Rifleman Archive
Thread: What is with those damage numbers
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Waste93
Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:41 pm
#14
HARP00N wrote:
and resistances are taken account after AP calculation? Would there be a difference if it was the other way around?
First thing is the base number and that is modified by any damage multiplier for a special being used. Then it compares AP vs AR and adjusts. Then it takes into account resists.
As the other poster stated there really isn't much of a difference. The only differencemight be because of rounding and it would be minimal.
HARP00N
Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:31 am
#15
so its better for the target to have even as much as 40% resists vs your damage type rather than have no resists at allbecause then you lose your cumulative damage stack vs AR 0?
Waste93 wrote:
There is one other issue to take into account. If the target is vulnerable to the damage type then it is considered to have AR0. However if vulnerable the weapon also does not get it's damage bonus. So if you use a T21 vs something vulnerable to energy you only do 100% damage. Not 195%. This is easy to see since the combat spam and floaty damage will be exactly the same.
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