Information December 2023 Balance Changes [Explained]

I hope you’re lifting with your legs.

 

Gee archmage, how come your mom lets you have two buffs?

 

what an uncontroversial round of balance changes, great work!

 

The new mage formula looks well thought out, very nice! Good thing it's still quadratic or we'd all be going back to high school.

 

Should probably asterisk the damage values in the skill changes thread here https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/maplelegends-skill-changes.39396/

Something I don't quite understand is gearTMA

Does this mean you could now benefit more from specing into LUK rather than scrolling for LUK and scrolling OA for INT instead of LUK because [INT on gear > base INT] ? I'm not sure I understand correctly since that seems like a strange mechanic.

This isn't criticism, I'm more just curious if I'm understanding correctly. If you had a mage with 100 base LUK and scrolled equipment for LUK to use a staff would it now be better to instead sac the base INT and just get base 165 LUK now? I'm assuming gearTMA means INT on OA is stronger than base INT for example.

 

TMA can be broken down into base int + gear + mw so just plug it in, on Xiao's post gear+mw is the same thing as gear

 

I thought specifying 'gear'TMA meant it was INT+MA from 'gear' specifically. Just worded a little weird for me I guess.

 

yeah mw can be included to that for simplicity. luk is usually exchanged for ma so thats why it's tma - int - luk

however with that formula you should still avoid luk mage unless you're minimizing luk without scrolling for it. it's really onlyworth if you can have less than like 20 base luk.

 

Love to see that we're in this together.

 

Hi, sorry if I comment an old post but I think here is the most updated damage formula for magician.

I'd like to code a damage calculator in JavaScript and reported the formula this way (I hope, I didn't mess up):

Code:

damage = (baseINT, baseLUK, Magic, Spell_Attack, Mastery) => {
    maxDamage =
    ( baseINT * (Magic - baseINT - Math.min(baseLUK,100)*0.5) / 6700  +   baseINT/38 + (Magic - baseINT - Math.min(baseLUK,100)*0.5) / 14                            + Math.log10(Math.max(1,Magic)) ) * Spell_Attack;
    minDamage =
    ( baseINT * (Magic - baseINT - Math.min(baseLUK,100)*0.5) / 6700  +  (baseINT/38 + (Magic - baseINT - Math.min(baseLUK,100)*0.5) / 14) * (Mastery*3 + 30)*0.0107 + Math.log10(Math.max(1,Magic)) ) * Spell_Attack;
 
  return {maxDamage,minDamage}
}

What I don't understand is the log of the max part. Isn't Magic always greater or equal 1 ?
Is the formula in JS correct? Is there a more updated one? (I'm taking it from the right place?)

It may look a trivial job the one I'm trying to do but if i don't check values by my self I don't feel confident on how I should build my mage(s).

Thank you in advance
Manny