New Formulas Simplified

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What are you on about?

I think you mean:

Night Lords now have a
2.00*(4 * LUK + DEX) * (Weapon Attack / 100)
or (8 * LUK + 2 * DEX) * (Weapon Attack / 100)
from
(5 * LUK) * (Weapon Attack /100)

and Corsairs now have a
1.60*(4 * DEX + STR) * (Weapon Attack / 100)
or (6.4 * DEX + 1.6 * STR) * (Weapon Attack /100)
from
(3.6 * DEX + 0.9 * STR) * (Weapon Attack/100)

I don't understand what you mean about how 'most other classes got a decrease in the primary stat multiplier or had a low-ish overall multiplier'.

All classes now have an overall higher damage range now and it's shallow to only compare a couple of weapons without seeing the big picture: i.e new skill damage values, completely changed mob values.

I just see Claws, Guns and Knuckles being higher in the damage tier post-patch as opposed to now.

It's not hard to compare formulas now from before. Just multiply your Primary stat by 4 and multiply your Primary and Secondary stats by your class's new multiplier(x) or insert in into the format:

(4*x*primary + x*secondary) * (Weapon Attack / 100)


then compare with:

(x*primary + 0.9*secondary) * (Weapon Attack /100)

Just make 'x' in this case your old weapon multiplier


Or use this as a reference:

http://www.hidden-street.net/forum/threa...MapleStory

What I mean is, let's take the Corsair formula: 1.6 * (4 * DEX + STR) * (W. ATT/100)
1.6 is the overall multiplier. 4 is the main stat multiplier.
For NL's, comparing only the total multiplier on the main stat, you get 8, compared to 5.
For Corsairs, you get 6.4 compared to 3.6
6.4/3.6 > 8/5.
(As far as I can tell, this was exactly what you said; I didn't feel like writing out the entire formula the first time)

What I mean about the "decrease in primary stat multiplier" was that some classes, such as warriors, got a decrease from 4.8 (or was it 4.4) to 4, which their 1.2x multiplier barely makes up for. The second part means that some other classes, such as BMs, who saw an increase in their primary stat multiplier (went from 3.4 to 4.0), got a low overall multiplier: 1.15.

So what I meant was the percentage increase in damage range is bigger for corsairs than pretty much every other class.

And yes, it's true that this isn't an actual dps calculation, but I never said that I was comparing dps, only damage ranges.

Sorry, should have made myself clearer the first time, that would have saved you from posting a huge wall of text. It does look like I don't really know what I'm doing in my other post, I guess I was tired.