Projectile Damage

I searched the forum for the past hour and couldn't figure this out...Time to post about it and ask.

How does Projectile damage fit into the order of operations for damage calculation?

For example, if I hypothetically had 50 physical damage, 50 fire damage, a 15% fire damage increase, a 15% projectile damage increase, and scored a critical strike without any critical damage modifiers, what would my final damage be?

50 fire
50 physical

physical*1.15 + fire*1.15 since both are being increased by projectile damage

but one is not fire damage

physical*1.15 + fire*1.3

thus only it gets the bonus projectile increase

adding them together gets you 122.5 total damage

then you do 122.5*your critical multiplier to get final dmage

This wass towards item mods, but it applies, as far as I know, universally in GGG's game vocabulary

From Mark_GGG in the mechanics thread:

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All "% increased" or "% reduced" modifiers to a particular value stack additively with each other, while "% more" and "% less" modifiers stack multiplicatively. "additional" adds directly to the value (most commonly used on things like resistances), and in general "removes" or "subtracts" is I think used as the inverse of that depending on context.

So basically, it's all multiplication, but first, the '% increased mods' or all added together. Then the base is multiplied by this amount, then each individual 'more' multiplier.

In your case, this is ((50*(1+.15))+(50*(1+.15+.15))*1.5)=183.75

wow, i actually understood that explanation

so, it's worth it to put passive skill tree points towards the projectile damages

but not necessarily worth it to go out of your way to get all of them, unless they are near any major passive skill you plan to acquire even if you are a ranger or a hybrid ranger build

Yes it is very worth putting points into projectile damage.

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AllGamer wrote:

wow, i actually understood that explanation

so, it's worth it to put passive skill tree points towards the projectile damages

but not necessarily worth it to go out of your way to get all of them, unless they are near any major passive skill you plan to acquire even if you are a ranger or a hybrid ranger build

This is true for all nodes. It is not worth it to spend 10+ passive points to climb up to a small cluster just so you can say "Yes! I got every +mace damage node on the tree!" That kind of min/maxing doesn't work out because an additive 8% damage is not significant after a while.

You need to justify passive purchases by saying, "I can access 3 clusters if I go there." About the only things that violate this heuristic are rare stats like %life regenerated per second.

yes, i design my path of passive skills around grabbing as many +% mana or life regen as possible

however i put more emphasis into passives that adds into the Damage


...well the logic is, the faster you can eliminate your foes, before they hit you, the less you'll have to worry about spending more stats on life and regen


pretty much like Glass Cannon build i guess