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Jonish

Europe

0. Damage output details 10/14/2009 07:51:18 AM PDT

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hello,
i think it would be great, if played could hover mouse on his dmg output to see popup with each element.

E.G.:

Dmg: 500-800
-------------------
Phys 300-500
Fire 80-100
Frost 80-100
Lightning 1-50
Poison 39-50

What do you think? I think it's quite missing in D2, you just see it coloured by one of elements you deal but gives you no insight into your "immune-fighting-capabilities"

Rainfire

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Gateway: Northrend

1. Re: Damage output details 10/14/2009 08:17:02 AM PDT

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ive been suggesting this since day 1.

in diablo 2, you basically see only the resulting damage. everything else, the crits, the open wounds, elemental damage, etc, is nowhere visible in-game. you have to go the arreat summit to know what open wounds really means. also its obscure with which skills critical strike works. there is a huge field of improvement, so to say for diablo 3.

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2. Re: Damage output details 10/14/2009 09:33:09 AM PDT

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Seems simple enough, knowing the values instead of just the sum.

Merak

USEast

3. Re: Damage output details 10/14/2009 09:50:34 AM PDT

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This certainly has been suggested before, but since it is such a simple and much needed/wanted suggestion, it is also certainly worth suggesting again.

Thatoneguy59

USEast

4. Re: Damage output details 10/14/2009 11:41:16 AM PDT

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Definitely should be in the game.

bump

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Cpslostudent

USWest

5. Re: Damage output details 10/14/2009 06:14:59 PM PDT

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I agree.

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Ghede

Europe

6. Re: Damage output details 10/14/2009 07:16:39 PM PDT

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YES please!!

Belushi81x

USEast

8. Re: Damage output details 10/16/2009 07:07:59 PM PDT

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on behalf of all min/max-ers.... /signed...

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Vadoff

Level: 1

Gateway: Lordaeron

9. Re: Damage output details 10/16/2009 07:32:03 PM PDT

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I approve.

Bashiok

Blizzard Poster

10. Re: Damage output details 10/20/2009 03:04:12 PM PDT

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Well good news then, this has been part of the character sheet for a long time now. I don't foresee any reason why we'd remove it, but in any case just the normal disclaimer of this being a work in progress.

An example!

I have a barbarian with a halberd that adds 1-9 lightning damage in addition to its other stats. I mouse over his attack in the character sheet and it breaks down the damage for me in a tooltip:

Q u o t e:
Total Damage - "54.2 - 164.6"
- -
Physical Damage - "27.0 - 79.0"
- Physical Damage Bonus - "26.2 - 76.6"
Lightning Damage - "1.0 - 9.0"

And in researching this example I just found a bug, so it was a win-win situation for everyone.

Oh and the physical damage bonus is from Strength.

[ Post edited by Bashiok ]

Arwong

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11. Re: Damage output details 10/20/2009 03:29:26 PM PDT

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Q u o t e:
Well good news then, this has been part of the character sheet for a long time now. I don't foresee any reason why we'd remove it, but in any case just the normal disclaimer of this being a work in progress.

An example!

I have a barbarian with a halberd that adds 1-9 lightning damage in addition to its other stats. I mouse over his attack in the character sheet and it breaks down the damage for me in a tooltip:

And in researching this example I just found a bug, so it was a win-win situation for everyone.

Oh and the physical damage bonus is from Strength.

Snazzy. Will this eventually factor in hit, crit or any of those things that would affect effective damage dealt?

Bashiok

Blizzard Poster

13. Re: Damage output details 10/20/2009 04:59:43 PM PDT

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Everything that can be broken down is broken down.

Fftacticskevin

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14. Re: Damage output details 10/20/2009 05:42:51 PM PDT

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Snazzy. Will this eventually factor in hit, crit or any of those things that would affect effective damage dealt?

I assume hit and crit will be shown else where on the character sheet. Possibly working similar to how WoW does it. For example I believe "Spell Power" showed the strongest school, so if you had +2000 Spell power, +50 fire damage, and +100 frost damage, your spell power would be shown as 2100. However mousing over this number would show 2100 frost, 2050 fire and the rest at 2000. The same is done with hit and crit since talents (maybe tier bonuses too) can raise specific spell schools.

Cpslostudent

USWest

15. Re: Damage output details 10/20/2009 10:35:46 PM PDT

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Q u o t e:
Well good news then, this has been part of the character sheet for a long time now.

YAY! Thanks for chiming in, Bashiok.

So, I take it that damage is reported in a per-hit manner, rather than DPS.

Will there be an additional readout for the maximum potential DPS?

Even on spells, it might be interesting to see how much damage could be expected incorporating cooldown times and whatnot.

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2337

Europe

16. Re: Damage output details 10/21/2009 12:33:28 AM PDT

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Q u o t e:
I have a barbarian with a halberd that adds 1-9 lightning damage in addition to its other stats.

No screenshot no proof! :-)

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Major.schmerz

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Gateway: Lordaeron

17. Re: Damage output details 10/21/2009 01:14:10 AM PDT

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Q u o t e:

YAY! Thanks for chiming in, Bashiok.

So, I take it that damage is reported in a per-hit manner, rather than DPS.

Will there be an additional readout for the maximum potential DPS?

Even on spells, it might be interesting to see how much damage could be expected incorporating cooldown times and whatnot.

I don't think that this will happen because it would reduce all skills to one glare at the DPS rate. This would be a great loss for the game because all spells would have to do the same DPS in the end, otherwise nobody would use them ;) And so nobody would experimentate with skills and combinations, which is the contraproductive to the aim of Blizz... I think... ^^

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Jonish

Europe

18. Re: Damage output details 10/21/2009 08:41:26 AM PDT

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Thank you all for interest, of course, thank you Bashiok for clarifying situation!

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