Power Rangers: A Guide To Pewing

Think of it like this you get A, B, C stats, and you get a pool of points to add to each stat, say 93. What is the way so that:

A * B * C is the biggest number you can get? The answer is 31 to A, 31 to B, and 31 to C.

31 * 31 * 31 = 29,791

But what if we dumped almost ALL our points into just A?
91 * 1 * 1 = 91

Of course, we always have some of everything so it's never that extreme. But in optimizing my magic and bp dmg sets on smn, it comes into play, same with attack vs bp damage and it holds true for any stat I'm aware of. AGI as a WSmod goes toward base dmg which is multiplied too so it holds true for ws too they just aren't exactly 1 point = 1 point added to the multiplier due to how they are added in.

Anyway, to know how much a stat benefits you, you have to know how much you have, as well as how much of any other stats you have in the damage equation if you're picking between competing stats so you can't make static relationships for any stats at all.

Another way some think of it is take what you would get / what you would have for a % increase but for things like WS this doesn't hold true when calcing WSmod's weight for reasons I said above. So again we're just back to the spreadsheet or doing the math by hand. SE didn't make gear comparisons in this game easy but for some that's one of the good things because it makes gear and the game dynamic. Maybe WoW had a system designed around the idea of making easy gear comparisons. FFXI gets too complex for that tho :/

One interesting thing to note however, even tho as you get more and more of a stat, your % increase in damage goes down, one thing that does go up is how much flat damage each stat adds.

Ex with 2000 base dmg ws and 1% wsd and 1.1 PDIF
2000 x 1.1 * 1.01 = 2222 1% wsd = 20 dmg alone, but with pdif 1% wsd adds 22 damage and the increase in adding 1% wsd is 1%.

Ex.2 adding 100% wsd and 100% pdif to the prior example:
2000 x 2.1 * 2.01 = 8442 Now 1% wsd adds 44 damage but the increase in adding 1% wsd is only .497% in damage. That's why I feel flat dmg comparisons are more true to what is happening, it gets weird if you use end rather than start as your point of reference, comparing flat damage your WSD per point has gone from 20 per point to 44 per point, or a 120% increase in damage per wsd point.

So basically, your % increases scale down but your damage is actually growing more rapidly.