Damage 1.0/Calculations Tab

Calculating Base Damage
Note: There is now a Damage Calculator for your convenience.

Prior to beginning a base damage calculation, you must first determine whether Armor migation will be applied and whether the base damage type has any Enemy Damage Type Multipliers to be applied. Armor is is not applied to a damage calculation if:


 * 1) It is on the target's ignored damage types list (see table and explanation in damage types section)
 * 2) You are shooting any unprotected Enemy Body Parts.

Please see the respective page links above and the Enemy Vulnerabilities page for more information about how these mechanics work.

'''Remember, if the target does not apply armor to your damage type, then do not include the armor mitigation steps in your calculations. '''

Formula
Base damage calculations use the following steps. Results from each step are rounded down to the nearest integer unless otherwise noted.
 * 1) Weapon Base Damage * (1 + Damage Mods) = Modded Base Damage
 * 2) Modded Base Damage * Body Part MP = Part Damage round to the nearest integer
 * 3) Part Damage * (1 + Faction Mod) = Faction Damage
 * 4) Faction Damage * Damage Type MP = Faction Type Damage
 * 5) Faction Type Damage * Armor Mitigation = Final Base Damage

Definitions

 * Weapon Base Damage: Determined by the equipped weapon. There is no range of damage in Warframe; all weapons will always deal a set amount equal to what is listed on their tooltip.
 * Damage Mods: Determined by the rank of the equipped "damage" mod (ex: Serration, Hornet Strike, Point Blank, or Pressure Point/Killing Blow).
 * Note: Multiple mods effecting base damage will be additively applied. For example, using Point Blank and Blaze together would be calculated as: (1+Point Blank+Blaze) in the calculation above.


 * Body Part MP (Multiplier): This is the value that the target has to multiply any incoming damage to this body part (ie: head, moa fannypack). See the Enemy Body Parts page for more details.
 * Faction Mod: Determined by the rank of any mod that alters damage to a particular faction (IE: Bane, Smite, Cleanse, or Expel mods).
 * Damage Type MP(Multiplier): This is the value that the target has to multiply any incoming damage of this type (ie: corpus heads - 0x bullet to the head, 2x electric to anywhere). See the Enemy Damage Type Multipliers page for more details.
 * Armor Mitigation: This is the % that the targets armor will reduce the damage by. Remember: only apply this number if the target applies armor to your damage type and body part.
 * Armor Mitigaion = 100 / (target armor + 100)
 * Target Armor = base armor + base armor * .01 * (current level - base level) ^ 1.40
 * See the Armor page for more details.

Base Damage Mods:

 * Rifles: Serration
 * Shotguns: Blaze and Point Blank
 * Pistols: Hornet Strike
 * Melee: Killing Blow and Rending Strike (charged), Pressure Point (Regular attacks)

Calculating Elemental Mod Damage
Note: There is now a Damage Calculator for your convenience.

Each Mod damage bonus on a weapon will add a separately calculated bonus hit to an attack and will have separate damage indicators on the HUD. Different mod damages will not interfere with each other or with a weapon's normal damage. There are four types of Elemental Damage you can apply to your weapon via mods:


 * Armor Piercing - Deals extra damage to armored targets (Not to be confused with armor-ignoring attacks.)


 * Electrical - Electrocutes the target


 * Fire - Burns the target

As with base damage calculations, you must first determine whether Armor migation will be applied and whether the base damage type has any Enemy Damage Type Multipliers to be applied. Armor is is not applied to a damage calculation if: Please see the respective page links above and the Enemy Vulnerabilities page for more information about how these mechanics work.
 * Freeze - Slows target and does double damage to shields
 * 1) It is on the target's ignored damage types list (currently only applies Armor Piercing damage for mods).
 * 2) You are shooting any unprotected Enemy Body Parts.

Remember, if the target does not apply armor to your damage type, then do not include the armor mitigation steps in your calculations.

Formula
Base damage calculations use the following steps. Results from each step are rounded down to the nearest integer unless otherwise noted.
 * 1) Weapon Base Damage * (1 + Damage Mods) = Modded Base Damage
 * 2) Modded Base Damage * Elemental Mods = Elemental Damage round to nearest integer
 * 3) Elemental Damage * Body Part MP = Elemental Part Damage round to the nearest integer
 * 4) Elemental Part Damage * (1 + Faction Mod) = Faction Elemental Damage
 * 5) Faction Elemental Damage * Damage Type MP = Faction Elemental-Type Damage
 * 6) Faction Elemental-Type Damage * Armor Mitigation = Final Elemental Damage 

Definitions

 * Weapon Base Damage: determined by the equipped weapon.
 * Damage Mod value: the percent of damage added by the equipped normal type damage mod (e.g. Serration).
 * Note: Multiple mods effecting base damage will be additively applied.  For example, using Point Blank and Blaze together would be calculated as: (1+Point Blank+Blaze) in the calculation above.
 * Note: Multiple mods effecting elemental damage will be additively applied.  For example, using Hellfire and Wildfire together would be calculated as: (Hellfire+Wildfire) for Elemental Mod value in the calculation above.


 * Elemental Mod value: this value is determined by the mod rank of the elemental type mod being calculated.
 * Body Part MP (Multiplier): This is the value that the target has to multiply any incoming damage to this body part (i.e.: head, moa fannypack).
 * Faction Mod Value: Mods that add damage to a particular faction (IE: Bane, Cleanse, Expel, or Smite mods).
 * Damage Type MP (Multiplier): This is the value that the target has to multiply any incoming damage of this type (ie: corpus heads - 0x bullet to the head, 2x electric to anywhere). See the Enemy Damage Type Multipliers page for more details.
 * Armor Mitigation: This is the % that the targets armor will reduce the damage by. Remember: only apply this number if the target applies armor to your damage type and body part.
 * Armor Mitigaion = 100 / (target armor + 100)
 * Target Armor = base armor + base armor * .01 * (current level - base level) ^ 1.40
 * See the Armor page for more details.