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[TimeBomb]

Any thoughts on making the tooltips damage update when your power or weapon damage changes?


Per the Damage article on the gw2 wiki, the tooltip damage formula is:

Tooltip damage = (average weapon strength) * Power * (skill-specific coefficient) / (level-based Armor value)

Thus, basic algebra (assuming I still remembered how to do that right, it's been a little while haha) shows that the skill-specific coefficient algorithm is:

Skill-specific coefficient = (tooltip damage * level-based Armor value) / (average weapon strength * power)

At level 80, level-based Armor Value = 2600.

P.S. Math I did for finding the skill-specific coefficient, used my DD ele with steady weapons:

dmg = wep * pow * skill / armor
dmg * armor = wep * pow * skill
skill = (dmg * armor) / (wep * pow)

129 = 238 * 2004 * skill / 2600
129 * 2600 = 238 * 2004 * skill
skill = (129 * 2600) / (238 * 2004)
skill = 0.7032154179
dmg = 238 * 2004 * 0.7032154179 / 2600
dmg = 129

Edited by TimeBomb, 10 July 2013 - 11:53 AM.

[Devourerofmemes]

It's been on the radar, but we only have one programmer and atm he has been working basically Pro bono for a year. I think the 3 of us will need a bit of a break after the guide crunch. So if this gets added it would be in a polish update down the road. He's currently working too late into the night after a full day of work as it is just to wrap up guides. So I'll let him reply to this thread, with how much interest he has in this lol.

[TimeBomb]

It's been on the radar, but we only have one programmer and atm he has been working basically Pro bono for a year. I think the 3 of us will need a bit of a break after the guide crunch. So if this gets added it would be in a polish update down the road. He's currently working too late into the night after a full day of work as it is just to wrap up guides. So I'll let him reply to this thread, with how much interest he has in this lol.

No problem, that's quite understandable. Props to him for doing it all pro bono. Skimming over the HTML, it should actually be possible to automatically update the tooltip damage with a client-sided javascript modification only, i.e. someone could do it externally.

Edited by TimeBomb, 10 July 2013 - 11:46 PM.