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  1. #1
    CoP Dynamis
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
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    4
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    Cerberus

    Weapon Physical Damage and Auto-Attack ???

    Sorry, noob question here, but I don't get what these stats do.

    My guess is Physical Damage is the base damage for weaponskill calculations and Auto-Attack is the base damage for automatic melee hits...
    And I also guess it's not that simple >.<;


    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks.

  2. #2

    It's that simple.

    It's why any calculation of "DPS" rating for a weapon is irrelevant because the DMG rating only matters for skills which are tied to the GCD, not a weapon's AA delay.

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    Running Hell
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    Apr 2010
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    Hyperion

    From what others have gleaned from some rough Damage Calculations your Weaponskill damage is a function of Weapon Damage modified by STR(or DEX for BRD) and DET and ultimately multiplied by potency (ie. 150 potency is 150% of whatever the WD+STR+DET function returns). Auto-Attacks potency is based on WeaponDelay/3 and the Auto-Attack value on the weapon is just a value based on your WD times the potency to give a rough estimate of how much your WD affects your Auto-attacks, before STR and DET.

    For example Curtana+1 has 2.32 delay which means it's auto-attacks have a 2.32/3 or 77.33 potency. 46 WeaponDamage times 77.33 potency means your auto-attacks will utilize 35.57 (Auto-Attack value) of your WD in auto-attacks before STR and DET are calculated.