New Mage damage formula

Don't try to bring in logic my pal. It's just a circlejerk in the forums. Begoorato calling the old thread a mess is great. Me calling the old thread a mess is somehow avoiding criticism. Not sure what kind of logic is that lmfao.

 

Edited original post to include comparison of level up INT vs external INT.

Conclusion:
If you just want to flex DPM and make full use of the new formula, stop leveling up!

Unlike those old-fashioned non-mage attackers who need to level up to fully enjoy scaling, all you need as a mage is $$$. With some great gear, I reckon a low-mid level mage can now compete or perhaps out-dpm those classic single target DPM classes at the same level. Sorry I was wrong about the striked out part, mage damage still can't compete.

 

Given that you are one of the richest players who like to push limits, could you help to test? A perf gear lvl 130 FP vs a perf gear lvl 130 NL? Echo and mw30 them both. I am actually pretty curious kek.

 

Ok i think you might be right. Even if the lvl 130 mage has addtional 550 tma externally (not sure if possible), the buff over old formula is 37%. The NL damage should definitely have been more than that.
Oh well, at least you can say u are doing 30,000x the damage of a naked mage

 

Upon further thought, I have another alternative suggestion for staff to consider.

How about keeping the old formula and changing the impact from scrolls?

For example:
Wand 100%: +1ma
Wand 60%: +2ma + 1 INT
Wand 10%: +2ma + 1 INT + 1 spell attack

This way those who perfected their weapons from ws10 do get an increased scaling from high levels. No naked mages need to be nerfed.

 

Yes, logistically might be unfeasible, just throwing ideas out there. You can also introduce it as an new item and wait for the server to stablise in the long term, though abit unfair to current players.

 

Hi, were you planning to enlighten me on what criticism I ignored and refused to deal with in the other thread? Went back to take a look, couldn't find it.

Only thing I realised was that I sought clarifications to two specific reponses by staff members and was ignored.

 

The physical damage formula isn't quadratic at all??? It multiplies base stat with WA, meaning the increase of either stat or wa synergises with each other in terms of final damage output.

Yes I have acknowledged that the mage fornula led to slight scaling, I just didn't call it quadratic, I said squaring.

The difference is that the old mage formula's squaring portion leads to increased scaling as total tma increases (meaning scaling from both lvl and gear), the new formula changed the squaring to be purely on excess tma (scaling depends on current gear). This is problematic because it makes INT from leveling almost worthless compared to INT from gear.

 

No, top end mages still get outscaled by attackers by quite a margin. Mid lvl/gear mages got nerfed, so they are even worse than pre-change.

 

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So, no impact from formula revamp.