A General Guide to Dark Age of Camelot gameplay mechanics.

Phar0z' Test

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Tests done while fully buffed.




date posted 6/4/2003

Test subjects:
50 Ranger. 50 Druid

Ranger stats:
45 + 13 Bow
16.5 99 qual bow used. 5.5 speed.
16.0 effective DPS.
Pierce Arrows

350 Dex. 281 Quickness.





It is to be noted that min/max values from this test cannot be taken as being the definitive marks for the actual min/max since the sample size is too low. The actual min value could be lower than the figure logged and the actual max could be higher than the one logged here. Another thing to note is that the player did not indicate whether or not hibernia had relics at the time. This could potentially skew the data. The purpose of this summary is to give an idea of the general range on the damage presented in this live log to offer as a comparison to how things are working with uthgard and how things should / do work on the live servers at the time of the posting.


One interesting point about this test was that it shows the effects of using lower damaging arrows. In this case, the tester was using light damage arrows which have an effect of -15% modification to the base damage since it adds a multiplier of 0.85. To find out the variance mark of which the base figure is calculated off of, one simply attempts to find the missing function ni the equation
x * 0.85 = y, where y is the resulting damages listed in the log.

The methodology used here was to take the damage value from the log such as:

[08:10:01] You shoot Gimptastic with your bow and hit for 262 (-32) damage!

262 is the damage taken by the target after resists. The value Y (the total damage given by the attacker) is the result of adding the damage sustained with the amount resisted or simply 262 +32 = 294. Now that we have y, it is a simple matter of finding x through the following equation x = y / 0.85 or x = 292 / 0.85 and we get the product of 343.52941176470588235294117647059 which can be rounded to simply 343. 343 represents the base damage figure of which the arrow modified. If the arrow were a broadhead type with a modifier of 1.25 then this figure would have gone through the conversion process 343 x 1.25 with a resulting increase to 428.


The predicted observed min/max values at 25% bonus damage were obtained simply by taking the lowest and highest recorded damage figures and putting them through the conversion process to regress the missing value X. Then the value was put through the process of finding what the result would be of adding a 1.25 multiplier to X. The final results are what the min/max would be at 25% bonus damage if broadhead arrows were used instead of the light damage types.



The observed min and max for Phar0z's Test 229 and 316. This leads me to conclude that the base values that were modified are 269 and 372, respectively. With the base values known, then it may be safe be assume that factoring in a 25% bonus for broadhead arrows would yield values around 337 for the min and 465 for the max.



Next in line are the predicted min/max values. These were calculated using the standard bow damage formula. Calculating pure values without truncation/rounding yielded an predicted min/max that were slightly higher than the observed min/max. It is to be noted that the predicted min value could approach the observed min depending on how the values are rounded. Daoc often rounded or truncated values off in various ways and the decimal cut off point would have to be known to see an actual picture of the true min/max as calculated by the server in some cases. The predicted min and max for -15% damage light arrows in this case were 240 and 339. The predicted min and max for broadhead arrows were 354 and 499.