Awesome! I've often wondered how much my average # of hits to kill a monster would be affected if I, say, wore my +5 str, +8 speed boots instead of my +16 speed boots. Or how much the +5 str from leveling up affects it. Now I can find out. (I'd have to look up how much my advanced combo adds to my damage though.)
It would be great if this formula was incorporated into a calculator for all of the known MS formulas so that damage range could be easily determined...
Edit: If it's too difficult to work out the math for criticals and such, you could try the simulation approach - simulate, say, 1000 monster kills and use the statistics from that. It would be inexact and you'd get a different answer every time, but it's better than nothing, assuming the number of simulated kills needed to get reasonably good results doesn't take more than a couple seconds to compute.
It would be great if this formula was incorporated into a calculator for all of the known MS formulas so that damage range could be easily determined...
Edit: If it's too difficult to work out the math for criticals and such, you could try the simulation approach - simulate, say, 1000 monster kills and use the statistics from that. It would be inexact and you'd get a different answer every time, but it's better than nothing, assuming the number of simulated kills needed to get reasonably good results doesn't take more than a couple seconds to compute.