LongShotJohn Wrote:Side note: Is there any mention of equipment level in the dmg formulas? (Say, does a lvl 140 take more dmg for wearing a lvl 30 overall asides from the obvious def loss versus wearing their class's lvl 110 overall?)
I disconfirmed this to the best of my abilities in 0.55 because of that stupid rumour... comparing level 50 gear (ie zakum helm) to level 100 gear (forget what helm is called but it has about 60 less def), damage was identical.
The reason higher level players take more damage is they're higher level. Not because they're wearing sauna robes.
When they changed the damage formula (adding that last component, plus some weird STR stuff like Fiel mentioned), damage increased for everybody who wasn't a beginner. The old formula was simply [atk^2 /125 - def*0.5~0.6].