According to my character sheet, my level 35 destroyer deals 514-1,028 strength damage, 0 ranged damage and 9-17 magic damage. Summing these values gives me:
514 + 0 + 9 = 523
1,028 + 0 + 17 = 1,045
Gnomeslice's level 24 alchemist, according to his character sheet, deals 2-3 strength damage, 306-612 ranged damage and 287-573 ranged damage. Summing these values gives me:
2 + 306 + 287 = 595
3 + 612 + 573 = 1,188
Does that mean that my level 35 destroyer deals 523-1,045 damage per second, while Gnome's level 24 alchemist does 595-1,188? or do these damage figures overlap, bringing a total damage per second that's less than the sum of its parts?
Best Answer
The Torchlight Wikia page breaks the damage formulas down as follows:
Armis on the Runic Games forum, created a formula that accounts for other factors that mitigate damage and give more than a raw output of the character under an ideal:
The above is accompanied with an exhaustive explanation defining mitigating factors and how they tested to work in the study. Briefly:
Through that, beastmodeengaged on the Runic Games forum was inspired to create this spreadsheet with the notice it is designed around the Engineer/Emberquake class and can be modified to apply to others as well.