Damage Stats

Dante the Warlord

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/R

Hey im just wondering what the actual difference in terms of damage between a perfect inscription and an slightly imperfect inscription, i.e what is the difference in damage between a +13%^50 mod and a +15%^50 mod. If there is already something like this please direct me towards the page via link Im just curious...

anonymous

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

100 damage will do 115 damage with 15^50 and 113 with 13^50. The difference gets smaller the smaller the damage you are doing gets. I'm not sure how Guild Wars rounds so I can't really do smaller damages.

MisterB

MisterB

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy

[ban]

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Damage less than 1 gets dropped, not rounded, I believe. See Prot Spirit and 55 builds. Prot Spirit reduces damage to 10% of 55 = 5.5 damage, but you only take 5.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

Here's a link to Ensign's article http://www.guildwarsguru.com/content...nics-id674.php

Also, I believe the wiki's both have similar Damage guides.

joshuarodger

joshuarodger

Unbanned

Join Date: Jan 2008

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] -- IGN: Swirly

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterB
Damage less than 1 gets dropped, not rounded, I believe. See Prot Spirit and 55 builds. Prot Spirit reduces damage to 10% of 55 = 5.5 damage, but you only take 5.
fractional damage gets rounded. .5 or less rounds down.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by anonymous
100 damage will do 115 damage with 15^50 and 113 with 13^50. The difference gets smaller the smaller the damage you are doing gets. I'm not sure how Guild Wars rounds so I can't really do smaller damages.
Yeah, but you don't do 100 damage on a sword swing (the +damage from skills is armor ignoring and not affected by damage mods).

N E D M

N E D M

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Officer's Club

Gameamp Guides [AMP]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante the Warlord
Hey im just wondering what the actual difference in terms of damage between a perfect inscription and an slightly imperfect inscription, i.e what is the difference in damage between a +13%^50 mod and a +15%^50 mod. If there is already something like this please direct me towards the page via link Im just curious...
the difference is 2%

Dante the Warlord

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by N E D M
the difference is 2%
Lol very funny

No i think the difference is about 1 between 13^50 and 15^50 using a sword. and i think about the same as 14^50 since it rounds down.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Actually, it may be that the "display" of the damage is rounded down, but the actual damage may not be.

At any rate, the difference in damage between 13^50 and 15^50, in PvE, is not worth worrying about. It's always nice to do the max you can, but not a necessity. (Which is why worrying about which class is "best" is really meaningless - but that's another discussion )

In PvP, of course, you always want the max. If everything else is equal, a 15^50 will beat a 13^50.