptions. For the purposes of this guide, I will use the terms "ability_multiplier" and "weapon damage" interchangeably. For autoattacks this value is 1.
• critical_damage_bonus and flanking_bonus: Multipliers applied on critical hits and when flanking, respectively. For party members, you can find these values under the Attributes tab of the character menu. For more information on how critical hits and flanking work, see the General Mechanics section.
• attack_bonus: Represented in-game as "Attack". For party members, this value can be found under the Attributes tab of the character menu.
• damage_multiplier: A catch-all statistic used by various abilities. Default value is 0. In general when an ability description mentions a damage bonus without listing it as a percentage of "weapon damage" this is the value that is affected (this is not a hard and fast rule however - see the Abilities sections for info on specific cases).
• type_bonus: The damage bonus from creature research. Default value is 0.
• level_bonus: Default value is 0. If the enemy NPC attacker is greater than 3 levels above the defender, this value is changed to 25% times the level difference.
• difficulty_bonus: Bonus applied based on difficulty level. See the Difficulty Levels section for more information.
• rank_bonus: Bonus applied based on enemy NPC rank. Possible values are: 0%, 12.5%, and 25%.
• magic_resistance: Either the fire, cold, electricity, or spirit resistance stat of the victim, depending on the type of incoming damage. If the incoming damage is not of one of the four aforementioned types, this value defaults to 0. For party members, capped at a maximum value of 80%.
• defense: Either the melee defense (vs. melee physical damage), ranged defense (vs. ranged physical damage), or magic defense (vs. magic damage) stat of the victim, depending on the type of incoming damage. Capped at a maximum value of 80%.
• front_defense: Additional defense only applied against non-flanking attacks (see the General Mechanics section for information on what constitutes flanking attacks). Unlike the general defense stat, the same front_defense value is used for all types of attacks (melee, ranged, and magic). Capped at a maximum value of 80%.

A note on convention used by this guide:

• All values for stat bonuses presented by this guide are chosen to allow for additive stacking when combining multiple bonuses, unless it is specifically stated otherwise.
  • e.g. a +100% bonus to damage_multiplier means that when applied to a base damage_multiplier value of 50%, the final value of damage_multiplier is 150%.

General Mechanics

Spoiler

Barrier

• Can only be applied by certain Mage abilities and passives.
• The initial strength of barriers applied by party members is based on the caster's max_barrier value:

• max_barrier = (base_damage + 10) * 48 - 300

  • This value is defined as 100% barrier strength for all abilities that apply barrier. So an ability that applies 100% barrier will summon a barrier with initial strength equal to the caster's max_barrier value, while an ability that applies 50% barrier will summon a barrier with initial strength equal to half the caster's max_barrier value.
  • This value can be modified by the Strength of Spirits passive.
• The maximum barrier value for enemy NPCs is a fixed value based on the identity and level of the NPC and the game difficulty level.
• Incoming damage affects barrier first, then guard, and lastly health.
• Damage dealt to barrier ignores armor.
• Damage dealt to barrier is modified by barrier_damage_bonus. This bonus is calculated after all other damage calculations (see the Damage Calculation section):

• final_barrier_damage = final_damage * (1 + barrier_damage_bonus)

• Barrier strength is reduced when absorbing damage. One point of absorbed damage reduces barrier strength by one point. When barrier strength reaches 0, the character loses active barrier.
• For information on how damage that "overflows" barrier is handled, see this post:
  • http://forum.bioware...ics/?p=18795459
• All barriers on party members slowly decay over time, losing strength at a constant rate per unit time.
  • The default barrier decay rate is 8.33% barrier per second.
  • This rate can be modified by the Knight-Protector passive.
• Barriers on enemy NPCs do not decay, and can only be reduced by damage or abilities that can dispel barrier.

Guard

• Can be applied by certain Warrior abilities and the effects of certain Masterwork materials.
• For party members, maximum guard value depends on maximum health. The formula is:

• max_guard = floor(max_health * max_guard_factor)

  • max_guard_factor: Default value for all classes is 0.25. Certain Warrior abilities increase this number.
• The maximum guard value for enemy NPCs is a fixed value based on the identity and level of the NPC and the game difficulty level.
• Incoming damage affects barrier first, then guard, and lastly health.
• Damage dealt to guard is modified by guard_damage_bonus. This bonus is calculated after all other damage calculations (see Damage Calculation section):

• final_guard_damage = final_damage * (1 + guard_damage_bonus)

• Guard is reduced when absorbing damage. One point of absorbed damage reduces guard by one point. When guard reaches 0, the character loses active guard.
• For information on how damage that "overflows" guard is handled, see this post:
  • http://forum.bioware...ics/?p=18795459
• Guard provides some resistance to knockback and stagger.

Critical Hits

• Base critical hit bonus = 40%.
• For AoE attacks and attacks that proc multiple hits, each individual hit has an independent chance to trigger a critical hit.
• Extra damage from runes can trigger critical hits, but they will not proc effects that trigger on critical hits.
• Damage over time ticks cannot trigger critical hits.

Flanking

• Base flanking bonus = 25%.
• To qualify as a flanking attack, the attacker must be positioned in an 180-degree arc behind the defender. In other words, if the defender is facing 12 o'clock, the attacker must be located between 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock.
• All attacks except damage over time ticks can benefit from flanking.
• If the attacker is more than 3 meters from the defender, the attacker suffers a flat 25% penalty to flanking bonus (whether the attack is melee or ranged is irrelevant for this check).

Damage over Time (DoT)

• All damage over time ticks at a rate of once every 2 seconds. This holds true even if in-game descriptions imply otherwise.
• General formula for calculating number of ticks of a DoT effect:

• tick_count = floor(duration / 2.0) + 1

• Damage from DoT ticks cannot be critical hits.
• If a DoT is applied while a previous instance is still active on the same target, the new DoT will replace the old one. While the duration of the new DoT effect will be refreshed accurately, the timing of the ticks will still follow the same period. For example, suppose that a DoT effect ticks at t=0s and a new instance of it is applied at t=0.5s. Instead of a new damage tick triggering at t=0.5s, the first tick of the new instance will not trigger until t=2s. The practical effect of this is that a DoT instance that refreshes an existing one may not receive as many ticks as compared to a freshly applied instance.
• [Bug - Patch 11] All ticks of any DoT effect will deal only 1 damage if both of the conditions below are true:
  • The damage source is in a flanking position relative to the victim.
  • The tick would have had a flanking_bonus of greater than 0% (after the >3-meter penalty is deducted, if applicable).

Runes

• Rune damage is applied only on autoattacks and Spirit Blade attacks.
• Rune damage is applied separately instead of being added to the damage of attacks on which it procs.
• Elemental runes apply damage that is typed according to the element of the rune.
• Racial runes (runes that apply damage vs. certain creature types) apply physical damage that ignores armor.
• Rune damage has a base_damage value equal to the stated damage value of the rune (in other words, a rune that grants +10 spirit damage will have a base_damage value of 10).
• Rune damage has an ability_multiplier value of 100%, except when triggered by Spirit Blade, in which case the value is 300%.
• Rune damage can critically hit, and does benefit from critical_damage_bonus and flanking_bonus.
• Rune damage does not trigger effects that proc on hit or effects that proc on critical hits.
  • One exception is that rune damage will trigger the extra damage from Lightning Cage.

Status Effects

• Types:
  • Bleeding: Recipient suffers a DoT effect, taking physical damage (ignores armor) over time. Stacks.
    • base_damage = 5.0 per level of the source.
    • ability_multiplier = 100%.
    • Does not benefit from attack_bonus, damage_multiplier, critical_damage_bonus, or flanking_bonus.
  • Burning​: Recipient suffers a DoT effect, taking fire damage over time. Does not stack.
  • Chilled: Recipient suffers reduced movement speed. Does not stack.
  • Shocked: Recipient suffers a -20% penalty to fire, cold, and electricity resistance. Does not stack.
  • Stunned: Recipient is unable to move or take any action. Does not stack.
  • Asleep: Recipient is unable to move or take any action.  Taking any damage ends the effect. Does not stack.
  • Frozen: Recipient is unable to move or take any action. Does not stack.
  • Paralyzed: Recipient is unable to move or take any action. Does not stack.
  • Fear/Panicked: Recipient runs in random directions and is unable to take any other action. Taking any damage ends the effect. Does not stack.
  • Sundered: Recipient suffers reduced armor. Stacks multiplicatively (i.e. 2x 20% Sundered stacks is effectively equal to 1x 36% Sundered stack).
  • Weakened: Recipient suffers reduced damage output.
  • Poisoned: Recipient suffers a DoT effect, taking poison damage over time. Poison damage ignores armor. Does not stack.
• For stacking status effects, each instance of a status effect on a single recipient maintains its own timer.
• For non-stacking status effects, each new instance of specific status effect applied to a single recipient replaces any existing instance on that recipient.

Stamina/Mana Regeneration

• All characters regenerate stamina and mana passively at a fixed rate. Passive regeneration is deactivated when sustaining abilities that drain mana or stamina.
  • Warriors: 4% of max stamina per second
  • Rogue: 4% of max stamina per second
  • Mage: 6% of max mana per second
• In addition to passive regeneration, Warriors and Rogues recover a fixed amount of stamina with every autoattack. If a single autoattack strikes more than one enemy, stamina recovery will proc once for each separate strike.
  • 1-H Warriors: 5 stamina per strike.
  • 2-H Warriors: 15 stamina per strike.
  • Double Dagger Rogues: 5 stamina per strike.
  • Bow Rogues: 6 stamina per strike.

Dual-Wielding (Double-Dagger Rogue): Stats and Damage Calculation

• Stat bonuses from both daggers are applied to the wielding character as a whole and used in damage calculations for every attack.
• When autoattacking, attacks will alternate between using main-hand and off-hand damage values (see Autoattacks section).
• In almost all other cases, including abilities and combos, only main-hand damage is used for calculating damage output (this is true even for abilities that result in multiple hits).
  • There are two exceptions: Flank Attack (uses off-hand damage for both strikes) and Twin Fangs (uses main-hand damage for one strike and off-hand damage for the other).

Focus

• Focus is required to activate special Focus Abilities.
• Focus is gained by dealing damage to enemies.
• Each party member maintains his or her own focus pool. However, focus gain is shared between all active party members.
• Each tier (up to 3) of the party's focus pool filled increases the duration and magnitude of Focus Abilities.
• See the following post for more information on how focus gain is calculated: https://forum.biowar...ics/?p=20388687

Autoattacks

Spoiler

For all class + weapon combinations with the exception of bow-wielding rogues, autoattacks are carried out in a repeating sequence of attacks. Not all attacks in the sequence are necessarily identical; attacks may have different wind-up times or may hit enemies in different arcs.
 
If a character continuously autoattacks, they will run through their attack sequence in order and then repeat from the beginning when the sequence ends. If the character is interrupted for any reason (including being staggered, knocked down, stunned, or voluntarily taking another action such as casting an ability or moving to another position), the autoattack sequence will also be interrupted and the next autoattack will start from the first attack in the sequence.
 
Below are descriptions and schematics for the different autoattack sequences in the game. Note that for now, I only describe AoE and attack arcs in general terms, mostly because it is extremely difficult to gather precise data on those topics through empirical testing (enemy AI in the game don't stand perfectly still for you to line up your attacks at just the right angle).

 

[Bug - Patch 4] Using the search ping instantly resets autoattack sequences and the player-controlled character's animation, allowing that character to immediately restart their autoattack sequence from the beginning. Due to the timing of animations, this can be exploited to increase the effective autoattack speed of a character, most notably that of 2H Warriors.
 
Note that for all autoattacks except Spirit Blade, ability_multiplier = 100%.
 
Warrior
 
1H Sword
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 0.58 s -> attack_2 -> 1.00 s -> attack_3 -> 0.83 s -> attack_4 -> 1.33 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a medium arc.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a medium arc.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a medium arc.
• attack_4: Attack hitting a medium arc.

Total duration: 3.74 seconds
No. of attacks: 4
Effective DPS: 107% weapon damage per second
 
1H Axe/Mace
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 0.58 s -> attack_2 -> 0.58 s -> attack_3 -> 0.83 s -> attack_4 -> 1.33 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a medium arc.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a medium arc.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a medium arc.
• attack_4: Attack hitting a medium arc.

Total duration: 3.32 seconds
No. of attacks: 4
Effective DPS: 120% weapon damage per second
 
2H Sword/Axe
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 0.87 s -> attack_2 -> 1.12 s -> attack_3 -> 1.12 s -> attack_4 -> 1.38 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a large arc.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a large arc.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a large arc.
• attack_4: Attack hitting a 360-degree arc around the attacker.

Total duration: 4.49 seconds
No. of attacks: 4
Effective DPS: 89% weapon damage per second

2H Maul
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 1.12 s -> attack_2 -> 1.28 s -> attack_3 -> 1.84 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a small AoE at the point of impact.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a small AoE at the point of impact.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a small AoE at the point of impact.

Total duration: 4.24 seconds
No. of attacks: 3
Effective DPS: 71% weapon damage per second

Rogue

Daggers
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 0.42 s -> attack_2 -> 0.60 s -> attack_3 -> 0.37 s -> attack_4 -> 0.60 s -> attack_5 -> 0.52 s -> attack_6 + attack_7 -> 0.57 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses off-hand damage.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_4: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses off-hand damage.
• attack_5: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_6: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_7: Attack hitting a small arc. Uses off-hand damage.

Total duration: 3.08 seconds
No. of attacks: 7
Effective DPS: 130% main-hand damage + 97% off-hand damage per second

Dual Blade Daggers
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 + attack_2 -> 0.78 s -> attack_3 + attack_4 -> 0.67 s -> attack_5 + attack_6 -> 0.93 s -> attack_7 + attack_8 -> 1.15 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a medium arc. Uses off-hand damage.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a medium arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a medium arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_4: Attack hitting a medium arc. Uses off-hand damage.
• attack_5: Attack hitting a medium arc. Uses off-hand damage.
• attack_6: Attack hitting a medium arc. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_7: Attack hitting a 360-degree arc around the attacker. Uses main-hand damage.
• attack_8: Attack hitting a 360-degree arc around the attacker. Uses off-hand damage.

Total duration: 3.53 seconds
No. of attacks: 8
Effective DPS: 113% main-hand damage + 113% off-hand damage per second

Note: This autoattack sequence is used even when one dual-blade and one regular dagger is equipped.

Bow
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 1.00 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Standard projectile.

Total duration: 1.00 seconds
No. of attacks: 1
Effective DPS: 100% weapon damage per second.

Mage

Staff
Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 0.50 s -> attack_2 -> 0.50 s -> attack_3 -> 0.67 s -> attack_4 -> 1.00 s -> attack_5 -> 0.62 s -> attack_6 + attack_7 + attack_8 -> 1.35 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Standard projectile.
• attack_2: Standard projectile.
• attack_3: Standard projectile.
• attack_4: Standard projectile.
• attack_5: Standard projectile.
• attack_6, attack_7, attack_8: Arcing projectiles. Applies either Burning (3 ticks over 4 seconds, 100% weapon damage per tick), Chilled (4 seconds), or Shocked (3 seconds) depending on staff element type.

Total duration: 4.64 seconds
No. of attacks: 8
Effective DPS (Fire): 237% weapon damage per second
Effective DPS (Cold, Electricity): 172% weapon damage per second

 

Spirit Blade

Attack Sequence:

attack_1 -> 0.91 s -> attack_2 -> 0.91 s -> attack_3 -> 1.17 s -> [repeat]

• attack_1: Attack hitting a 180-degree arc in front of the attacker for 300% weapon damage.
• attack_2: Attack hitting a 180-degree arc in front of the attacker for 300% weapon damage.
• attack_3: Attack hitting a 180-degree arc in front of the attacker for 300% weapon damage.

Total duration: 2.99 seconds
No. of attacks: 3
Effective DPS: 301% weapon damage per second

 

Difficulty Levels

Spoiler

The following values are known to change across different difficulty levels:

 

Enemy Damage

• Changes in damage are applied via changes to the global difficulty_bonus stat (see the Damage Calculation section). The possible values are:
  • Casual: -35%
  • Normal: 0%
  • Hard: 40%
  • Nightmare: 100%
• To adjust for the variations in enemy damage across difficulty levels, armor for party members is scaled accordingly using the global armor_multiplier stat (see the Damage Calculation section). Note that this scaling is not reflected in the in-game UI. The possible values for armor_multiplier are:
  • Casual: 65%
  • Normal: 100%
  • Hard: 140%
  • Nightmare: 200%

Enemy Health

• See the following post for information: https://forum.biowar...ics/?p=20384570

 

Combos

Spoiler

General Principles

• Detonating a combo will remove the status effect (Stun, Asleep, Frozen, Paralyzed) that was used to set up the combo.
• Extra damage from detonating a combo only uses the detonating character's stats for damage calculation.
• The game treats the detonating character as the source of the extra damage from detonations.
• Extra damage from detonations is treated like any other attack: it is eligible for critical hits, flanking bonuses, and can trigger effects that proc on hit.

Basic Impact Combo
Triggers: Stunned + Impact Detonator
 
Deals moderate physical damage to the victim.

• Shield Bash, Lunge and Slash: 250% weapon damage.
• Mighty Blow: 150% weapon damage.
• Whirlwind: 115% weapon damage.

Basic Precision Combo
Triggers: Asleep + Precision Detonator

Deals moderate damage to the victim.

• Twin Fangs, Death Blow, Shadow Strike (dagger): 415% weapon damage as physical damage.
• Hidden Blades: 530% weapon damage as spirit damage.
• Long Shot, Shadow Strike (bow): 300% weapon damage as physical damage.

Basic Eldritch Combo
Triggers: Frozen or Paralyzed + Eldritch Detonator

Deals moderate damage to the victim.

• Dispel, Mind Blast: 500% weapon damage as spirit damage.
• Energy Barrage: 500% weapon damage as elemental damage (based on staff type).
• Immolate: 500% weapon damage as fire damage.
• Spell Purge: [Bug - Patch 11] Extra damage is not applied when detonating basic eldritch combos.

Shatter
Triggers: Frozen + Impact or Precision Detonator
 
Deals massive cold damage to and knocks down the victim.

• Shield Bash, Lunging Strike: 325% weapon damage.
• Mighty Blow: 225% weapon damage.
• Whirlwind: 190% weapon damage.
• Twin Fangs, Death Blow, Hidden Blades, Shadow Strike (dagger): 550% weapon damage.
• Long Shot, Shadow Strike (bow): 400% weapon damage.
• Stonefist: 650% weapon damage.

Discharge
Triggers: Paralyzed + Impact or Precision Detonator
 
Deals moderate electricity damage and applies Shocked (8 seconds) in a medium AoE around the victim.

• Shield Bash, Lunging Strike, Mighty Blow, Whirlwind, Twin Fangs, Death Blow, Hidden Blades, Long Shot, Shadow Strike: 300% weapon damage.
• Stonefist: 500% weapon damage.

Rupture (Precision/Impact)
Triggers: Stunned + Precision Detonator OR Asleep + Impact Detonator
 
Deals massive physical damage over time (4 ticks over 6 seconds) that ignores armor to the victim.

• Shield Bash, Lunging Strike: 125% weapon damage per tick (500% total).
• Mighty Blow, Whirlwind: 70% weapon damage per tick (280% total).
• Twin Fangs, Death Blow, Hidden Blades, Shadow Strike (dagger): 175% weapon damage per tick (700% total).
• Long Shot, Shadow Strike (bow): 150% weapon damage per tick (600% total)

Rupture (Eldritch)
Triggers: Stunned + Eldritch Detonator

Deals massive spirit damage and applies Weakness (10 seconds) to the victim.

• Dispel, Mind Blast, Energy Barrage, Immolate, Spell Purge: 1200% weapon damage.

Rupture (Stonefist)
Triggers: Stunned + Stonefist

Deals moderate spirit damage to the victim.

• Stonefist: 500% weapon damage.

 

Nightmare
Triggers: Asleep + Eldritch Detonator

Deals massive spirit damage and applies Fear (10 seconds) to the victim.

• Dispel, Mind Blast, Energy Barrage, Immolate, Spell Purge: 800% weapon damage.

Sleep
Triggers: Shocked + Weakness (Weakness must be applied on top of Shocked)

Deals 100 spirit damage (unaffected by ability_multiplier, attack_bonus, damage_multiplier, or type_bonus) and applies Sleep (8 seconds) to the victim. Removes Weakness from the victimbut not Shocked.

 

Potions

Spoiler

Mighty Offense Tonic

• Bonus damage is added as a flat value to base_damage. As a result the damage of all attacks that use base_damage (autoattacks, ability damage, etc.) is increased.

Tears of the Dead

• Cannot be used by Mages.
• Only applies poison on autoattacks.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] Poison damage is not consistent with the stated damage values. In all cases the actual damage seems to be somewhat less than the stated damage (holds true with the unupgraded version and with the Damage I/II upgrades).
• Poison damage ignores armor.
• Unlike other poison effects, the damage from Tears of the Dead is not typical of DoT effects.
  • Ticks every second instead of every 2 seconds.
  • Each tick can independently critically hit (still does not benefit from flanking_bonus however).
• Poison damage does not stack with itself.
• Poison effect receives the bonus from Fighting Dirty and will trigger Explosive Toxin.

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Warrior Abilities

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Weapon and Shield
 
Shield Wall

• Completely negates all damage from the front as well as all direction-less damage (e.g. traps).
• Builds guard in discrete increments per hit based on the amount of damage blocked:
  • 10% of maximum guard [cost: 9 stamina]
  • 20% of maximum guard [cost: 19 stamina]
• [Bug - Patch 5] If the caster drops below 10 stamina with Shield Wall active, Shield Wall can no longer be deactivated normally (by using the ability again). It can still be deactivated by casting another ability or making an autoattack.

Chevalier's Step (Upgrade)

• Does not confer armor bonus to the caster.
• Armor bonus is:
  • front_armor_bonus = caster_back_armor * 0.30
  • ​back_armor_bonus = caster_back_armor * 0.30
    • ​caster_back_armor: the current back armor value of the caster, including any active temporary bonuses.
• The armor bonus is calculated when an ally first enters the AoE of the effect and will not be updated until that ally leaves the AoE or Shield Wall is deactivated, even if the value of caster_back_armor changes in the meantime.
• [Bug - Patch 5] Allies will not receive the armor bonus if they are inside the AoE when Shield Wall is activated; they must leave the AoE, then re-enter it for the bonus to be applied (however sometimes even this does not work).

Bear Mauls the Wolves

• [Bug? - Patch 5] Active even when equipping 2H weapons.

Payback Strike

• Hits all enemies in a roughly 180-degree arc in front of the caster.
• If not recently taken damage: deals 200% weapon damage to all targets.
• If recently taken damage: deals 300% weapon damage to all targets and knocks them back.

Sweet Revenge (Upgrade)

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] Changes the damage output of Payback Strike to the following:
  • If not recently taken damage: ability_multiplier = 200%.
  • If recently taken damage: ability_multiplier = 200%; flat +100% to damage_multiplier.

Turn the Bolt

• Grants a flat +50% bonus to ranged_defense against non-flanking attacks.
• [Bug? - Patch 5] Active even when equipping 2H weapons.

Warrior's Resolve

• Stamina restored = (damage_taken / max_health) * max_stamina
  • This formula holds true even when damage is dealt to guard and barrier. Since damage dealt to barrier ignores armor and is usually much higher than damage to guard or health, in practice this means that large amounts of stamina can be restored with each hit if the defender has active barrier.
• [Bug? - Patch 5] Active even when equipping 2H weapons.

Lunge and Slash

• Hits twice for 175% weapon damage per strike.

Great Lunge (Upgrade)

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] There is only one distance threshold (5 meters).
• When striking from at least 5 meters: Lunge and Slash incurs no cooldown and deals 300% weapon damage per strike.

Turn the Blade

• Grants a flat +20% bonus to front_defense.
• [Bug? - Patch 5] Active even when equipping 2H weapons.

Two-Handed Weapon
 
Block and Slash

• Only blocks melee attacks from the front.
• The resulting counterattack after blocking an attack strikes all enemies in melee range in a wide arc centered on the enemy whose attack was blocked.
• Costs 10 stamina to activate and 3.9% of max stamina per second to sustain.
• When an attack is blocked, the caster loses up to 20 stamina. If the caster has less than 20 stamina, the attack will still be blocked and the resulting counterattack made, and the caster's stamina will be reduced to 0.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] In-game description fails to mention the stamina penalty when an attack is successfully blocked, and incorrectly lists the stamina cost to sustain as 5 stamina per second.

Flawless Defense (Upgrade)

• Increases Block and Slash's ability_multiplier value to 250%.

Mighty Blow

• Deals damage to and knocks down all targets in an AoE cone in front of the caster.
• If target is knocked down: flat +100% to damage_multiplier.

Easy Target (Upgrade)

• If target is knocked down: an additional flat +50% to Mighty Blow's damage_multiplier value for a total of +150%.

Shield Breaker

• Each critical hit applies a 20% Sundered effect (12 seconds).
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] In-game description incorrectly lists duration of Sunder as 6 seconds.
• [Bug? - Patch 5] Active even when equipping 1H weapons.

Earthshaking Strike

• Hits all enemies in a small AoE directly in front of the caster once, then after a 1.5-second delay hits all enemies in a straight line (around the created fissure) once.
• Both hits deal physical damage and use an ability_multiplier value of 150%.

Shattered Ground (Upgrade)

• After Earthshaking Strike's second hit, the fissure is set ablaze for 10 seconds, during which it applies Burning (14 seconds) to all enemies that approach it.
• The Burning effect deals 100% weapon damage per tick.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] In-game description incorrectly lists the ability_multiplier value of Burning as 20%.

Battlemaster
 
Coup de Grace

• Damage bonus is a flat +30% to damage_multiplier.

Horn of Valor

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] Grants a 50% armor bonus, not 15%. [Fixed - Patch 5] Now correctly grants a 15% armor bonus.
• [Bug - Patch 4] Armor bonus is not applied to front armor. [Fixed - Patch 5]
• Armor bonus is:
  • front_armor_bonus = back_armor * 0.17
  • back_armor_bonus = back_armor * 0.15
    • back_armor: the current back armor value of the affected character before the Horn of Valor bonus is applied, including any active temporary bonuses.
• Armor bonus stacks with other instances of Horn of Valor.
• Damage bonus is a flat +15% to damage_multiplier.

That's the Spirit (Upgrade)

• Damage bonus granted by Horn of Valor is increased to a total of +50% to damage_multiplier.
• [Mistake/Bug - New in Patch 5] In-game description incorrectly lists increase in damage bonus as 20% instead of 35%.
• [New in Patch 5] Armor bonus granted by Horn of Valor is increased to:
  • front_armor_bonus = back_armor * 0.37
  • back_armor_bonus = back_armor * 0.32
• [Mistake/Bug - New in Patch 5] In-game description does not mention the increase to Horn of Valor's armor bonus.

Vanguard

 

Call to Arms (Upgrade)

• Grants armor bonus to the caster:
  • front_armor_bonus = back_armor * 2.0
  • back_armor_bonus = back_armor * 1.0
    • back_armor: the current back armor value of the caster before the Call to Arms bonus is applied, including any active temporary bonuses.
• [Bug - Patch 5] Can be exploited to gain large bonuses to armor for a short time. If no enemies are taunted by War Cry, it incurs no cooldown. However, the ability will always apply the armor bonus. Because the armor bonus stacks with itself, you can stack large armor bonuses by casting the ability in rapid succession with no enemies around.

Charging Bull

• While this ability is active, the caster continuously moves forward but is able to change the direction of his motion, albeit with a very slow turning rate.
• Drains 14.75 stamina per second while active.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] In-game description incorrectly lists the stamina cost to sustain as 5 stamina per second.

Trust the Steel

• [Bug - Patch 4] Armor bonus is not applied to front armor. [Fixed - Patch 5]
• Armor bonus is:
  • front_armor_bonus = back_armor * 0.24
  • back_armor_bonus = back_armor * 0.20
    • back_armor: the current back armor value of the caster before the Trust the Steel bonus is applied, including any active temporary bonuses.

Untouchable Defense

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] Grants a 20% bonus to armor instead of 25% bonus to maximum guard. [Fixed - Patch 5]
• [Bug - Patch 4] Armor bonus is not applied to front armor. [Fixed - Patch 5]
• Increases max_guard_factor by a flat value of 0.0625.

Templar
 
Blessed Blades

• Does not confer any damage bonus vs. non-demons.

Reaver

 

Ring of Pain

• Costs 10 stamina to activate and 5.1% of max stamina per second to sustain.
• Damage dealt by Ring of Pain counts as DoT. Therefore it ticks every 2 seconds, ticks cannot be critical hits and do not benefit from flanking. Each tick deals 15% weapon damage.
• Damage bonus from missing health is 1.25% per 1% missing health and is added as a flat value to damage_multiplier. This bonus only affects the DoT damage from Ring of Pain.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] In-game description incorrectly lists damage bonus from missing health as 1% per 1% missing health.
• [Bug - Patch 5] While active, reduces health cost of Dragon Rage to 4% max health per attack even without the Torrent of Pain upgrade.
• [Bug - Patch 5] While active, reduces stamina cost of Devour by 15 stamina even without the Torrent of Pain upgrade.
• [Bug - Patch 5] While active, reduces cooldown of Devour by 4 seconds even without the Torrent of Pain upgrade.

Torrent of Pain (Upgrade)

• [Bug - Patch 5] Currently has no effect. All listed improvements to Ring of Pain are already included in the un-upgraded version.

Blood Frenzy

• Damage bonus affects all attacks and is added to damage_multiplier.

Fervor

• Damage bonus affects all attacks and is added to damage_multiplier.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself.

Devour

• Hits twice for 100% weapon damage per strike.
• Damage bonus from missing health is added to damage_multiplier.
• The healing effect triggers on the second strike and applies whether the second strike successfully hits a target or not.

Dragon Rage

• Dragon Rage attacks can be chained together in a 3-attack sequence.
  • To continue the attack chain, either hold down the hotkey for Dragon Rage or cast it again within 3 seconds of the last Dragon Rage attack.
  • Switching targets between casts will not break the attack chain.
  • All attacks in the chain damage targets in a small arc in front of the caster.
  • Each attack in the chain drains health equal to 5% of the caster's maximum health. Health is drained even if the caster has active barrier or guard.
  • Attack chain:
  • cast_begin -> 0.25 s -> attack_1 -> 0.68 s -> attack_2 -> 0.73 s -> attack_3 -> 0.33 s -> [repeat]
    • attack_1: ability_multiplier = 150%. Flat +1% to damage_multiplier per 1% missing health.
    • attack_2: ability_multiplier = 150%. Flat +2% to damage_multiplier per 1% missing health.
    • attack_3: Hits twice. ability_multiplier = 150% per strike. Flat +3% to damage_multiplier per 1% missing health.
• While active, Ring of Pain grants a flat +50% to Dragon Rage's damage_multiplier value (all 3 attacks).
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] In-game description incorrectly lists health cost per attack as 2%.

Ravage (Upgrade)

• Adds a flat +50% to Dragon Rage's damage_multiplier value (all 3 attacks). This bonus stacks additively with the bonus from Ring of Pain and Dragon Rage's bonus from missing health.

Rogue Abilities

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Double Daggers
 

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Bloodied Prey (Passive)

• Applies +10% to damage_multiplier to all hits having the caster as their source when the victim's remaining health percentage is lower than the caster's remaining health percentage.

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Deathblow

• First and second attack: hits the primary target and all enemies in melee range of the caster in a small arc centered on the primary target for 200% weapon damage (physical).
• If any hit from the first attack reduces its victim's health to below 50%: the caster launches the second attack.
• Hits from both attacks receive +3% to damage_multiplier per 1% missing health on the victim.
• Hits from the second attack apply a knockdown effect to the victim.
• [Bug - Patch 11] If any hit kills its victim: cooldown on Deathblow is reset for the caster, even without Thrill of Victory.
• [Bug - Patch 5] In Action Mode (third-person mode) only: the second strike, if performed, consumes an additional 50 stamina in addition to the ability's base 50 stamina cost. [Fixed - Patch 11]
• If a hit from the first attack kills an enemy, the stamina restoration from Dance of Death is triggered before the stamina cost of Deathblow is deducted.

Thrill of Victory

• Increases ability_multiplier of hits from both the first and second attacks to 300%.

Surprise Attack (Trespasser only)

• The second attack is now only triggered when any hit from the first attack strikes an enemy at above 50% health before damage is applied.
• Removes the +3% to damage_multiplier per 1% missing health on the victim bonus and replaces it with +3% to damage_multiplier per 1% remaining health on the victim.

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Flank Attack

• The caster rushes toward and overshoots the primary target in a straight line, hitting all enemies along the way. After overshooting the target, the caster rushes toward the primary target and hits it once.
• All hits: base_damage = off-hand damage and ability_multiplier = 200% (physical damage).
• Any enemy hit by the first attack will turn toward the direction of the initial attack (i.e. toward the caster's position when the ability was activated).
  • In the case of the primary target, this usually guarantees that the second attack against it is a flanking attack.
• Sometimes the caster does not rush back toward the primary target after the overshoot (usually happens when the caster travels over an elevation change with the first attack). The second hit against the primary target will still land even if this happens.

Skirmisher

• The second hit against the primary target applies Stealth (infinite duration) to the caster.

Bleeding Flanks (Trespasser only)

• All hits from Flank Attack apply Bleeding (10 seconds).

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Parry

• Blocks the first melee attack from any angle within 1 second of activation.
• When an attack is successfully blocked, the caster turns to face the attacker and launches a counterattack that hits all enemies in melee range in a 180-degree arc on the right-hand side of the caster.
• Counterattack hits for 100% weapon damage (physical).
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] When an attack is successfully blocked, also restores 35 stamina.

Effortless Riposte

• Increases the amount of stamina restored on a successful block to 45.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Increases ability_multiplier of the counterattack to 225%.

Patient Riposte (Trespasser only)

• Changes Riposte to a sustained ability with activation cost of 0 stamina and sustain cost of 6% maximum stamina per second.

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Spinning Blades

• The caster strikes all enemies in melee range in a large arc centered on the caster's facing direction up to 5x in quick succession.
• All hits use ability_multiplier = 75% (physical damage).
• Each hit removes all status effects on the victim. For each unique status effect removed, applies one stack of that effect to all enemies in a 6 meter radius around the caster.
• The following status effects cannot be spread:
  • Asleep
  • Stunned
  • Sundered (only when applied by Brittle Glyph)
• All status effects applied by Spinning Blades have a fixed duration:
  • Bleeding: 10 seconds
  • Burning: 10 seconds
  • Chilled: 6 seconds
  • Fear/Panicked: 10 seconds
  • Frozen: 2 seconds
  • Paralyzed: 2 seconds
  • Poisoned: 2 seconds
  • Shocked: 8 seconds
  • Sundered:: 12 seconds
  • Weakened: 16 seconds
• Burning applied by Spinning Blades uses ability_multiplier = 100%.
• Poisoned applied by Spinning Blades uses ability_multiplier = 60%.
• Sundered applied by Spinning Blades has a magnitude of 20%.

Neverending Spin

• If the first wave of 5 strikes successfully hits at least once, the caster launches two more waves of strikes after the initial wave.
  • 2nd wave: 4 strikes.
  • [Undocumented - Patch 11] 3rd wave: 2 strikes. Each strike applies a knockup effect to the victim.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Increases the ability_multiplier of all hits from Spinning Blades to 105%.

Flurry (Trespasser only)

• Hits from Spinning Blades no longer remove status effects from victims.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Reduces the maximum number of strikes per enemy from 5 to 1. Greatly increases the range of all strikes.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Increases the ability_multiplier of all hits from Spinning Blades to 105%.

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Twin Fangs

• Strikes the primary target and all other enemies in melee range in a small arc centered on the primary target twice.
• One hit uses main-hand damage and the other uses off-hand damage.
• All hits use ability_multiplier = 200% (physical damage) and receive +100% to flanking_bonus.

Ripping Fangs

• Adds an additional +50% to flanking_bonus to all hits from Twin Fangs (total = +150%).
• Each hit from Twin Fangs now applies one stack of 20% Sundered (8 seconds).
• [Bug - Patch 11]: Sundered is applied even when not flanking.

Unyielding Fangs (Trespasser only)

• Removes the bonus to flanking_bonus from all hits from Twin Fangs.
• Adds +100% to damage_multiplier to all hits from Twin Fangs when not flanking.

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Archery

 

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Explosive Shot

• Fires a projectile at the primary target. When the projectile hits an enemy it applies a small knockback effect, and after a short delay all enemies in a small AoE around the victim are hit twice.
  • Hit 1: Applies fire damage. Uses ability_multiplier = 200%.
  • Hit 2: Applies physical damage. Uses ability_multiplier = 200%.

Chain Reaction

• Applies +25% to damage_multiplier to both hits of Explosive Shot for every enemy greater than one within the explosion AoE, up to a maximum of four extra enemies (+100% bonus).

Shockwave (Trespasser only)

• Increases the magnitude of the knockback effect applied by the projectile fired at the primary target.

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First Blood (Passive)

• Applies +15% to damage_multiplier to all hits having caster as their source if the victim has at least 80% remaining health.

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Full Draw

• After a short wind-up time, the caster fires a single projectile at the primary target that hits for 800% weapon damage (physical).
• Each hit from this ability receives +100% to damage_multiplier if the victim has at least 90% remaining health.

Stunning Shot

• Each hit from Full Draw now applies Asleep (30 seconds).
  • [Mistake - Patch 11] In-game description incorrectly lists duration of the Asleep effect as 20 seconds.

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Leaping Shot

• Fires 1+12 projectiles in a tight cone in the direction of the target near the end of the leaping animation.
  • [Mistake - Patch 11] In-game description incorrectly lists number of projectiles as 12.
• First projectile: Each hit uses ability_multiplier = 175% (physical damage).
• Last 12 projectiles: each hit uses ability_multiplier = 100% (physical damage) and receives -50% to damage_multiplier.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Sometimes will fail to launch any projectiles if leaping across a change in elevation. No cooldown is triggered if this occurs.

Rolling Draw

• The next autoattack made after casting Leaping Shot receives +200% to damage_multiplier and applies a knockdown effect to the victim.
• The Rolling Draw buff is applied even if the caster fails to launch any projectiles.

Shot from the Shadows (Trespasser only)

• Applies Stealth to the caster at the end of the leaping animation.
• Stealth is applied even if the caster fails to launch any projectiles.

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Long Shot

• Fires a single projectile at the primary target that hits for 200% weapon damage (physical).
• Each hit from this ability receives +300% to damage_multiplier if the victim is at least 15 meters away from the caster.
  • No partial bonus is applied if the victim is less than 15 meters away.

Archer's Lance

• Upgrades the projectile from Long Shot so that it can travel through and hit multiple enemies.
• The projectile does not necessarily travel in a straight line; it can change its direction of travel by a small amount after hitting each enemy to target the next one.
  • With some luck, it is entirely possible for the projectile to make a 180-degree turn over the course of hitting multiple enemies if they are positioned correctly.
• [Bug - Patch 11] There is no damage bonus from striking multiple enemies.

Eagle Eye (Trespasser only)

• Each hit from Long Shot now receives an additional +300% to damage_multiplier if the victim is at least 25 meters away from the caster. The possible bonuses based on distance are now:
  • 0-15 meters: +0%.
  • 15-25 meters: +300%.
  • > 25 meters: +600%.

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Sabotage

 

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Caltrops

• The caster throws caltrops in a small AoE around him or herself that persist for 30 seconds. Enemies that move within the AoE are repeatedly hit for 10% weapon damage (physical).
• Each hit from Caltrops applies Slowed (4 seconds) to the victim.
• The interval between successive hits on a single enemy that moves within the AoE is somewhat random, but can be as short as 0.2 seconds.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Does not benefit from Set Them Up.

Tread Lightly

• Each hit from Caltrops now applies one stack of Bleeding (10 seconds) on the victim.

Barbed Spikes (Trespasser only)

• Each hit from Caltrops now applies Immobilized (3 seconds) on the victim.
  • An enemy affected by Immobilized cannot have it applied again until they exit and re-enter the AoE.
• The interval between successive hits on a single enemy that moves within the AoE is now 1 second.

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Cheap Shot (Passive)

• Each critical hit made by the caster applies one stack of 20% Sundered (12 seconds) to the victim.
  • [Mistake - Patch 11] In-game description incorrectly lists the duration of the Sundered effect as 6 seconds.

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Explosive Toxin (Passive)

• When an enemy with an active Poisoned effect applied by the caster dies, a cloud is summoned with the same characteristics as Toxic Cloud centered on the position of the dying enemy.

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Fighting Dirty (Passive)

• Increases the duration of Poisoned and Sundered effects with the caster as their source by 25%.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Has no effect on Sundered applied by Cheap Shot.

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Poisoned Weapons

• Every hit made by the caster while Poisoned Weapons is active applies Poisoned (9 seconds) to the victim.
  • Does not apply to hits from Caltrops.
• Each tick of the Poisoned effect uses ability_multiplier = 75% and receives -50% to damage_multiplier.
• If an enemy with an existing instance of Poisoned (from any source or ability) is hit by Poisoned Weapons, the existing instance will persist instead of being replaced.

Infected Wounds

• Applies +15% to damage_multiplier to all hits from autoattacks and ticks of Poisoned from Poisoned Weapons having the caster as their source while Poisoned Weapons is active.
  • This bonus is not applied to damage from any other ability.

Leeching Poison (Trespasser only)

• Each hit made by the caster while Poisoned Weapons is active heals the caster for 5% of maximum health.
  • Does not apply to hits from Caltrops.
• When triggered, the heal undergoes a short (<1 second) cooldown period, during which further hits made by the caster will not trigger the heal.

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Throwing Blades

• Throws up to 4 projectiles at random enemies located in front of the caster.
• Each projectile hits for 100% weapon damage (physical) and applies 20% Sundered (8 seconds) to the victim.

Precision Targeting

• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Increases the maximum number of projectiles thrown from 4 to 6.
• Hits from Throwing Blades now gain +50% to ability_multiplier for every previous projectile that targeted the same enemy. For a detailed description of how this is calculated, see below:
  • The caster maintains a counter N.
  • N is set to 0 when Throwing Blades is activated.
  • When a projectile from Throwing Blades strikes a target, the following occurs in order:
    • The target is hit for 100% + N * 50% weapon damage. (This may  not always occur; see bug note below.)
    • If the target is not the same as the one struck by the previous projectile or if this is the first projectile of the current activation, N is set to 0.
    • N is incremented by 1.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Projectiles that land on their target don't always result in damage. The rest of the steps involved in tracking the bonus to ability_multiplier still occur even if the damage does not.
• [Bug - Patch 5] Damage bonus is not applied. [Fixed - Patch 11]

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Toxic Cloud

• The caster creates a cloud with a medium AoE centered on him or herself that lasts for 12 seconds.
  • [Mistake - Patch 11] In-game description incorrectly lists the duration of the cloud as 8 seconds.
• When an enemy enters the cloud, a DoT effect is applied on it.
  • Ticks from the cloud DoT use ability_multiplier = 100% (poison damage) and receive -65% to damage_multiplier.
  • The DoT effect immediately ends when the victim leaves the cloud AoE or when the cloud dissipates.
• [Bug - Patch 4] The cloud poisons enemies even without the Contact Poison upgrade. [Fixed - Patch 11]

Contact Poison

• Each tick from the cloud DoT now applies Poisoned (2 seconds) to the victim.
  • Ticks from the Poisoned effect use ability_multiplier = 100% and receive -50% to damage_multiplier.
• [Bug - Patch 4] Currently has no effect. All listed improvements to Toxic Cloud are already included in the un-upgraded version. [Fixed - Patch 11]

Lost in the Mist (Trespasser only)

• Allies within the cloud AoE now receive one stack of Elusive (infinite duration) every second, up to a maximum of 3 stacks.
• Each Elusive stack completely negates damage from one hit and then is immediately removed.

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Subterfuge
 

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Evade

• In Action Mode (over-the-shoulder): Caster jumps directly away from the selected target. If no target is selected, the caster jumps in the current facing direction.
• In Tactical Mode (overhead): Caster jumps in the selected direction.

Hidden Step

• Leaves behind a doppelganger of the caster at the caster's initial location when Evade is cast. Enemies are hit for 300% weapon damage (physical) when they attack or move onto the doppelganger. The doppelganger disappears after a few seconds.
• If the caster is close enough to an enemy when Evade is cast, the doppelganger is immediately destroyed and the enemy takes damage.

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Knockout Powder

• Applies Asleep (13 seconds) to all enemies in an AoE cone in front of the caster.

Deep Sleep

• Increases the duration of Asleep applied by Knockout Powder to 23 seconds.
• Instead of ending immediately when the recipient takes damage, Asleep applied by Knockout Powder now ends 3 seconds after damage is taken.

Rude Awakening (Trespasser only)

• Asleep applied by Knockout Powder now strikes the recipient for 600% weapon damage (spirit) 5 seconds after it is applied.
• The Asleep effect actually ends 0.5 seconds after the damage from Rude Awakening is applied.
• [Mistake - Patch 11] The Asleep effect now lasts a maximum of 5.5 seconds, not 8 seconds as implied by the in-game description.

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Shadow Strike

• The caster rushes forward a short distance and strikes the primary target for 400% weapon damage (physical) and applies a knockup effect.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Hits from Shadow Strike, if applied between 1-5 seconds after entering Stealth, receive +50% to damage_multiplier. This bonus is in addition to the standard +50% to damage_multiplier received by all hits when exiting from Stealth.
  • Hits from Shadow Strike that are applied less than 1 second after entering Stealth do not receive this bonus, but will still receive the standard bonus from Stealth.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Will oftentimes fail to hit the primary target if the caster is too far away when the ability is activated. Activating the ability in Action Mode (over-the-shoulder) by holding down the assigned ability key minimizes the chance of this occurring.
• [Bug - Patch 4] The bonus damage from attacking from stealth or not taking damage recently is not being applied correctly and in a manner consistent with the description. [No longer applies - Patch 11]

Quick Blade

• Hits from Shadow Strike now receive +50% to damage_multiplier if applied more than 5 seconds after the most recent time the caster took damage or when exiting Stealth.
  • This bonus does not stack if both conditions are met at the same time.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Hits from Shadow Strike no longer receive the standard +50% bonus to damage_multiplier from exiting Stealth.
  • The bonus to hits made within 1-5 seconds of entering Stealth is retained.

Long Shadows (Trespasser only)

• Transforms Shadow Strike into a ranged ability so that it will now fire a projectile at the primary target.
• [Undocumented - Patch 11] Hits from Shadow Strike no longer receive the standard +50% bonus to damage_multiplier from exiting Stealth.
  • The bonus to hits made within 1-5 seconds of entering Stealth is retained.

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Stealth

• All hits from the caster applied within 1 second of exiting Stealth receive +50% to damage_multiplier.

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Artificer

 

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Elemental Mines

• The caster throws 3 fire mines, 3 ice mines, and 3 electricity mines out a medium distance, spread over a medium arc centered on the caster's facing direction.
• Each mine will detonate when they come into contact with an enemy (either when thrown or when an enemy walks over it).
  • Fire Mine: Hits all enemies in a very small AoE for 50% weapon_damage (fire) and applies Burning (8 seconds).
    • Ticks from the Burning effect use ability_multiplier = 50%.
  • Ice Mine: Hits all enemies in a small AoE for 50% weapon damage (cold) and applies Chilled (8 seconds).
  • Electricity Mine: Hits all enemies in a small AoE for 50% weapon damage (electricity) and applies Shocked (8 seconds).
• Mines automatically detonate after 30 seconds if not triggered.
• [Bug - Patch 11] If AI Tactics is enabled and the AI casts Elemental Mines, there is a chance that it will end up casting the One-Shot version even if the ability is not upgraded or the Throw Everything upgrade is selected.
  • If this occurs, the One-Shot version of the ability will replace the normal version in the ability bar and the caster is forced to use the One-Shot version until the ability is replaced in the ability bar or the active upgrade (if available) is toggled.

Throw Everything

• Elemental Mines now drains all stamina from the caster when activated.
• Number of extra mines summoned is based on stamina remaining after deducting Elemental Mines's stamina cost.
  • 0-4 stamina: no extra mines.
  • 5-9 stamina: 1 extra fire mine.
  • 10-14 stamina: 1 extra fire mine + 1 extra cold mine
  • 15-24 stamina: 2 extra fire mines + 2 extra cold mines + 2 extra electricity mines.
  • 25+ stamina: At this point Elemental Mines will summon extra mines in sets of 3. Each set consists of 1 fire mine, 1 cold mine, and 1 electricity mine. The formula for the number of extra sets (of 3 mines) is:
    • num_extra_sets = floor((stamina - 25) / 15) + 3

One-Shot (Trespasser only)

• Elemental Mines now throws one mine that cycles between Electricity -> Ice -> Fire with every cast. The new mines function as follows:
  • Fire Mine: Hits all enemies in a small AoE for 400% weapon damage (fire) and applies Fear (1.5 seconds) and Burning (8 seconds).
    • Ticks from the Burning effect use ability_multiplier = 100%.
  • Ice Mine: Hits all enemies in a small AoE for 400% weapon damage (cold) and applies Frozen (1.5 seconds) and Chilled (8 seconds).
  • Electricity Mine: Hits all enemies in a small AoE for 400% weapon damage (electricity) and applies Paralyzed (1.5 seconds) and Shocked (8 seconds).

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Opportunity Knocks (Passive)

• Cooldown reduction is only triggered when other party members (i.e. not the caster) land critical hits.

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Set Them Up (Passive)

• All hits from the following abilities that consider the caster as their source receive +30% to damage_multiplier.
  • Spike Trap
  • Elemental Mines
    • Ticks from the Fire Mine Burning effect do not receive this bonus.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Caltrops does not benefit from this ability.

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Spike Trap

• The caster throws a single trap on the ground at his or her position.
• The trap will detonate when it comes into contact with an enemy (either when thrown on when an enemy walks over it), hitting all enemies in a small AoE around the trap for 300% weapon damage (physical) and applying a knockup effect.

Shrapnel (Trespasser only)

• Each hit from Spike Trap now applies one stack of Bleeding (10 seconds).

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Tricks of the Trade (Passive)

• Increases the duration of all status effects applied by any party member by 10%.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Does not increase the duration of Sundered from Cheap Shot.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Does not increase the duration of any Bleeding effect.
• [Bug - Patch 11] Does not apply any damage bonus, either a general one or to status effects specifically.

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Assassin
 
Hidden Blades

• Does not count as DoT, so each strike is eligible for critical hits and flanking bonuses.
• [Bug? - Patch 5] Interacts strangely with Knife in the Shadows. Sometimes all strikes except the last are guaranteed critical hits when casting from stealth. Other times only the first strike is a guaranteed critical.

Knockout Bomb

• Affects all enemies in an AoE around the primary target.

Comatose (Upgrade)

• [Bug? - Patch 4] Does not seem to improve or change Knockout Bomb in any manner.

Mark of Death

• Deals 100% of stored damage when manually triggered. Deals 50% of stored damage when allowed to expire. This damage, although displayed as physical damage in-game, ignores armor, all resistances, and is not affected by attack_bonus, damage_multiplier, flanking_bonus, or critical_damage_bonus (see below).
• [Bug? - Patch 2] Although the damage from this ability can trigger critical hits, they do not receive any critical damage bonus. Effects that proc on critical hits will still be triggered, though.
• [Bug - Patch 2] Sometimes deals no damage when allowed to expire.

Tempest
 
Flask of Lightning/Quicksilver

• Duration is measured in game engine time (accounting for pauses), not the caster's subjective time. In other words, the ability lasts 5 seconds (7 seconds with Quicksilver) whether the player controls the caster, another party member, or switches between characters while the ability is active.
• When the player directly controls the caster:
  • Everything in the game world other than the caster is slowed.
  • Timers affected (slowed):
    • Buffs and debuffs on all non-caster characters.
  • Timers unaffected:
    • Buffs and debuffs on caster.
    • Cooldowns on all party members.
    • Stamina/mana regeneration on all party members.
    • Barrier decay on all party members.
• When the player does not directly control the caster:
  • The caster's actions (including autoattacks and casting times) are sped up by a factor of approximately 7.5-8x (Quicksilver does not change this value). Everything else in the game world is unaffected.
  • Timers affected (sped up):
    • Buffs on caster.
  • Timers unaffected:
    • Debuffs on caster.
    • Buffs and debuffs on all non-caster characters.
    • Cooldowns on all party members.
    • Stamina/mana regeneration on all party members.
    • Barrier decay on all party members.

Mage Abilities

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Spirit
 
Barrier

• Applies barrier on all party members and allies in the AoE at 100% strength.

Elegant Defense (Upgrade)

• [Bug? - Patch 4] Cooldown reduction only applied when any barrier ends (either through decay or taking damage) on self. The source of the barrier does not matter.

Transmute Magic (Upgrade)

• When triggered, the following effects are applied:
  • Applies barrier on the caster at 50% strength.
  • Applies a flat +25% to damage_multiplier on all attacks by the caster for 10 seconds.
• [Bug? - Patch 5] Does not trigger when dispelling status effects on party members/allies or when detonating combos. Only seems to trigger when dispelling enemy barriers.

Rejuvenating Barrier

• [Bug? - Patch 5] Only applies the stamina/mana regeneration bonus to self. The bonus is applied when any barrier is active on self, no matter who applied the barrier.

Strength of Spirits

• Increases self's max_barrier value by 50%.

Storm

 

Energy Barrage

• Fires 12 arcing projectiles that attempt to home in on the target.
• Projectiles may hit enemies other than the primary target if they get in the way.
• Some projectiles may fail to hit any target.
• Each projectile also applies Burning, Shocked, or Chilled depending on the staff's element type.

Energy Bombardment (Upgrade)

• Resistance penalty is a flat -2% per projectile to the appropriate magic_resistance stat of the target depending on the staff's element type.
• Resistance penalty lasts 4.5 seconds.

Exploding Bolt (Upgrade)

• Every extra enemy near the primary target adds a flat 200% to Lightning Bolt's ability_multiplier value.
• Applies a knockback effect on all enemies near the primary target (but not the primary target itself) if there are at least 2 enemies nearby.

Gathering Storm

• Grants a 0.5-second cooldown reduction every time the first attack (attack_1) in the staff attack sequence is made.
  • It is not necessary to run through the entire staff attack sequence to trigger the cooldown reduction. The cooldown reduction will still be triggered on every instance of attack_1 if, for example, the attack sequence is interrupted after attack_1 and a new sequence is started, beginning with attack_1 again.
• Only attacks targeted at enemies trigger the cooldown reduction.
• Spirit Blade attacks do not trigger the cooldown reduction.

Static Charge

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] Applies Paralyzed (2 seconds), instead of Shocked (6 seconds) as stated in the description.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] Deals no damage.

Static Cage

• Paralyzed enemies are dragged to the center of the cage.
• Also applies Shocked (7 seconds) when enemies are paralyzed.

Lightning Cage (Upgrade)

• Damage from Lightning Cage:
  • Triggers once for each separate hit on targets inside the cage.
  • Triggers on extra damage from runes, but not DoT ticks.
• For each instance of Lightning Cage's damage: the source of the hit that triggered the damage is defined as damage_source.
  • damage_source (who may not be the caster) is also treated as the source of Lightning Cage's damage.
  • Lightning Cage's damage uses damage_source's stats for damage calculations.
  • The ability_multiplier value of Lightning Cage's damage depends on the class and weapon type of damage_source:
    • 1H Warrior: 37.5%
    • 2H Warrior: 32.5%
    • Dagger Rogue: 37.5%
    • Bow Rogue: 37.5%
    • Staff Mage: 50%
    • Spirit Blade Mage: 50%
• Enemies damaged by Lightning Cage also have Shocked (8 seconds) applied to them.
• Increases the duration of Shocked applied when enemies are paralyzed from 7 to 8 seconds.

Inferno

 

Blistering Pain (Upgrade)

• [Bug - Patch 5] Does not increase the duration of Flashfire's Fear effect at all.

Immolate

• Burning effect ticks 5 times in 8 seconds.

Wildfire (Upgrade)

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] Increases the ability_multiplier value of Immolate's initial damage to 475%, not 400% as stated in the description.
• The ability_multiplier value of Immolate's burning damage is correctly increased to 150% per tick.

Clean Burn

• When an ability is cast, reduces the remaining cooldown times of all other abilities currently on cooldown by 1.5 seconds.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] In-game description incorrectly lists the cooldown reduction as 1 second.
• Casting Spirit Blade does trigger the cooldown reduction.
• There is a grace period of several seconds immediately after casting an ability during which the ability cannot benefit from Clean Burn's cooldown reduction.

Chaotic Focus

• If the caster has active barrier when casting an Inferno ability, provides a flat bonus to the damage_multiplier value of the damage from the ability based on barrier strength at the time of casting.
  • Flashfire: +1% to damage_multiplier per 1% active barrier strength.
  • Immolate: +2% to damage_multiplier per 1% active barrier strength. Bonus is only applied to initial damage, not damage from Burning.
  • Fire Mine: +2% to damage_multiplier per 1% active barrier strength. Bonus is calculated during casting, not when the mine is detonated. Bonus is only applied to initial damage, not damage from Burning.
  • Wall of Fire: [Bug - Patch 5] Does not trigger Chaotic Focus.
• Removes half the caster's remaining barrier strength when triggered.

Winter

 

Mana Surge

• Triggers even if barrier passively expires.

Winter Stillness

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] While active, also speeds up cooldown timers of all abilities by 50%. Assuming 100% up-time of Winter Stillness, this effectively reduces all cooldown times by 33.3%. [Fixed - Patch 5] No longer speeds up cooldown timers.
  • This cooldown reduction effectively stacks multiplicatively with the cooldown reduction from certain amulets. For example, a 15% cooldown amulet + Winter Stillness (assuming 100% up-time) will provide a total of 1 - (1 - 0.33) * (1 - 0.15) = 43.3% cooldown reduction.
• In addition to moving around, casting (or even just aiming) certain abilities will also break Winter Stillness. For a full list and more info see this post: http://forum.bioware...ics/?p=18545360
• Does not stack with Combat Clarity.

Ice Armor

• Provides a flat +50% to melee_defense, ranged_defense, and magic_defense when active.

Blizzard

• Caster may take any action, including moving, attacking, and casting other abilities without breaking the channel.
• The AoE of the Chilled effect is significantly larger than the AoE of the damage effect.
  • The AoE of the damage effect is outlined by the targeting circle.
  • The AoE of the Chilled effect is roughly the same as the extent of the snow particle effect created by the ability.
• Enemies that leave the Chilled effect AoE or are still inside when Blizzard is deactivated have the Chilled effect removed immediately, even if the Chilled effect was applied by another source.
• Cooldown period begins when Blizzard is activated, not when it is deactivated.

Ice Storm (Upgrade)

• Enemies must remain in the AoE of the Chilled effect for 12 seconds before they are Frozen.
• The Frozen effect lasts 4 seconds whether Blizzard is active or not.
• With this upgrade, Blizzard's cooldown is reduced to 0.

Knight Enchanter

 

Spirit Blade

• Hits all enemies in a 180-degree arc in front of the caster.
• Unlike with most other abilities, rune damage is applied when an enemy is hit by Spirit Blade. Rune damage from Spirit Blade attacks is given an ability_multiplier value of 300%.
• For more information on Spirit Blade's attack sequence, see the Autoattack section.

Combat Clarity

• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 5] While active, also speeds up cooldown timers of all abilities by 50%. Assuming 100% up-time of Combat Clarity, this effectively reduces all cooldown times by 33.3%.
  • This cooldown reduction effectively stacks multiplicatively with the cooldown reduction from certain amulets. For example, a 15% cooldown amulet + Combat Clarity (assuming 100% up-time) will provide a total of 1 - (1 - 0.33) * (1 - 0.15) = 43.3% cooldown reduction.
• Does not stack with Winter Stillness.

Knight-Protector

• Decreases barrier decay rate from 8.33% per second to 5.56% per second.
• [Bug? - Patch 4] Affects all barriers applied to any party member, no matter who applied the barrier.

Rift Mage

 

Encircling Veil

• Duration bonus is only granted to status effects applied by this character.

Necromancer

 

Despair (Upgrade)

• Upgrades Horror to apply a DoT effect on affected targets that deals 100% weapon damage per tick.
• [Mistake/Bug - Patch 4] In-game description incorrectly lists the ability_multiplier value of the DoT as 50% per tick.
• [Bug? - Patch 4] DoT only ticks a maximum of 3 times, even if the Fear effect lasts longer.

Blinding Terror

• Damage bonus is a flat +15% added to damage_multiplier.

Power of the Dead

• Damage bonus is only applied when the killing blow is made by self.
• Damage bonus is a flat +20% to damage_multiplier that stacks additively with itself.

Spirit Mark

• DoT only ticks 6 times even though the effect lasts 12 seconds.
• Charmed enemies:
  • Begin with 100% health and slowly lose health over time at a rate of 6.67% of maximum health per second.
  • Can take damage from regular attacks.
  • Will die when their health reaches 0.
  • Will immediately die if the controlling caster dies.
  • Can be dismissed and killed instantly by the caster, but only outside of combat.
• You may charm multiple enemies by casting Spirit Mark multiple times before any of the targets die and trigger the charm effect.
• [Bug - Patch 4] If the caster controls more than one charmed enemy, only the one that was charmed the earliest can be dismissed.
• [Bug - Patch 4] If the caster controls more than one charmed enemy, only the one that was charmed the earliest will die if/when the caster dies; the others remain alive and will continue to fight.

Lingering Mark (Upgrade)

• Reduces the rate at which charmed enemies lose health to 2.22% of maximum health per second.
• Charmed enemies do not receive any damage bonus despite what the description implies.

Simulacrum

• [Bug - Patch 5] Interacts strangely with Guardian Spirit. Sometimes when taking fatal damage, Simulacrum will activate, resulting in the death of the defender, even if Guardian Spirit could have prevented the death.

Walking Bomb

• Applies a DoT effect on affected targets, which ticks 6 times over 10 seconds. ability_multiplier for each tick is 200%.
• In addition to the DoT effect, Walking Bomb deals additional damage to affected targets at certain times:
  • On initial application: Deals 200% weapon damage to the target. This damage is not counted as DoT, so it can trigger critical hits and benefits from flanking. If upgraded with Virulent, this damage is not applied when the effect spreads to the second round of targets (in other words this damage is only applied to the first, primary target when Walking Bomb is initially cast).
  • On expiration/detonation: Deals 200% weapon damage to the target and all enemies around the target in a large AoE. This damage does not seem to be counted as DoT, since it benefits from flanking. However it is unclear if it can trigger trigger critical hits as well (I have never seen it do so despite many rounds of testing).
• Can be manually detonated to trigger the explosion (and spread the effect if the ability is upgraded with Virulent). If upgraded with Virulent, manual detonation is not possible after Walking Bomb has spread to the second round of targets).

Virulent (Upgrade)

• Each separate cast of Walking Bomb can only be spread once.
• An enemy affected by Walking Bomb cannot spread the effect to itself upon detonation.
• If the effect is spread to a second round of targets, when the effect expires on the second round the resulting explosions apply Weakness (15 seconds) to affected targets and all enemies around them in a large AoE.

 

Glossary

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• caster - For active abilities: the character that activated the ability. For passive abilities: the character that possesses the ability.
• hit - A single instance of a damage packet for non-DoT-derived damage.
• impact - See hit.
• primary target - For single-target active abilities: the character selected as the target when the ability was activated.
• recipient - For buffs/debuffs/status effects: the entity to which the effect was applied.
• source - For damage packets: the source of the damage (i.e. the entity dealing the damage). For buffs/debuffs/status effects: the source of the effect (i.e. the entity that applied the effect).
• stacking, additive - When two or more values x₁, x₂, ... x_n combine such that afterwards the total of their effects equals x₁ + x₂ + ... + x_n.
• stacking, multiplicative - When two or more values x₁, x₂, ... x_n combine such that afterwards the total of their effects equals x₁ * x₂ * ... * x_n.
• strike - see hit.
• tick - A single instance of a damage packet for DoT-derived damage.
• victim - The receiving entity of a damage packet (i.e. the entity being damaged).

 

Changelog

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7/25/16

• Updated notes on DoT effects.
• Minor formatting and content updates.

7/20/16

• Updated notes on Rogue Sabotage and Artificer trees for Patch 11 and Trespasser.
• Updated notes on the Bleeding status effect.

7/17/16

• Updated notes on Rogue Archery and Subterfuge trees for Patch 11 and Trespasser.
• Added notes on Bloodied Prey.
• Fixed an error in the Focus subsection.
• Moved ability sections to the second post because first post was running out of space.
• Other minor updates.

7/16/16 (2)

• Marked Trespasser-only upgrades as such.
• Updated notes on Leaping Shot for Patch 11.
• Added some clarifying language to the notes from the last update.
• Fixed some errors introduced in the last update.

7/16/16

• Updated notes on Rogue Double Dagger abilities for Patch 11.
• Updated notes on combos for Patch 11.
• Added a subsection on Focus in the General Mechanics section.
• Added the Difficulty Levels section.
• Added the Glossary section.
• Some formatting changes.
• Other minor updates.

3/23/15

• Small change to damage calculation formula for clarity.
• Updated notes on barrier and guard to link to post explaining how overflow damage is handled.
• Updated notes on Shield Wall.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

3/6/15

• Updated notes on Ring of Pain, Dragon Rage, Parry, Cheap Shot, and Throwing Blades.
• Added notes on Torrent of Pain, Effortless Riposte, and Contact Poison.
• Updated a lot of existing bug tags to reflect confirmation of persistence in Patch 5.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

3/5/15

• Started switching game version nomenclature to more closely match Bioware's own language (e.g. Patch 4 instead of v1.03). The new nomenclature will be used exclusively going forward.
• Fixed error in maximum guard calculation.
• Fixed error in stamina/mana regen notes.
• Modified damage formulas, added specific values for difficulty_bonus, and added discussion of armor_multiplier and front_defense stats.
• Updated notes on status effects.
• Updated notes on Block and Slash, Shield Breaker, Horn of Valor, That's the Spirit, Trust the Steel, Untouchable Defense, and Winter Stillness
• Added notes on Chevalier's Step, Bear Mauls the Wolves, Turn the Bolt, Turn the Blade, Earthshaking Strike, Shattered Ground, Call to Arms, and Charging Bull.
• Updated a lot of existing bug tags to reflect confirmation of persistence in Patch 5.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

2/13/15

• Updated notes on the magic_resistance stat.
• Added notes on damage from runes.
• Added notes on Explosive Toxin and Tears of the Dead.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

2/11/15

• Updated notes on the defense stat.
• Added notes on Mana Surge, Ice Armor, Blizzard, Ice Storm, Despair, Blinding Terror, Power of the Dead, Spirit Mark, and Lingering Mark.

2/09/15

• Updated notes on Gathering Storm, Lightning Cage, Winter Stillness, and Spirit Blade.
• Added notes on Blistering Pain, Clean Burn, Chaotic Focus, and Combat Clarity.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

2/07/15

• Updated notes on the barrier mechanic.
• Added notes on Knockout Bomb, Comatose, Transmute Magic, Rejuvenating Barrier, Strength of Spirits, Static Cage, Lightning Cage, and Encircling Veil.
• Updated notes on Barrier, Elegant Defense, and Knight-Protector.
• Updated notes on Shatter and Discharge combos to reflect results of most recent testing (ability_multiplier values were previously off by about 10%).
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

2/05/15 (3)

• Fixed error in enemy vs. player damage formula.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

2/05/15 (2)

• Updated notes on Winter Stillness and reworked for clarity.

2/05/15

• Added notes on status effects.
• Added notes on Leaping Shot, Rolling Draw, Energy Barrage, Energy Bombardment, Gathering Storm, and Static Charge.
• Added Potions section with notes on Mighty Offense Tonic.
• Fixed a serious error with the notes on Payback Strike and added notes on Sweet Revenge that should have been included earlier but were somehow left out.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

2/01/15 (2)

• Added note on autoattack-canceling exploit.
• Added in some notes on Dragon Rage that I forgot to include in the last update.

2/01/15

• Slightly modified damage formula presentation and added the damage formula for enemy NPC attackers.
• Added Spirit Blade attack sequence to Autoattack section.
• Added notes on Elemental Mines, Throw Everything, Ring of Pain, Blood Frenzy, Fervor, Devour, Dragon Rage, Ravage, Winter Stillness, and Spirit Blade.
• Updated notes on Walking Bomb to reflect results of most recent testing.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

1/30/15

• Added notes on barrier and guard.
• Expanded notes on stamina recovery to include info on passive regen.
• Added notes on Block and Slash, Flawless Defense, and Shield Breaker.
• All [Bug] and [Mistake] tags now list the most recent game version in which they were confirmed to exist.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

1/28/15

• Added Autoattack section.
• The guide now consistently uses the term "damage_multiplier" where appropriate in order to be consistent with the Damage Calculation section.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

1/26/15 (2)

• Added notes on Immolate, Wildfire, Warrior's Resolve, and Simulacrum.
• Fixed mistake in damage calculation formula and reworked parts of it for clarity.
• Other minor fixes and changes for clarity.

1/26/15

• Added notes on Sleep combo.
• Added notes on Stonefist's role as an impact detonator.
• Added notes on Exploding Bolt.

 

Credits

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Thank you to:

• Rynas for contributions to damage calculation formula.
• Exalus for reminding me about Shock+Weakness combo.
• Disco Overlord for notes on Warrior's Resolve.
• WJC3688 for notes on Block and Slash and heads up about autoattack-canceling exploit.
• rayzorium for pointing out errors in the guide on Sunder stacking.
• gimmethegepgun for notes on the timing of Dance of Death.
• PapaCharlie9 for his data on health scaling by difficulty level.

[Rynas]

See here for more detail on damage calculations: http://forum.bioware...ations-updated/

[Exalus]

Rupture (Eldritch)
Triggers: Stun + Eldritch Detonator

Deals massive spirit damage to the primary target and applies Weakened (10 seconds).

• Dispel, Mind Blast, Energy Barrage, Immolate, Spell Purge: 1200% weapon damage.

 

• I guess this is why templars are so amazing at clearing stunn-able mobs. How did you get these weapon damage modifier? was it solely through testing?
  
  Also, it might be worth mentioning weakness+shock induces sleep. 

 

 

Looking over all this I stand affirmed in my initial thought that rogue detonators are magnitudes superior to warrior detonators. 

[aznricepuff]

 

I guess this is why templars are so amazing at clearing stunn-able mobs. How did you get these weapon damage modifier? was it solely through testing?

Also, it might be worth mentioning weakness+shock induces sleep. 

 

Yeah, I got everything except the damage formula through testing. Basically me attacking one group of underleveled red templars over and over.

 

Also, thanks for the reminder on the weakness+shock combo. I forgot about that one. I'll do some testing on that one and add it in.

[teks]

This is very well made. Man, it should be stickied. Well done.

What are you working on next? Is there anything you would like help with?

[Rynas]

A couple of things:

 

• resistances: Either the melee defense, ranged defense, or magic defense stat of the defender, depending on the type of incoming damage. Note that magic defense is the sum of the general "Magic Defense" stat and any applicable elemental resistances (fire, cold, electricity, or spirit)

 

Actually, Defense and Resistance are two separate stats.  Elemental resistances are applied multiplicatively with defenses.  Additionally, defenses only apply to "classed" targets, so all "creatures" have a defense of zero.  See the code block below:

resistanceStat = DA3.GetDamageTypeVictimResistanceStat(DamageModifiers, type)
print("resistanceStat = " .. DA3.ToString(resistanceStat))
resistance = DA3.GetStatValueWithDamageCalculationModifiers(targetCharacter, resistanceStat, sourceCharacter, targetCharacter)
print("resistance to damage type = " .. resistance)
damage = damage * ((100 - resistance) / 100)   <-- TYPE RESISTANCE APPLIED TO DAMAGE
damage = math.max(0, damage)
print("damage after resistance = " .. damage)
defense = 0     <-- DEFAULT DEFENSE SET TO ZERO
if targetclass ~= CLASS_INVALID then      <-- DEFENSE SET TO NONZERO ONLY FOR VALID CLASSES (INCL. PLAYERS)
    defenseMelee = DA3.GetStatValueWithDamageCalculationModifiers(targetCharacter, StatDefenseMelee, sourceCharacter, targetCharacter)
    defenseRanged = DA3.GetStatValueWithDamageCalculationModifiers(targetCharacter, StatDefenseRanged, sourceCharacter, targetCharacter)
    defenseMagic = DA3.GetStatValueWithDamageCalculationModifiers(targetCharacter, StatDefenseMagic, sourceCharacter, targetCharacter)
    defenseAllFront = DA3.GetStatValueWithDamageCalculationModifiers(targetCharacter, Stat_Defense_All_Front, sourceCharacter, targetCharacter)
    print("Melee Defense = " .. defenseMelee)
    print("Ranged Defense = " .. defenseRanged)
    print("Magic Defense = " .. defenseMagic)
    print("Front Defense = " .. defenseAllFront)
    if flanking == false then
        print("Being attacked from front - adding front defense to all other defenses")
        defenseMelee = defenseMelee + defenseAllFront
        defenseRanged = defenseRanged + defenseAllFront
        defenseMagic = defenseMagic + defenseAllFront
    end
    naturalDamageType = false
    if type == 1 or type == 5 then
        naturalDamageType = true
    end
    print("naturalDamageType = " .. DA3.ToString(naturalDamageType))
    print("isMeleeRange = " .. DA3.ToString(isMeleeRange))
    if naturalDamageType == true and isMeleeRange == true then
        defense = defenseMelee
    elseif naturalDamageType == true and isMeleeRange == false then
        defense = defenseRanged
    else
        defense = defenseMagic
    end
    print("defense value used for this attack = " .. defense)
end
damage = damage * ((100 - defense) / 100)     <-- DEFENSE APPLIED TO DAMAGE AFTER TYPE RESISTANCE

[Edit: Ugh, bold doesn't work in code blocks - added comments and formatting]

 

Also:

 

• armor: armor value of the defender. Armor reduction only applies to physical damage. This value can be found under the Attributes tab of the character menu. For player-controlled characters, if damage is taken from the front, the value listed as "Armor: Front" used, otherwise the value listed as "Armor" is used instead (NPCs only have one armor value, which you can view in tactical mode).

 

This should actually be "effective armor," which is

 

effectiveArmor = math.max(0, armor - armorPenetration) * ((100 - armorPenetrationPercentage) / 100)

 

armorPenetration is a flat amount deducted from armor rating.  It is zero for all players.  For non-players, the value comes from a table and is level-dependent.  The base values vary from 56 at level 1 to 254 at level 23, but there are comments in the file that suggest they should be reduced somewhere down the line (stat_compute_armorpenetration_script).

 

armorPenetrationPercentage is the percentage-based AP that we're familiar with from items.  Apparently.

[Disco Overlord]

Great job!  This is so badly needed as Bioware's ingame descriptions are either incredibly lacking or misleading.

 

I think I read somewhere that Warrior's Resolve from the S&S warrior tree applies to barrier/guard loss as well.  However I've tried it in game it seems that barrier-decay doesn't give any noticeable extra stamina.  Can anyone deny/confirm?

[Exalus]

Why does the tooltip for twin fangs list:

number of hits: 2

damage per hit: 200%

damage bonus: 200% <- is this saying you gain additional 200% damage gain if you are flanking?

 

 

Does this mean with 100 base damage:

twin fangs non flanking = 300 damage

twin fangs with flanking = 500 damage

twin fangs flanking and factoring in flanking bonus(125% bonus with 25 base) =  625 final damage

damage for both daggers then becomes 1250 damage?

 

 

With ripping fangs does this mean you would be doing:

twin fangs non flanking = 300 damage

twin fangs with flanking = 500 damage

twin fangs flanking and factoring in flanking bonus(125% bonus with 25 base) =  625

twin fangs with upgrade modifies flanking bonus to (150% instead of 125%) = 650 

damage for both daggers then becomes 1300 final damage?

 

So really the upgrade is nothing unless your flanking bonus is much higher than 25% base?

[aznricepuff]

Actually, Defense and Resistance are two separate stats.  Elemental resistances are applied multiplicatively with defenses.  Additionally, defenses only apply to "classed" targets, so all "creatures" have a defense of zero. 

 

Good catch. I'll fix this in my post.

 

Great job!  This is so badly needed as Bioware's ingame descriptions are either incredibly lacking or misleading.

 

I think I read somewhere that Warrior's Resolve from the S&S warrior tree applies to barrier/guard loss as well.  However I've tried it in game it seems that barrier-decay doesn't give any noticeable extra stamina.  Can anyone deny/confirm?

 

Just tested this. While barrier decay (i.e. barrier losing strength just from timing out) does not trigger warrior's resolve, damage taken to guard and barrier does trigger it. In all cases, % stamina restored = damage taken / maximum health, but the game does not adjust for the fact that with guard/barrier up, you essentially have a much larger maximum health pool (especially true with barrier). Since damage dealt to barrier ignores armor and generally is much greater than damage dealt to health or guard, it's very easy to restore 100% of your stamina pool from a single hit if you have barrier up.

 

Why does the tooltip for twin fangs list:

number of hits: 2

damage per hit: 200%

damage bonus: 200% <- is this saying you gain additional 200% damage gain if you are flanking?

 

 

Does this mean with 100 base damage:

twin fangs non flanking = 300 damage

twin fangs with flanking = 500 damage

twin fangs flanking and factoring in flanking bonus(125% bonus with 25 base) =  625 final damage

damage for both daggers then becomes 1250 damage?

 

 

With ripping fangs does this mean you would be doing:

twin fangs non flanking = 300 damage

twin fangs with flanking = 500 damage

twin fangs flanking and factoring in flanking bonus(125% bonus with 25 base) =  625

twin fangs with upgrade modifies flanking bonus to (150% instead of 125%) = 650 

damage for both daggers then becomes 1300 final damage?

 

So really the upgrade is nothing unless your flanking bonus is much higher than 25% base?

 

Yeah, Twin Fangs and Ripping Fangs have some issues. The damage formulas I give are odd to be sure but I have an entire excel spreadsheet full of numbers that say that:

 

1) in-game testing is consistent with my published formulas

2) in-game testing is not consistent with other formulas that may make more sense given what the ability description says, including but not limited to:

• adding a flat 200% to damage_multiplier or ability_multiplier on flank (Twin Fangs)
• adding an additional flat 100% to flanking_bonus on flank (Ripping Fangs)
• adding a flat 100% to damage_multiplier or ability_multiplier on flank (Ripping Fangs)

Just to clarify, to calculate damage from Twin/Ripping Fangs, ignore everything said in the in-game description; it will just confuse you. Instead, use the following rules:

 

Twin Fangs:

When not flanking: a simple 200% ability multiplier per strike. Everything else proceeds normally.

When flanking: ability multiplier is still 200% but now add a flat 100% to your flanking bonus.

 

Ripping Fangs:

When not flanking: same as Twin Fangs.

When flanking: ability multiplier is still 200%, multiply your flanking bonus by 2 and then add another flat 100% on top of that.

 

So for example, let's say you have both main and off-hand damage of 50 and a flanking bonus of 30%. For simplicity assume that there are no critical hits and you are attacking an enemy with 0 armor and no other damage mitigation. The results will be:

 

Twin Fangs:

When not flanking: damage = 50 * 200% = 100 per strike

When flanking: damage = 50 * 200% * (100% + 30% + 100%) = 230 per strike

 

Ripping Fangs:

When not flanking: damage = 50 * 200% = 100 per strike

When flanking: damage = 50 * 200% * (100% + 30% * 2 + 100%) = 260 per strike

 

Hope that helped.

[Exalus]

I was calculating damage entirely wrong in that case.

100% of weapon damage means as much as base damage and 200% means twice as much rather than 200% meaning thrice as much.

 

Even then, the in game formulas for twinfangs+ is..well as good as worthless based on your findings.

Is twinfangs a special case due to it modifying flanking damage and most of the remaining skills will do damage consistent with tooltips?

 

For example is mighty blow as simple as:
50 base damage

100 damage for a standard hit (200% ability_damage) listed as Damage: 200% Weapon Damage for mighty blow

200 damage for a standard hit on a knocked down foe (200% damage_modifier) listed as Damage Bonus: 200% for mighty blow

250 damage for a knocked down enemy with upgrade (50% additional damage_modifier) Incorrectly listed as Damage Bonus: 300% for Easy Target which is a really confusing way to list it

 

So basically, a flanking twin fangs unupgraded will do more twice of the damage of an upgraded mightyblow on a knocked down foe and ripping fangs adds marginal additional damage if you have base flanking bonus. No wonder 2handed warrior is so utterly underwhelming in comparison to rogues unless you hit several enemies that are already knocked down.

[Shevy]

2H shouldn't be seen as a pure damage dealer class. Because with this view it is completely rubbish compared to rogues and even mages. As a melee CC/support/slight damage dealer class it does its job in a decent way. Adding in hidden blades masterwork is necessary though. I know it kind of sucks when you are mighty blow'ing a knocked down foe critical for 3k damage and the rogue besides you pumps out 7-9k crits and kills everything before you can land a hit, but with another view 2H can be enjoyable.

[zeypher]

I was calculating damage entirely wrong in that case.

100% of weapon damage means as much as base damage and 200% means twice as much rather than 200% meaning thrice as much.

 

Even then, the in game formulas for twinfangs+ is..well as good as worthless based on your findings.

Is twinfangs a special case due to it modifying flanking damage and most of the remaining skills will do damage consistent with tooltips?

 

For example is mighty blow as simple as:
50 base damage

100 damage for a standard hit (200% ability_damage) listed as Damage: 200% Weapon Damage for mighty blow

200 damage for a standard hit on a knocked down foe (200% damage_modifier) listed as Damage Bonus: 200% for mighty blow

250 damage for a knocked down enemy with upgrade (50% additional damage_modifier) Incorrectly listed as Damage Bonus: 300% for Easy Target which is a really confusing way to list it

 

So basically, a flanking twin fangs unupgraded will do more twice of the damage of an upgraded mightyblow on a knocked down foe and ripping fangs adds marginal additional damage if you have base flanking bonus. No wonder 2handed warrior is so utterly underwhelming in comparison to rogues unless you hit several enemies that are already knocked down.

Pretty much this game has by far the weakest 2 handed warrior. It is that bad.

[LexXxich]

This testing was made before or after Patch 3/Patch 3 hotfix?

[aznricepuff]

This testing was made before or after Patch 3/Patch 3 hotfix?

 

Half of it was done before patch 3, half of it after. However I'm pretty sure patch 3 did not change anything that I tested before it came out (which was mostly whether rogue abilities used main-hand or off-hand damage for their calculations while equipping double daggers).
 
Besides what's in the official patch notes, the only ninja-fix from patch 3 (to do with combat mechanics) I'm aware of is fixing Immolate to actually be a working detonator.

 

I was calculating damage entirely wrong in that case.
100% of weapon damage means as much as base damage and 200% means twice as much rather than 200% meaning thrice as much.

 
Yes, you're on the right track now.
 

Is twinfangs a special case due to it modifying flanking damage and most of the remaining skills will do damage consistent with tooltips?
 
For example is mighty blow as simple as:
50 base damage
100 damage for a standard hit (200% ability_damage) listed as Damage: 200% Weapon Damage for mighty blow
200 damage for a standard hit on a knocked down foe (200% damage_modifier) listed as Damage Bonus: 200% for mighty blow
250 damage for a knocked down enemy with upgrade (50% additional damage_modifier) Incorrectly listed as Damage Bonus: 300% for Easy Target which is a really confusing way to list it

 
Twin fangs is a special case in that its damage formula is so obtuse and unlike anything else I've encountered in my testing. However, a lot of abilities have behavior (damage calculation included) that is not 100% consistent with in-game descriptions. I have a lot of entries for abilities in my guide and if it's listed there, it means I found at least one aspect of the ability's in-game description to be mistaken, incomplete, or misleading.
 
As for the example case you gave for Mighty Blow, it is technically correct, but only if you assume the target has 0 armor, and that the attacker has a 0% attack bonus, no other bonuses to damage_multiplier, and is not benefiting from a creature type bonus (i.e. from creature research). To see how those last three parameters would affect damage, let's assume the following:

• Attacker with 50 base damage, 25% attack bonus, a 50% damage_multiplier bonus from Horn of Valor (+ upgrade), and a 50% creature type bonus from creature research.
• Defender with 0 armor and no resistances.
• We are going to ignore critical hits and flanking bonuses for simplicity.

Vs. standing enemy:

damage = 50 * 200% [ability multiplier] * (100% [default damage_multiplier value] + 50% [bonus from Horn of Valor] + 25% [attack_bonus] + 50% [creature_type_bonus]) = 225

 
Vs. knocked down enemy:

damage = 50 * 200% [ability_multiplier] * (100% [default damage_multiplier value] + 100% [bonus from Mighty Blow for knocked down defender] + 50% [bonus from Horn of Valor] + 25% [attack_bonus] + 50% [creature_type_bonus]) = 325

 
Vs. knocked down enemy (with Easy Target upgrade):

damage = 50 * 200% [ability_multiplier] * (100% [default damage_multiplier value] + 100% [bonus from Mighty Blow for knocked down defender] 50% [bonus from Easy Target for knocked down defender] + 50% [bonus from Horn of Valor] + 25% [attack_bonus] + 50% [creature_type_bonus]) = 375

In this case, hitting a knocked down enemy results in a 44.4% increase in damage vs. a standing enemy without the upgrade (not a 100% or even 200% increase as the description implies). With the upgrade, that number increases to 66.7%, not 300% (in fact I have no idea where Bioware came up with the 300% number).
 
The above shows why I don't like Bioware's decision to refer to damage_multiplier bonuses simply as "damage bonus: X%". That phrasing might lead you to believe that the damage bonus is a straightforward % increase over unaffected damage (i.e. multiplicative), whereas the truth is that damage_multiplier is additive with attack_bonus, type_bonus, and other damage_multiplier bonuses, meaning that if either attack_bonus or type_bonus is positive, or the attacker is already benefiting from a damage_multiplier bonus from somewhere else, an X% bonus to damage_multiplier leads to an increase over unaffected damage of less than X%, sometimes much less.

[Exalus]

Thanks for the clarification, I feel much better about the formulas now.

SnS just got a lot better from a pure numbers perspective, daggers still king and 2h is mehhh.

[aznricepuff]

Just added a section on autoattacks. Interestingly, Bioware's formula for calculating weapon DPS seems to be incorrect, making in-game DPS numbers more or less worthless.

[Exalus]

Just added a section on autoattacks. Interestingly, Bioware's formula for calculating weapon DPS seems to be incorrect, making in-game DPS numbers more or less worthless.

Does this only apply to autoattacks? I saw mages have huge Edps for autoattacks but their skills still be properly calculated by in game weapon damage right?

[aznricepuff]

Does this only apply to autoattacks? I saw mages have huge Edps for autoattacks but their skills still be properly calculated by in game weapon damage right?

 

I was just talking about the weapon DPS numbers that you see in the inventory screen when you select/hover over a weapon. Those numbers have no practical effect on anything else in the game; they are there to help people better compare different weapons. I was just pointing out that those DPS numbers are incorrect because Bioware seems to be using the wrong values for average attack speed.

 

So in short: no, the errors in weapon DPS listed in-game does not mean that ability damage isn't calculated correctly.

 

--------------------------------

P.S. If you or anybody else is curious, this is (part of) the script used to calculate in-game numbers for weapon DPS:

-- 0: none
-- 1: 1-handed
-- 2: 2-handed
-- 3: dual
-- 4: archery
-- 5: staff
-- 6: bianca
-- 7: 2-handed alt
-- 8: 1-handed alt
-- 9: dual alt
-- 10: staff alt
 
hitsPerSecondTable = {1.11, 1.13, 2.57, 1.13, 1.62, 1.13, 1.01, 1.46, 2.49, 1.93}
if(WeaponStyle < 1 or WeaponStyle > 10) then
print("Invalid weapon style value")
return 1;
end
 
weaponStyleValue = hitsPerSecondTable[WeaponStyle]
print("Calculating DPS for item with damage= " .. PrimaryItem .. ", rune damage= " .. PrimaryRune .. ", weapon style= " .. WeaponStyle .. ", weapon style value= " .. weaponStyleValue);
 
DPS = (PrimaryItem + PrimaryRune) * weaponStyleValue;

Note that the values in hitsPerSecondTable do not agree with what I derived with my testing.

[WJC3688]

Some observations of my own regarding Block and Slash:

 

--Similar to Parry, you can only block some melee attacks with it, namely "normal" melee swings such as those of standard Sellswords, Outlaws, w/e. Melee attacks that would knock you down, such as a bear's 360 AOE slam or a dragon's claw swipes, cannot be blocked with this. However this is not a 100% consistent rule. For example you CAN block the attacks, both normal overhand swing and bull charge, of the shield-bearing "defender" type enemies which normally would cause knockdown.

 

--The counter-swing seems to have a narrow cone AOE, it is quite possible to hit multiple enemies with it even if only one of them swung at you so long as they are standing close enough together. It seems to be angled towards the direction of the enemy that attacked you, as opposed to being aimed squarely in the direction you're facing.

 

I'm not sure on the angles from which you can block while sustaining the ability, I would assume that it is 180 degrees in front of you similar to the other blocking abilities though. I know for sure that there is some amount of space behind you where you will not be able to block attacks while sustaining the ability, as I've had enemies hit me in the back while using it.

 

Also not sure if, in the case that 2 or more enemies swing at you more or less simultaneously, the ability blocks (as in prevents the damage of) all of the attacks, or only 1.

[aznricepuff]

Some observations of my own regarding Block and Slash:

...

 

Thanks for the info. Did some testing on block and slash, and looks like the arc for the counterattack is actually quite large (I was sometimes able to hit enemies that were standing almost directly behind the caster) but asymmetrical. The ability also consumes a lot more stamina than the in-game description implies. Updated the OP with the new info (along with some other stuff).

[WJC3688]

Yea the hitbox on the counterattack is very weird. I have had cases where there were 3 enemies in front of me, the one I blocked got hit, the guy to his right did not, but the guy to the right of that guy DID get hit as well O_o

 

Also if I'm reading this right the Contact Poison upgrade to Toxic Cloud is worthless, and actually does nothing?

[aznricepuff]

Also if I'm reading this right the Contact Poison upgrade to Toxic Cloud is worthless, and actually does nothing?

 

Indeed. Obviously it's a bug, so it may get fixed eventually, but for now you essentially can save an ability point with that one.

[Exalus]

Is there a combo set for sleep+impact? 

 

edit: thanks, I feel silly :<

[aznricepuff]

Is there a combo set for sleep+impact? 

 

Yes, it's Rupture, the same as stun + precision. It's the fourth from the bottom in the combo section.