You’ve made a mistake on the bottom line. 1,000 x 7.5 x 2.5 x 1.09 = 20,437.5, not 22,437.5. 22,437.5 = 1,000 x 8.2 x 2.5 x 1.09.
Added damage is an entirely different thing which relates to the base damage (the 1,000) which we have this far rightly ignored as it has no effect on the question of “which is more effective, increased damage or penetration”.
If you have 0% increased spell damage, that just means you multiply the base damage by 1. Otherwise why do you think we’ve been multiplying by 8.2 for the 720% multiplier this is just basic arithmetic? Granted the crit multi doesn’t work like that, but that’s the only instance.
Diablo 3 for instance has a sheet dmg calculated but it’s extremely misleading. Things like area damage don’t even get counted because how could they, they depend on the amount of mobs you hit, etc. For last epoch, different skills have diff mods and scale differently with added dmg, so a dps tooltip would be inaccurate. The best thing to do is understand the game mechanics and your build and gear.
That’s not true. Added damage is just base damage, so that should be calculated accurately. Things like AoE can’t be calculated because the skill dps can’t know how many mobs there are that would be hit (which is why D3’s dps doesn’t include area damage). But single target damage should be easily calculated, hopefully it’ll be dynamic so as your buffs start or wear off the damage figures change.
but some skills are just base dmg * intel * 1.04 * dmg mods but glacier for instance the large hit is base dmg * intel * 1.04 * (dmg mods *3.5). Then in the skill tree most ppl take reduced crit multiplier (to get to the mana refunding nodes and get the base crit %) which would make it even more inaccurate. I guess you could argue that’s aoe but even on one mob it would be inaccurate. Then you also have skill modifiers in the single target spell trees that would affect damage. They could make a base autoattack dmg sheet like diablo does but it’s almost useless and people that go by it usually make wrong gear decisions.
Why would it be inaccurate? Every skill has an added damage effectiveness that is used to multiply any flat added damage from gear/passives/skill tree (if it’s not mentioned then the default is 100%). That doesn’t need to be displayed, the user would be just as informed if the skill dps screen gave the total base damage rather than split it out into its components.
To be fair, multi-stage skills like glacier would be harder to display “nicely”, unless they gave the damage and crit chance & crit damage for each stage.
IMO the PoE skill dps screen in the character screen is a good starting point for how to display the skill info (in terms of the UI). I like how it shows the calculated damage, crit chance, attack/cast speed, ailment proc chance & damage, etc. But I’d tweak it a bit for LE by adding in skill specific bits such as the data for the separate stages of glacier, the number of chains and damage per chain for lightning blast, ricochets for shield throw, etc.
It would only be inaccurate if they missed modifiers out ignoring the whole aoe thing I mentioned earlier.
Maybe it would be easier to have “handcrafted” skill dps tabs that are specific to each skill rather than trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all screen. That way you would only need to include info pertinent to the skill.
